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The list Russian humour includes Anton Chekhov, Alexander Chekhov, Yevgeny Petrosyan, Arkady Averchenko and Gennadi Khazanov. The list consists of 26 members and 6 sublists.
  • 1.

    Anton Chekhov
    Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
    Anton Chekhov
    Overview: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short ...
    Date of birth: 29 January 1860
    Date of death: 15 July 1904
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Tuberculosis deaths in Germany 66T
    Russian humorists 22T
    Psychological fiction writers 26T
  • 2.

    Yevgeny Petrosyan
    Russian comedian
    Yevgeny Petrosyan
    Overview: Yevgeny Vaganovich Petrosyan (Russian: Евге́ний Вага́нович Петрося́н, Armenian: Եվգենի Վահանի Պետրոսյան (Պետրոսյանց); born on 16 September 1945 in Baku, USSR) is a Soviet/Russian comedian of Armenian and ...
    Date of birth: 16 September 1945
    Age: 79
    Nationality: Armenian
    Occupation: Comic
    Gender: Male
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    Entertainers from Baku 5T
    Russian humorists 22T
    Azerbaijani people of Jewish descent 4T
  • 3.
    Alexander Chekhov
    Overview: Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Че́хов; August 22, 1855 – May 29, 1913), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist, and the elder brother of Anton ...
    Date of birth: 22 August 1855
    Date of death: 29 May 1913
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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    Russian humorists 22T
    Russian male essayists 71T
    19th-century Russian short story writers 52T
  • 4.

    Vladimir Vinokur
    Actor and comedian
    Vladimir Vinokur
    Overview: Vladimir Natanovich Vinokur (born 31 March 1948 in Kursk) is a Russian actor and comedian. He was awarded the Meritorious Artist in 1984 and the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1989.
    Date of birth: 31 March 1948
    Age: 76
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Russian humorists 22T
    Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class 173T
    Russian male comedians 31T
  • 5.

    Arkady Averchenko
    Russian comic and satirical writer
    Arkady Averchenko
    Overview: Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (Russian: Арка́дий Тимофе́евич Аве́рченко; March 27, 1881 in Sevastopol – March 12, 1925 in Prague) was a Russian playwright and satirist. He published his stories in the ...
    Date of birth: 27 March 1881
    Date of death: 12 March 1925
    Age: 43 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
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    Humorists of the Russian Empire 1T
    Satirists of the Russian Empire 1T
    Writers from Sevastopol 4T
  • 6.

    M. Zadornov
    Comedian
    M. Zadornov
    Overview: Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Задо́рнов, Mihaíl Nikolájevič Zadórnov; July 21, 1948 in Jūrmala, Latvian SSR, USSR – November 10, 2017 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and ...
    Date of birth: 21 July 1948
    Date of death: 10 November 2017
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Comedian
    Gender: Male
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    Russian humorists 22T
    Male bloggers 283T
    Russian male comedians 31T
  • 7.

    Gennadi Khazanov
    Russian actor and comedian
    Gennadi Khazanov
    Overview: Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov (Russian: Генна́дий Ви́кторович Хаза́нов; born 1 December 1945) is a Russian stand-up comedian and part-time actor. His work includes parodies of Russian and Soviet politicians ...
    Date of birth: 1 December 1945
    Age: 78
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Jewish Russian comedians 10T
    Russian humorists 22T
    Russian male comedians 31T
  • 8.

    Viktor Koklyushkin
    Soviet and Russian writer (1945–2021)
    Viktor Koklyushkin
    Overview: Viktor Mikhailovich Koklyushkin (Russian: Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Коклю́шкин; 27 November 1945, Moscow – 12 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian satirist and television host.
    Date of birth: 27 September 1945
    Date of death: 12 November 2021
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Columnist
    Gender: Male
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    2021 deaths 8,626T
    Russian humorists 22T
    Russian male comedians 31T
  • 9.

    Abid Asomov
    Uzbekistan comedian
    Abid Asomov
    Overview: Obid Agzamovich Asomov (Uzbek: Obid Agzamovich Asomov; October 22, 1963 – December 14, 2018) was an Uzbek comedian actor. Participant of the humorous TV show Crooked Mirror aired on the channel Russia-1 ...
    Date of birth: 22 October 1963
    Date of death: 14 December 2018
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: Uzbekistani
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Fazil Iskander
    Russian-Abkhaz writer
    Fazil Iskander
    Overview: Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (Russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; Abkhazian: Фазиль Абдул-иҧа Искандер; 6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet ...
    Date of birth: 6 March 1929
    Date of death: 31 July 2016
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Georgian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Russian humorists 22T
    Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni 33T
    20th-century Russian male writers 393T
  • 11.

