Master of artistic speech expression, laureate of the All-Russian competitions of artists- reciters (devoted to Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and to the 50th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War/WWII). The author and performer of literary compositions:

"They were born in the 37th", "Crossroads of fate", "Trifles of life", "Literary Arbat Street", "As freedom sower in the wasteland", "Folk path", "Seminary Sketches". He was the first to present two research papers on the recital stage: "Two Russian Genius Scientists" (about the lives of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Chizhevsky) and "108 Minutes and a Lifetime" (about Yuri Gagarin and Sergey Korolev). For these papers, he was awarded a governmental award - the jubilee medal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight.

Yuri Golyshev was the first to turn his attention to the literary works of the following writers:

V.Bykov ("War Stories" – 1972),

V.Vysotsky (program "The Poet Vladimir Vysotsky" – 1982, as well as the performance "I was the soul of a bad society"),

A. Solzhenitsyn (performance "One Day of Alexander Isaevich" – 1990 and the reading version of "The Oak and the Calf").

The head of the TV projects "Sentimental Education", "Reading aloud".

The author of the plays "Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century" (about Alexander Chizhevsky), "Niccolo Machiavelli", the screenplay "Paradise Apples".