Born April 4, 1967· Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
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Born in Leningrad, he combined early success in sambo, judo and gymnastics-earning a junior USSR championship-with studies in automation before switching to the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, where a severe illness left him with a lifelong facial squint; he graduated in 1991 and began work at Saint Petersburg’s Vremya Theatre and as a radio presenter, later being named the nation’s to…
