The Ponomarenko brothers are twins. The Ponomarenko brothers: biography, TV and pop activities, interesting moments from the personal lives of artists

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Plan:

Introduction

• 1 Biography facts
• 2 Objects of parodies
• 3 Press
• 4 Criticism

Introduction

Brothers Ponomarenko (June 13, 1967( 19670613 ) , Rostov-on-Don [ ]) - twin brothers: Valery Ponomarenko - a professional drama theater actor and Alexander Ponomarenko - musician, guitarist.

1. Biography facts

Comedian brothers Ponomarenko came to the stage one after another, or rather, one brought the other into the genre. Since childhood, Valery Ponomarenko loved to parody his acquaintances, and was tempered by theatrical skits. They began to invite him to participate in concerts, and then a brilliant idea came to his mind: to involve his brother Alexander in all this. The brothers began their television career under the leadership of Yevgeny Petrosyan in “Distorted Mirror”.

Alexander and Valery are laureates of the International Competition “Cup of Humor-99” and the festival of satire and humor “Golden Ostap-2001”.

2. Objects of parodies

• Alexander Abdulov
• Nikolay Baskov
• Mikhail Boyarsky
• Leonid Brezhnev
• George W. Bush
• Gennady Vetrov
• Vitaly Vulf
• Yuri Galtsev
• Erast Garin
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Vladimir Danilets
• Dmitry Dibrov
• Nikolay Drozdov
• Regina Dubovitskaya
• Mikhail Evdokimov
• Boris Yeltsin
• Mikhail Zhvanetsky
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky
• Mikhail Zadornov
• Roman Kartsev
• Evgeniy Kiselev
• Joseph Kobzon
• Victor Koklyushkin
• Fedor Konyukhov
• Vladimir Kuzmin
• Evgeniy Leonov
• Lev Leshchenko
• Alexander Lukashenko
• Andrey Malakhov
• Alexander Maslyakov
• Georgy Millyar
• Andrey Mironov
• Vladimir Moiseenko
• Dmitry Nagiev
• Lev Novozhenov
• Ilya Oleynikov
• Anatoly Papanov
• Evgeny Petrosyan
• Vladimir Putin
• Edward Radzinsky
• Alexander Rosenbaum
• Verka Serduchka
• Joseph Stalin
• Yuri Stoyanov
• Semyon Farada
• Gennady Khazanov
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Yuri Shevchuk
• Efim Shifrin
• Savik Shuster
• Leonid Yakubovich
• Leonid Agutin
• Igor Nikolaev

