Yevgeny Petrosyan

Yevgeny Petrosyan Waganowitsch (Russian: Евгений Ваганович Петросян, born September 16, 1945 in Baku ) is one of the most famous comedians of the former USSR.

The son of the mathematician Wagan Mironovich ( Ваган Миронович, 1903-1962 ) and Bella Grigorevna ( Белла Григорьевна, 1910-1967 ) already operated at a young age in amateur theater and performed in clubs and houses of culture. There he read, among other poems and fables before, played skits and performed concerts as master of ceremonies. He graduated from the school in 1961, moved to Moscow and began to act professionally. Between 1969 and 1989, Petrosyan worked as master of ceremonies at the State Orchestra of the RSFSR. In addition, he joined with several other comedians on stage at shows and in television programs. From 1994 on the state Petrossian moderated Perwy channel the weekly broadcast Smechopanorama (Russian: Смехопанорама; Lach- Panorama). Between 2002 and 2005 he was the author of the program Shutka sa schutkoi (Russian: Шутка за шуткой; joke after joke), also on Perwy channel.

On 17 September 2005 protested a crowd consisting of first-year students of the Moscow State University, aspiring lawyers of the private Moscow University for the Humanities (Russian: Московский гуманитарный университет - МосГУ ) and passing adolescents, on the Slawjanskaja Square in Moscow and called the settling of the Petrosian broadcasts stop ( Аншлаг ) and Smechopanorama and replacing them with documentaries.