Urin began his theatre career in 1973. In 1981 he moved to
Moscow where he became in charge of the
Youth and Puppet Theatres Department in
Theater Union of Russia. Four years later, he graduated from the
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and from 1987 to 1996 was the secretary at the Theater Union of Russia where he also worked as deputy President. Prior to it, in 1991, he became First Deputy President there, but all of the rankings ended for him in 1996. In 1994 he was behind the creation of the
Golden Mask award as a
National Theatre Award. In 1995 he became general manager of
Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko and two years later held the same position at the
International Festival of Contemporary Dance. In 2013, after the scandals inside the Bolshoi theatre and the attack on Artistic Director Sergei Filin, he was appointed as General Director of the
Bolshoi Theatre, replacing
Anatoly Iksanov. July 8, 2017, three days before the first night Urin called off the premiere of a ballet
Nureyev about legendary dancer
Rudolf Nureyev. He claimed it was due to the bad quality of the dancing. It was the first time a show has been pulled in such a way since the collapse of the Soviet Union, sparking rumours about the motivation behind it. == Political involvement ==