3. Press

The Ponomarenko brothers easily entered the elite of Russian humor: they won a humor competition and were liked by a large army of spectators. Now the life of the twin brothers is literally “in full swing”: tours, concerts, filming of “Morning Mail”. But as soon as the “pause” comes, the artists rush to their native land - to the city of Rostov-on-Don, where their families and friends are waiting for them. Alisa ZHURAVLEVA managed to meet the Ponomarenko brothers on one of these visits. - There is an opinion that comedians have sadness in their souls. Is this about you or do you try to go through life laughing? Alexander: - The comedian saves all his emotions for the concert. You “splashed” positive energy into the hall and “withdrew into yourself” to accumulate strength for the next performance. It happens that after the sixth or seventh concert there is no “recharge”, the courage disappears. Maybe that's why comedians smile only at concerts and posters. As for us, we try to be cheerful at all times. Especially Valera, he often jokes... Valery: - Yes, there was a funny incident. A commercial was filmed in Novocherkassk, in which I played the role of a hedgehog grandmother. I was given cinematic makeup, and no one could recognize Valery Ponomarenko. The filming took place in the park; according to the script, it was a forest. I decided to rehearse: I climbed a tree and disappeared behind the branches... At that time, people were walking in the park, walking back and forth past the tree on which I was sitting. I decided not to waste time and repeat the text. Now turn on your imagination... You are walking at a calm pace, admiring nature, trees, and suddenly, out of nowhere, a voice is heard: “Kitty, you are my cat. Shoo, shoo...I smell the Russian spirit!”, you raise your head, and at the top of the tree Baba Yaga is shaking her finger. Alexander: - This is how Valera makes fun of her! - If Valera likes to amuse people in her free time, then what is Alexander doing at this moment? Alexander: - Oh! When Valera sits on a tree and scares people, I do classical yoga. Well, but seriously, Valera also loves sports. Valery: I prefer tennis and running. As they say: “if you want to be healthy, run, if you want to be happy, run!” We also practice dousing with cold water at any time of the year. - So you prefer active rest? Valery: It varies, but mostly it’s active: we like to visit a gorge, walk to a spring, and take a dip. But sometimes laziness takes over, and then you can lie down on the sofa with a book. Rest is, first of all, solitude. Even my family and I go to the sea in winter: there is no one, all the gorges are free (Laughs. ). - Alexander, have you been given any unusual gifts? - They gave a goat, a dog, and a pig... God forbid, this year they give a live rat! Of course, it’s nice when a gift is given from the heart. Recently, after a concert, a fan presented us with a string bag of dried fish and beer. The man thought that we needed it, that he made us happy with his surprise. Of course, it’s nice that the gift is sincere (Smiles), but we don’t drink beer, we don’t eat dried fish. - Now about women... What should she ideally be like for you? Valery: Internal beauty comes first, external beauty comes second. I love watching old films “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”, where the heroines are naturally beautiful and modest. These qualities are important for a woman, and not least wisdom. I don’t understand the modern style: protruding navels, profanity among young people, in particular among girls. This is of no use. Alexander: I believe that a woman should be the keeper of the home. Nowadays it is fashionable to live alone and raise children on your own. Of course, men influenced this behavior, but this is a disease of the entire society, it needs to be cured. - Do you often visit Rostov, or has life in Moscow already gotten too long? Alexander: We have families in Rostov, work in Moscow, so we spend any free time at home - in Rostov, and in this short period of time we try to do household chores, meet with friends, and teach our growing children about life... Valery : Yes, I have 3 heroes growing up - one is 17, he is going to follow in my acting footsteps, the other is still studying at school, and his acting talents are already showing in full swing, and the third is not even a year old. Wait and see...

"Teleweek" magazine.

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4. Criticism

“Another interesting phenomenon is certain Ponomarenko brothers. Firstly, these brothers are extremely similar, and you can only come to terms with the idea that there are really two of them, and not one, if you are confident in your own absolute sobriety and clarity of mind. Secondly, I first came across them on NTV, in the humorous (as it were) program “Happy New Year”. There, again, they portrayed the heads of the country. One was Gorbachev, the other was Stalin. Then two acrobat brothers somehow unnoticed ended up on RTR, in a special edition of “Full House” for the old New Year. There they performed an amazing skit on the fresh theme of “fathers and sons.” So they were sitting next to a guy with a player and a guy with a beard. And they communicate without hearing each other. What follows are the following dialogues, which are delightful in their senselessness:

Grandfather: Where can I find metal?

Young: Am I a metalhead? Does Metallica bother you?

Grandfather: The sweatshirt doesn’t keep you warm.

Young: yes, and Hi-Fi doesn’t warm me up.

Then the “young” one talks about the Internet, and the old one hears “boarding school”.

Grandfather: Well, how was it with you at the boarding school?

Young: On the Internet? Cool! You can even go to the American President’s website.

Grandfather: Yes, the American president doesn’t give a shit about everything.

Gee-gee, ha-ha, knock-knock, sit, I'll open it myself. An interesting example of how a joke can be born already with a beard.”

- Valentina Lvova. “Knock-knock, sit, I’ll open it myself,” newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda.”

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March 29th, 2014

Among fans of I.V. Stalin, various versions are popular about his so-called. "successor". They are usually associated with that group of relatively young leaders who emerged during the war and post-war years and became members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, elected at the 19th Party Congress in October 1952. Some of them subsequently followed Khrushchev and, after his removal, began to rule the Soviet Union. Others did not support Khrushchev and were gradually pushed into secondary positions by him, and then hastily sent into retirement. The ending is sad, although not tragic, as was the case for the generation of the 1890s.

