ARMEN JIGARKHANYAN ONE OF RUSSIA’S BEST PERSONALITIES

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.03.2009 19:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Famous theater and cinema actor Armen Jigarkhanyan
was included in Best People of Russia 09 Federal Encyclopedia,
published by SPETS ADRES, RIA Novosti reported.

Armen Jigarkhanyan, born on Oct. 3, 1935 is one of the most popular
Armenian actors working in Russia. Jigarkhanyan worked as assistant
cameraman at Armenfilm studios in 1953-1954. He began his acting
career in 1955 at the Russian Stanislavsky Theater in Yerevan, and
in 1967 moved to the Lenkom Theatre in Moscow. In 1969 he joined the
Mayakovsky Academic Theater. Dzhigarkhanyan was awarded the Armenian
Republican State Prize in 1975 for Triangle and again in 1979 for Snow
in Mourning. He appeared as a chief gangster in the 1979 TV series
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed. In 1981 he plays a leading role
as nazi Max Richard in an international Cast in Russian-French Movie
Teheran 43.Dzigarkhanyan was given the title of People’s Artist of
the USSR in 1985. In 1996 he founded his own theater in Moscow.