Yan Arlazorov

Yan Mayorovich Arlazorov (Russian: Ян Майорович Арлазоров; August 26, 1947 – March 7, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian theater actor, comedian and entertainer, Honored Artist of Russia (1997), winner of the All-Russian Competition of Variety Artists. Born in a Jewish family. The family was not the only child, the younger brother Leonid (born March 8, 1956) — a mathematician, Candidate of Sciences.

Is he went to school, where was the first school theater in Moscow. According to him, he had a wonderful teacher who allowed her to do everything to express herself. And already from junior classes he dreamed of becoming an actor. Since he was very fat in childhood, he became involved in sports — wrestling, swimming, and tennis.

Jan graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, worked at the Central Children's Theater. From the late 1970s he served in the Mossovet Theatre, in the early 1990s he switched to the stage.

In the late 1990s, he conducted broadcast People's Ambulance on the AvtoRadio radio station.

He starred in several films. He worked in humorous TV program Anshlag (author and presenter Regina Dubovitskaya).

In 1995, he won the Arkady Raikin Cup at the Comedy International Festival in Riga.

The actor wrote his monologues, as a rule, himself, but he also resorted to the help of professional variety playwrights — Anatoly Trushkin, Semyon Altov, Efim Smolin, Mariana Belenky, Alexander Dudoladov.

In 2008, President of Russia Vladimir Putin was awarded the Order of Honour.