    Nadezhda Teffi
    Russian writer
    Nadezhda Teffi
    Overview: Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (Russian: Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Тэ́ффи; 21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872, Saint Petersburg – 6 October 1952, Paris) was a Russian humorist writer. Together with Arkady Av ...
    Date of birth: 21 May 1872
    Date of death: 6 October 1952
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Pseudonymous women writers 644T
    20th-century Russian women writers 112T
    Russian women short story writers 44T
  • 12.

    Valentin Kataev
    Soviet writer and editor (1897–1986)
    Valentin Kataev
    Overview: Valentin Petrovich Kataev (Russian: Валентин Петрович Катаев; also spelled Katayev or Kataiev; 28 January [O.S. 16 January] 1897 – 12 April 1986) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright ...
    Date of birth: 28 January 1897
    Date of death: 12 April 1986
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Odessa 56T
    20th-century memoirists 804T
    Russian humorists 22T
  • 13.

    Ilf and Petrov
    Soviet writing duo
    Ilf and Petrov
    Overview: Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg) (Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev/Katayev or Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев, ...
    Date of birth: 1897
    Date of death: 1937
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Odessa 56T
    Russian humorists 22T
    20th-century Russian male writers 393T
  • 14.

    British scientists (meme)
    Russian Internet meme
    British scientists (meme)
    Overview: In modern Russian culture "British scientists" (Russian: Британские учёные) is a running joke used as an ironic reference to absurd news reports about scientific discoveries: "British scientists managed ...
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Internet memes introduced in 2014 17T
    Cultural depictions of scientists 7T
    Running gags 9T
  • 15.

    Lion Izmailov
    Russian, Writer
    Lion Izmailov
    Overview: Lion Izmailov (Russian: Лио́н Изма́йлов), real name Lion Moiseevich Polyak (Russian: Лио́н Моисе́евич По́ляк); born May 5, 1940, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian satirist writer, screenwriter and entertainer ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1940
    Age: 84
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Russian humorists 22T
    20th-century Russian male writers 393T
    21st-century male writers 1,614T
  • 16.

    Semyon Altov
    Soviet comedy writer
    Overview: Semyon Altov (Russian: Семён Альтов) (born January 17, 1945) is a Soviet comedy writer. Original name: Semyon Teodorovich Altshuller (Russian: Семён Теодо́рович Альтшуллер).
    Date of birth: 17 January 1945
    Age: 79
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Screenwriter
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    Nikolai Leykin
    Russian writer, artist, playwright, journalist and publisher
    Nikolai Leykin
    Overview: Nikolai Alexandrovich Leykin (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Ле́йкин; December 19, 1841 – January 19, 1906) was a Russian writer, artist, playwright, journalist and publisher.
    Date of birth: 19 December 1841
    Date of death: 19 January 1906
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    Russian humorists 22T
    19th-century Russian male writers 143T
    19th-century Russian novelists 58T
  • 18.

    Hammer & Tickle
    American film
    Hammer & Tickle
    Overview: Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 documentary film about the nature of Russian political jokes under the powerful and socially restrictive Communist regime of the Soviet Union and its ...
    Release date: 30 April 2006
    Genre: Documentary, History
    Director: Ben Lewis
    George Orwell wrote that in a repressive political system every joke is a "tiny revolution." Jokes were...
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    2006 documentary films 243T
    Marxism–Leninism 16T
    American political satire films 83T
  • 19.

    One-storied America
    1937 travelogue by Ilf and Petrov
    Overview: One-storied America (Одноэтажная Америка) is a 1937 book based on a published travelogue across the United States by two Soviet authors, Ilf and Petrov. The book, divided into eleven chapters and in ...
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  • 20.

    Heart of a Dog
    1925 satirical novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
    Heart of a Dog
    Overview: Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, Sobachye syerdtsye) is a novel by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when ...
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    Russian satirical novels 17T
    Russian political satire 12T
    1925 Russian novels 7T
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