Yan Arlazorov


Yan Mayorovich Arlazorov was a Soviet and Russian theater actor, stand up comedian and entertainer, Honored Artist of Russia, winner of the All-Russian Competition of Variety Artists.

Biography

Born in a Jewish family. The family was not the only child, the younger brother Leonid — 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 .
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.

Death

Arlazorov died on March 7, 2009, at the age of 62, after a severe and prolonged illness. The reason for the tragic outcome was Arlazorov’s unwillingness to operate for a long time he tried to heal with starvation and went to healers. Farewell to Yan was held at the State Variety Theater. March 11 was buried at Vostryakovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Personal life

He was married to an actress of theater and cinema Yola Sanko. Have a daughter Alyona.