One of the versions about “Stalin’s successor” is associated with P.K. Ponomarenko, a bright representative of this generation. I first became acquainted with this curious hypothesis after reading an interview with I.A. Benediktova.

“Stalin soon selected a worthy, from his point of view, successor, at least for one of the highest posts. I mean Panteleimon Kondratievich Ponomarenko, the former first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, who during the war headed the headquarters of the partisan movement at the Supreme Headquarters Headquarters. Possessing a strong and independent character, Panteleimon Kondratievich was at the same time a collectivist and a democrat to the core, he knew how to win over and organize the friendly work of a wide circle of people, Stalin apparently also took into account the fact that Ponomarenko was not part of his inner circle and had his own. position and never tried to shift responsibility onto the shoulders of others.

Document on the appointment of P.K. Ponomarenko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, had already been endorsed by several members of the Politburo, and only the death of Stalin prevented the fulfillment of his will. Having become the First Secretary of the Central Committee, Khrushchev, who, naturally, was aware of everything, took the necessary steps to push Ponomarenko further away - first to Kazakhstan, then, in 1955, to diplomatic work, ambassador to Poland, and then to the Netherlands . However, he did not work here for long either - the dangerous “competitor” was quickly sent to a pension, which was very modest and without the benefits due to him for public service. A simple, modest and unpretentious man in his personal life, burdened with worries about his family and friends, he literally eked out a semi-beggarly existence when, finally, after Khrushchev’s resignation, his friends, turning to the Central Committee, achieved decent provision for his old age.”

Besides Benediktov, the existence of such a paper is mentioned by A.I. Lukyanov in his article "The Return of Stalin".

“In this light, Stalin’s announcement of resignation at the Plenum of the Central Committee, held after the 19th Party Congress, was rather the apogee of his struggle for the renewal of all aspects of the post-war life of the country. Then, as you know, the Presidium of the Central Committee expanded two and a half times - to 25 people. It included a significant number of representatives of the younger generation, party and economic workers from the localities. The opportunity arose for a much broader collective consideration and solution of the most important issues in the life of the country.

And here Stalin had to solve a key problem - who could be nominated for the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Stalin had been keeping an eye on this man for a long time, as if saving him for the future. He was Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko - the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, the head of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement during the war, a man who had gone through a good school of party and government work, and a widely educated political figure. The decision to appoint Ponomarenko Chairman of the Council of Ministers had already been agreed upon with the majority of members of the then party leadership, and only the unexpected death of Stalin prevented his will from being carried out. Although it is quite possible that this personnel decision could have brought Stalin’s death closer, since his closest circle, and especially Beria and Khrushchev, were much more impressed by Malenkov, who was obedient to them.

Immediately after Stalin’s death, the “old guard” removed Ponomarenko from the Secretariat of the Central Committee, appointing him Minister of Culture, and from 1955 sending him abroad for a long time (to Poland, India, Nepal, the Netherlands, IAEA).”

As far as I know, no one has found the paper on the appointment of Ponomarenko as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, but the version is already widely circulated in the media - for example, Regnum writes “the failed head of the Soviet government Panteleimon Ponomarenko.” Another piece of evidence about Ponomarenko as “Stalin’s successor” was published in the “Red Star” in the issue of February 11, 2006.

"And yet it was he who led the party after Stalin... Was there another person whom Stalin saw as his successor? There are now a lot of legends and gossip on this topic.

As far as we know, Stalin, in particular, was guided by Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. He was a special person: he came to party work from a teaching position, a candidate of sciences. He mastered the business brilliantly, was distinguished by amazing honesty and responsibility, and was a deep analyst. In 1938, he headed the party organization of Belarus, from the beginning of the war he was a member of the military council of a number of fronts, in 1942 - 1944 he headed the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, then headed both the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers of Belarus. When Stalin was traveling by special train to the Potsdam Conference, he stopped in Minsk, where he spent about 14 hours - Ponomarenko reported to him everything in detail about the republic... Stalin invited Panteleimon Kondratievich to go with him to Berlin as a representative of the leadership of the partisan movement, but he answered: “I I would ask you not to touch me - I have so much to do here! And I’ll just sit there...” Stalin said: “If you find it necessary, fly in, we will find a place for you.”

