World famous clown Oleg Popov died in the circus hotel in Rostov-na-Donu
He acted in the Rostov circus on the road last weekend.
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Moscow. 3 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — people’s artist of the Soviet Union, the clown Oleg Popov died in the circus hotel in the city of Rostov-on-don, where he was on tour, said the Agency “Interfax” in an environment of Popova.
“Oleg Popov was watching TV, sitting in a chair around 23:00 GMT were with him a number of people saw him in an unnatural position. To the hotel I immediately called the ambulance, but to save clown failed. He died a natural death,” — said the Agency interlocutor.
He noted that priests acted in the Rostov circus on the road last weekend, the film has collected a large number of fans, people were willing to view people’s artist of the USSR.
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“On Friday he walked the streets of Rostov-on-don, and nothing presaged his death,” — said the Agency interlocutor.
In turn a press-the Secretary of the annaeva Angelica Russian state circus company confirmed to Interfax that Popov died in Rostov-on-don on Thursday.
“Oleg Antonov died in the circus hotel in Rostov-on-don. Held in some media information about the fact that he died in Germany, is wrong. He died in Rostov, where he was touring. Beside him was his wife, we are currently negotiating with his daughter about the place and date of the funeral,” said Annaev.
Popov was born on 31 July 1930 in the village of Vyrubova in the Moscow region, and later his family moved to Moscow.
In 1944, after club activities acrobatics of the Palace of sports “wings of the Soviets”, he entered the State school of circus arts, from which he graduated in 1950 with a degree “the Cam on the wire”.
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Having started his career as a trapeze artist, Popov in 1951 he made his debut as clown clowns in the Saratov circus, and then worked in this role in a Youth circus group.
Created the artistic image of “Sunny the clown” is a cheerful boy with a shock of blonde hair in a deliberately wide striped pants and a plaid cap.
Since 1991, while retaining Russian citizenship, lived and worked in Egloffstein, Germany, under the stage name “Happy Hans”.