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Dec 01, 1945 Moscow, Russia 78 years old
Russian actor and comedian
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About Gennady Khazanov
- Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov (Russian: ?????´??? ??´???????? ????´???; born 1 December 1945) is a Russian stand-up comedian and part-time actor.
- His work includes parodies of Russian and Soviet politicians, and mockery of various sub-cultural groups in modern Russia.
- After graduating from the Moscow Circus School in 1969 Khazanov worked as a master of ceremonies in Leonid Utyosov Orchestra.
- He began his solo career in 1973 at Moscontsert, a Moscow state concert organization.
- He gained early success with monologues of a culinary school student written by Lion Izmailov and Iurii Volovich, and of a brave parrot who cannot stop telling the truth written by Arkady Khait.
- In 1997 he became artistic director of the Moscow Variety Theatre.
- In 1999, he was president of the Security Foundation of the Russian Jewish Community, which was set up to coordinate action against antisemitism in Moscow.He is an acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of Putin's position on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
