Yevgeny Vaganovich Petrosian

Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Евгений Ваганович Петросян
Transcr. :	Yevgeny Vaganovich Petrosian

Evgeni Waganowitsch Petrosjan ( Russian Евгений Ваганович Петросян , born September 16, 1945 in Baku ) is one of the greatest Russian comedians and one of the most famous from the times of the former USSR .

Life

The son of the Armenian mathematician Vagan Mironowitsch Petrossjan ( Ваган Миронович , 1903–1962) and Bella Grigoryevna ( Белла Григорьевна , 1910–1967), who was of Jewish origin, was active in amateur theater and at a young age. Among other things, he read poems and fables there, played skits and gave concerts as an emcee . He graduated from school in 1961, moved to Moscow and began to perform professionally. Between 1969 and 1989 Petrossjan worked as an emcee in the State Orchestra of the RSFSR . He has also appeared with various other comedians on stage shows and television programs. From 1994, Petrosian moderated the weekly program Smechopanorama ( Russian Смехопанорама ; laughing panorama) on the state's First Channel . Between 2002 and 2005 he was the author of the program Schutka sa schutkoi (Russian Шутка за шуткой ; joke on joke), also on Perwy kanal (ORT).

controversy

On September 17, 2005, a crowd of first-year students from Lomonosov University , prospective lawyers from the private Moscow University of the Humanities and young people passing by protested on Slavonic Square in Moscow, demanding that his programs Stop ( Аншлаг ) and Smechopanorama and her be canceled Replace with documentaries . Their protest is not directed against Petrosian personally, but against the programs themselves, "because, due to the lack of choice, many people had no idea that there was also humor of a different quality".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ В Москве прошла акция протеста против программ Евгения Петросяна. 2005, Retrieved April 16, 2016 (Russian).