On the morning of November 5, 2020, at the age of 69, after a serious and prolonged illness, an expert doctor of the highest category, calligrapher, monogram artist, writer, poet, public figure, founder of the Yaroslavl Historical and Genealogical Society, founder of the author's school “Russian Calligraphy and ligature "and the Museum of Russian National Writing Yuri Ivanovich Arutsev passed away.