Ponomarenko soon became Secretary of the Central Committee, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and then his star set...

Of course, because Khrushchev was his opponent! They fought while they were still first secretaries in the republics, in particular on border issues. Khrushchev wanted to transfer part of Belarus to Ukraine, but Ponomarenko did not allow it. Having come to power, Khrushchev immediately appointed Ponomarenko Minister of Culture, then First Secretary to Kazakhstan, and in 1955 sent him as Ambassador to Poland."

How does he know this, General I.P. Potapov, unfortunately, did not specify whether he heard about this “then” or read it somewhere in the post-perestroika years.

Brief biographical information on Ponomarenko:

Ponomarenko Panteleimon Kondratievich (27.07 (09.08).1902-18.01.1984),
party member since 1925, member of the Central Committee in 1939-1961, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee 10/16/52-03/06/53. gg. (candidate 03/06/53-02/14/56), Secretary of the Central Committee 07/01/48-03/06/53
Born on Hut. Shelkovsky, Belorechensky district, Krasnodar region. Ukrainian.
In 1932 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers.
In 1918 and 1932-1936. in the Red Army.
Since 1919 he worked in oil fields and railway transport.
Since 1922 at Komsomol work, since 1936 at engineering work.
In 1938, instructor, deputy. head Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
In 1938-1947 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belarus, at the same time in 1944-1948. Pred. Council of People's Commissars (Council of Ministers) of the Byelorussian SSR, in 1942-1944. beginning The central headquarters of the partisan movement at the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, was a member of the military councils of a number of fronts.
Lieutenant General (1943).
In 1948-1953 Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CPSU), at the same time since 1950, Minister of Procurement of the USSR.
In 1953-1954. Minister of Culture of the USSR.
In 1954-1955 First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.
Since 1955, USSR Ambassador to Poland, since 1957 - in India and Nepal, since 1959 - in the Netherlands.
Since 1962, representative of the USSR at the IAEA, then at the Institute of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.
Retired since 1978.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 1st-4th convocations.
He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

In the few memoirs, Ponomarenko’s personality is characterized very positively.

"Since 1948, Ponomarenko was the Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, at the same time the Minister of Procurement, and from 1953 - the Minister of Culture of the USSR. Soon he was sent away from Moscow, to Kazakhstan, as the First Secretary of the Party Central Committee. I am not a particular expert on Ponomarenko’s personality, since the distance there was a lot between him and me, the secretary of the Akmola regional committee of the Komsomol. Nevertheless, I formed a certain opinion about him. I attended three meetings of the party and economic activists and at the congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, where Ponomarenko gave speeches.

The very external impression of his personality caused people to associate him with the leader. Everyone rose from their seats in a single impulse and applauded him loudly when he appeared at a congress or meeting of activists. Dressed in a Stalinist-era jacket, short in stature, with a Socratic forehead, he influenced the audience like a magnet.

He always spoke without text, with a small piece of paper - a plan for the speech. They listened to him with great attention, holding their breath. Ponomarenko spoke logically, clearly, his words reached the consciousness of every person. He talked about simple things, about the needs and demands of working people. His performances lasted 1.5 - 2 hours, and it did not tire anyone.

He had a habit - before going to a meeting of the activists, he would visit stores and see what and how they were selling. And this time he did not change his rule. I traveled around Akmolinsk, went shopping and saw a depressing picture there: the shelves were half empty, there were no basic goods. Moreover, there are no goods that do not need to be transported far away; they can be manufactured locally.

Ponomarenko practiced similar visits in Almaty. I went into one of the stores and decided to buy some candy. “Where should you sleep?” - asks the seller. “If you don’t have a bag,” says Ponomarenko, “pour it into your hat.” There was a big conversation with the Minister of Commerce about this candy hat. This case became known throughout the republic."

