Mikhail Zhvanetsky died

Today, November 6, at the age of 86, a satirist writer Mikhail Zhvanetsky died.

It is reported by RBC .

Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetskiy was born in 1934 in Odessa, graduated from the Odessa Institute of Marine Fleet Engineers (1956), after which he worked in the Odessa port with a mechanic on cranes.

During the years of study, he wrote and performed satirical miniatures and monologues in the student theater, where Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko also performed. In 1963, during a tour in Odessa of the Leningrad Theater, Miniatures met Arkady Raikin, who took his works to the theater’s repertoire, and in 1964 he invited him to his theater as the head of the literary part.

The performance of Arkady Raikin “Avas”, “Deficiency”, “Age of Technology”, “In the Greek Hall” and other miniatures of Mikhail Zhvanetsky gained all -Union fame. Also, during the period of work at the Arkady Raikin Theater, the writer wrote more than three hundred miniatures and monologues for Kartsev and Ilchenko, with whom he opened the Miniature Theater under the Philharmonic in 1970 in Odessa.

Later, Mikhail Zhvanetsky himself read his texts at the Miniature Theater in Odessa, in the Moscow Hermitage Theater and at other sites. In the 1970s and 1980s, tape recordings of his performances diverged throughout the country in many copies and were very popular.

In 1988, Mikhail Zhvanetsky founded and headed the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, in 1990 opened the World Odessa Club. In 2002-2019 he was a permanent leading monthly television program “The Datesner in the Country” on the Russia-1 channel. In October 2020, he announced the decision to complete the concert activity due to health status.