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Birth Name: Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov
Born: 15 March 1935 Died: 25 July 1972
Country of origin: 
Russian Federation
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Russian star of first magnitude
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Famous Armenians worldwide
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Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He started his career as a boxer. In 1955 he joined the State School of Circus Art, Clownship department. After graduation in 1959 he moved to Yerevan and joined the Armenian state circus.
He was one of the first Soviet clowns to create the poetic, intellectual clownery, which made spectators think, not only laugh. After initial incomprehension, his popularity grew immensely. After that he was invited to work in cinema. His first film, A Path to the Arena, was in fact about himself.
By the end of 1960s he was known as one of the best clowns in the
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1. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
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2. Happy Go Lucky (1972)
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4. Aybolit-66 (1967)
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