Ponomarenko is now almost completely forgotten, like other people from his cohort. Of the modern historians, perhaps only G.A. studied it. Kumanev, who knew him personally and published something on this topic in the magazine "Domestic History" (Nos. 5 and 6 for 1998). There is an interesting episode related to a personal clash between Ponomarenko and Khrushchev, then respectively the leaders of Belarus and Ukraine, over the border.

“Just six months after this speech, the world witnessed the collapse of the Polish state, confused in its relations with Berlin, and on September 17, 1939, units of the Red Army crossed the state border of the USSR, occupying the lands of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. All ethnographic maps of Europe clearly showed the boundaries of settlement of Belarusians and Ukrainians were drawn, and therefore Ponomarenko, in his conversation with RAS academician G.A. Kumanev, recalled: “I did not think that ... any complications could arise” when establishing “the administrative border between the new regions of the country.”

However, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine N.S. Khrushchev presented his project of demarcation between the new western lands of the country, according to which almost all of them went to the Ukrainian SSR. On November 22, 1939, Khrushchev and Ponomarenko were summoned to the Kremlin to see Stalin. Even before the meeting began in Stalin's office, Khrushchev attacked the project presented by Ponomarenko. “Who cooked up this nonsense for you and how can you justify it?!” he shouted.

Stalin received the two first secretaries, saying: “Great, hetmans, how about the border? Haven’t you fought yet? Haven’t you started a war over borders? Haven’t you concentrated your troops? Or have you agreed peacefully?”

After carefully studying and comparing the two projects for the administrative border of the republics, Stalin mainly supported Ponomarenko’s proposal. True, Stalin made an amendment, drawing in one place a border north of the one indicated on Ponomarenko’s map. Stalin explained this by the “desire of the Ukrainians to get some forest.”

During lunch after the meeting, Khrushchev did not hide his resentment. Ponomarenko recalled: “You could feel from Nikita Sergeevich’s face and mood that he was dissatisfied with this outcome and he would remember this story for a long time.”

The appointment of Ponomarenko as head of the TsShPD was also not without a scandal - the NKVD (Beria) believed that their department should deal with the partisan movement, and Khrushchev, of course, wanted to see there a representative of Ukraine, not Belarus. But Ponomarenko was appointed. As Stalin emphasized, the partisan movement is a party, political matter, and not a security service. The security officers did not forgive Ponomarenko for this even decades later. So, at the insistence of I.G. Ponomarenko's book, which was being prepared for publication, was heavily cut because it contained “secret information.” Personally, Ponomarenko had a conflict with Starinov during the latter’s work at the TsShPD.

I once had a chance to personally meet with Kumanev, and I asked him a question whether Ponomarenko could be Stalin’s successor. He answered in the sense that Ponomarenko, in terms of his personal and professional qualities, could replace Stalin, but, as I understand it, Kumanev knew nothing about the “successor” version.

Most likely, Ponomarenko as Stalin’s successor is another myth born of the inflamed historical consciousness of Russians at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, which is frantically looking for various kinds of alternatives to the current situation in the country, rushing from one extreme to another (“if only the whites had won, then we would live! Now if Trotsky defeated Stalin, how good it would be if the Germans defeated ours, now we would drink Bavarian beer!”, etc.) But the temptation, of course, is very great - to see a better man in Khrushchev’s place! cultured and intelligent, who would lead a different policy.

Ponomarenko brothers(June 13, 1967, Novocherkassk) - twin brothers Valery Sergeevich Ponomarenko, professional drama theater actor, and Alexander Sergeevich Ponomarenko, musician, guitarist.

Biography

Ponomarenko came to the stage one after another, or rather, one brought the other into the genre. Since childhood, Valery Ponomarenko loved to parody his acquaintances, and was tempered by theatrical skits. They began to invite him to participate in concerts, and then a brilliant idea came to his mind: to involve his brother Alexander in all this. The brothers began their television career under the leadership of Yevgeny Petrosyan in “Distorted Mirror”.

