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Clown Oleg Popov died
The clown Oleg Popov has died. This is reported by TASS with reference to the director of the Great Moscow Circus, trainer Edgard Zapashny.
He was 86 years old.
Popov died in Rostov-on-Don, where he was on tour. The initial TASS report said that Popov died in Germany, where he lived in recent years.
Oleg Popov has passed away. The general director of the Russian State Circus, Dmitry Ivanov, just called me and informed me about this, ”said Zapashny.
- Oleg Popov is one of the most famous Soviet circus artists. He became famous in the 1950s through his work with the clown Pencil (Mikhail Rumyantsev) at the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow. Since the 1970s, according to TASS, Popov worked at the Great Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue, and after the collapse of the USSR he moved to Germany, where he worked under the pseudonym "Happy Hans".