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He was pure cameraman: character multiplied by intuition, inborn standard of vision and self-educated knowledge (his preferred reading long consisted of memoirs and nonfiction, scientific literature, travel diaries – "making life" out of dry fact), and freedom. He seems to have been born just for the Russian film school of those years, when pictorial excellence could bear more truth than the "ideological content". Veksler perceived his profession as the foreground one for filmmaking and followed the classical idea of "own style": subject the vision to the story and let oneself dissolve in it. To him, the main and most difficult task for cameraman was the choosing of the range of close-up: face landscape, still life; this he considered the "basis of camera directing"; the abundance of close-up portraits (some of which could be considered too close) is one more manifestation of his credo: this profession belongs to humanities.

YURI VEKSLER
Born on 4 February 1940 in Leningrad.
Worked as cameraman for films: "Private Zbruyev's Seven Brides" (1971, with D.Dolinin, director V.Melnikov), "Hello and Goodbye" (1972, director V.Melnikov), "Xenia, Feodor's Beloved Wife" (1974, director V.Melnikov ), "The Elder Son" (1975, director V.Melnikov), "The Untransferrable Key" (1976, with D.Dolinin, director D.Asanova), "The Marriage" (1977, director V.Melnikov), "Holiday in September" (1979, director V.Melnikov), TV series about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979-1986, director I.Maslennikov), "Queen of Spades" (1982, director I.Maslennikov),"Lads" (1983, director D.Asanova), "Sharlotte's Necklace" (1984, director E.Tatarsky), "Winter Cherry" (1985, director I.Maslennikov), "Royal Hunt" (1990, director V.Melnikov), "Loch the Lord of the Water " (1991, director A.Tigay) and others. Awarded USSR State Prize for the film "Lads", Lenfilm's Moskvin best camera work prize for "First Meeting, Last Meeting" (1986, director V.Melnikov).
Died on 29 September 1991. Buried on Sestroretskoye cemetery.