From 2000 to 2001, the Ponomarenko brothers hosted the all-Russian TV-Bingo-Show lottery on the RTR television channel.

Alexander and Valery are laureates of the International Competition “Cup of Humor-99” and the festival of satire and humor “Golden Ostap-2001”.

They host the “Morning Mail” program on the Rossiya TV channel.

In 2013, Valery Ponomarenko took part in the parody show “Repeat!” on Channel One. In the fifth issue, in addition to his act, he and his brother Alexander participated in the act of Anna Bolshova, who made a parody of Margarita Terekhova (they portrayed Mikhail Boyarsky in two roles - D’Artagnan and Teodoro). In October 2014, Alexander Ponomarenko became a participant in another parody show - “Variety Theater”.

Personal life

According to Alexander Ponomarenko, he is considered the eldest, but they themselves do not know which of them is the eldest. Valery has a wife Elena and three sons: Alexey, Arkady and Yaroslav. Alexander has a wife Anna and two children: daughter Lyubov and son German.

Objects of parodies

Parodied by A. Ponomarenko

• Leonid Agutin
• Nikolay Baskov
• Alexey Buldakov
• Gennady Vetrov
• Vitaly Vulf
• Dmitry Dibrov
• Regina Dubovitskaya
• Boris Yeltsin
• Mikhail Zadornov
• Victor Zinchuk
• Victor Koklyushkin
• Alexander Lukashenko
• Pavel Lyubimtsev
• Alexander Maslyakov
• Andrey Mironov
• Dmitry Nagiev
• Lev Novozhenov
• Ilya Oleynikov
• Vladimir Putin
• Verka Serduchka
• Willy Tokarev
• Victor Chernomyrdin
• Yuri Shevchuk
• Savik Shuster

Parodies V. Ponomarenko

• Yuri Antonov
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Mikhail Boyarsky
• George W. Bush
• Vladimir Vinokur
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Yuri Galtsev
• Nikolay Drozdov
• Boris Yeltsin
• Mikhail Zhvanetsky
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky
• Roman Kartsev
• Vladimir Kuzmin
• Evgeniy Leonov
• Grigory Leps
• Lev Leshchenko
• Andrey Malakhov
• Georgy Millyar
• Andrey Mironov
• Stas Mikhailov
• Igor Nikolaev
• Anatoly Papanov
• Evgeny Petrosyan
• Anton Privonov
• Edward Radzinsky
• Alexander Rosenbaum
• Yuri Senkevich
• Yuri Stoyanov
• Sergey Trofimov
• Gennady Khazanov
• Efim Shifrin
• Mikhail Shufutinsky
• Leonid Yakubovich

In the program “Repeat!” (V. Ponomarenko)

• Efim Shifrin (1 episode, “telephone prank”);
• Sergey Lavrov (2nd issue);
• Vladimir Kuzmin (3rd edition; performed V. Kuzmin’s original song “Simona”);
• Andrei Mironov (4th issue; the minister-administrator, the character of A. Mironov, was parodied in the film “An Ordinary Miracle”);
• Mikhail Boyarsky (out of competition, together with his brother Alexander) and Alexander Vasiliev (5th edition);
• Yuri Stoyanov (issue 6 - together with Alexander, who parodied Ilya Oleinikov)
• Evgeny Evstigneev (7th issue; the director of the national theater was parodied - the character of E. Evstigneev in the film “Beware of the Car”);
• Mikhail Zhvanetsky (8th issue; read Zhvanetsky’s original monologue “Fine, Grigory”);
• Efim Shifrin; Lev Durov and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan (category "Cartoons" - the character voiced by L. Durov was parodied - the dog Sharik from the film "Three from Prostokvashino" and the character voiced by A. Dzhigarkhanyan - the wolf from the film "Once upon a time there was a dog"); Gennady Khazanov (final; another member of the jury - Sergei Bezrukov - was parodied by Alexander Ponomarenko).