The satirist writer Anatoly Trushkin died

In Moscow, at the 79th year of life, a satirist writer Anatoly Trushkin died, the Base and the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.

According to publications, it was treated for more than a month of coronavirus infection, and for more than three weeks, having laid in intensive care.

Trushkin was the author and editor on the central television of the USSR, wrote several books. Nakhim Shifrin, Mikhail Evdokimov, Roman Kartsev, Klara Novikova and Vladimir Vinokur performed with the sketches of his authorship.

He was the host of the program on the TVC, wrote several scripts.