Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Mikhail Zhvanetsky
Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Mikhail Zhvanetsky, 22 January 2002
Birth name Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky
Born 6 March 1934 (1934-03-06) (age 77)
Odessa, Soviet Union
Genres Satire
Website jvanetsky.ru

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Жванецький,Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Жване́цкий, transliterated: Mykhailo Mykhailovych Zhvanetsky) (born 6 March 1934, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a famous Russian-language, Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian satiric writer and a stand-up comedian. Born in Odessa, where he trained as an engineer, he is best known for his monologues (from Soviet time) performed on a stage by himself and by other actors in which he targeted different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet reality and everyday life.

Zhvanetsky's monologues and sketches were performed by Arkady Raikin, Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko. He joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1978 and has authored several books of humor and satire.

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Zhvanetsky was granted the following honorary titles and decorated with the following orders:

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