Evgeny Petrosyan (Petrosyan) was born on September 15, 1945 in Baku. From the age of 12, he actively participated in amateur activities, performed in the productions of the amateur troupe, concerts, and performances of the People’s Theater. In 1961, he entered the All-Russian Creative Workshop of Pop Art (VTMEI), where his teachers were the famous Rina Zelenaya and one of the first entertainers of the Soviet stage Alexei Alekseev. Petrosyan’s debut on the professional stage took place in 1962, when
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Evgeny Petrosyan (Petrosyan) was born on September 15, 1945 in Baku. From the age of 12, he actively participated in amateur activities, performed in the productions of the amateur troupe, concerts, and performances of the People’s Theater. In 1961, he entered the All-Russian Creative Workshop of Pop Art (VTMEI), where his teachers were the famous Rina Zelenaya and one of the first entertainers of the Soviet stage Alexei Alekseev. Petrosyan’s debut on the professional stage took place in 1962, when he as an entertainer led the graduation program of VTMEI “There is once 18 years in a life”. Then he began to perform with individual numbers, and in 1964 he received an invitation from Leonid Utesov to his orchestra as an entertainer, where he worked, simultaneously performing on the stage, until the late 1960s. In the future, more than 20 years of creative activity of the artist was associated with Mosconzert (until 1974 - one of the leading entertainers, then - the performer of monologues). In 1970, Petrosyan became a laureate of the pop artist contest. Soon its permanent authors were G. Minnikov, M. Zadornov, L. Natapov, A. Height, L. Izmailov, he began to perform more often on TV, led large concert programs. The actor began to appear in the miniature television theater "Half Seriously", the television program "Artloto". Together with L.Shimelov and A.Pisarenkov, he released the program "Three went on stage." In 1975, the actor released the first solo program - the play "Monologues", which marked the beginning of the future Theatre of Pop Miniatures by E. Petrosyan. One of his first productions was the play “A Kind Word and a Pleasure to a Cat” (1980). In 1985, Evgeny Petrosyan graduated from the department of stage directors at GITIS. Among the well-known programs and performances, in most of which he participates not only as the main artist, but also as a director, can be called "How are you?" (1986), "Inventory" (1989), "Fools we all..." (1991), "Limony Country, the village of Petrosania" (1995), "When finances sing romances" (1997), "Family joys" (1999). In 1991, E.V. Petrosyan was awarded the honorary title “People’s Artist of Russia”. In addition to active work on the stage and theatrical directing, he is known as the author of books on the theory and practice of pop art: "I want to be an artist" (1994), "Petrosyan in the country of jokes" (1994-1998, five reissues), "From funny to great" (1995), "Petrosmushki" (1999), "What Petrosyan laughs" (Anthology of the repertoire) (2000), "Record "Hikhanki-hahanki" (2001). At the theater of pop miniatures, he created the Center for pop humor, where unique materials on the history of pop of the XIX-XX centuries are collected: magazines, posters, photographs and much more. Evgeny Petrosyan is the creator and participant of many TV programs. He was one of the first leading programs “New Year’s Blue Light”, “Morning Mail”, “Sold out, sold out ...”, in different years created solo programs “From various points of view” (1985), “Invitation to Petrosyan’s Evening” (1988), “Petrosyan’s Engagement” (1990), “Operation Petrosyan” (1991), “Who is this Petrosyan?” (2001). Since 1994, the series "Smehopanorama" has been successfully shown on TV.