Eldar Ryazanov. Photo from Eldar-ryazanov.ru In Moscow, at the 89th year of his life, film director Eldar Ryazanov died. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by his grandson Dmitry Trojanovsky. Over the past year, Ryazanov has repeatedly been hospitalized. In November last year, the director was delivered to the Burdenko Research Institute in serious condition, from where he was discharged in January 2015. In August 2015, Ryazanov got to the hospital in the center of Bakulev.