“I have known him since 72.
We went with the club "12 chairs" and lived with him in the same room in the city of Tomsk.
I can say that until 1978 it was never published in a literary newspaper ... Today it is hard to believe it, but in the club "12 chairs" it was never published until 1980.
And only in the 78th year, the program "Around Laughter" began to show it, and it immediately became famous and popular throughout the country.
To this day, he was the best satirist in our country, ”Izmailov said.
Actor and TV presenter Alexander Oleshko also commented on the message about the death of the writer and called Zhvanetsky a man of immense talent and incredible intelligence.
Zhvanetsky died at the age of 87.