“A huge, big man, big, immense talent, incredible mind, a special view of the world, people - everything that surrounds us.

He heard something so special from space and, recording it in an amazing way, told all of us, opening our eyes to seemingly obvious things.

I had happy meetings with Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

Personal meetings, we once did his creative evening together, which I led.

We crossed paths with him several times on tour, ”said Oleshko.

He added that he thanks Zhvanetsky for all his work, for his "incredibly beautiful and grandiosely talented period of working with Arkady Raikin."

“Many reprises that we heard from the lips of the great artist Raikin were invented and written by Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

I thank him for the books, I thank him for once very timely said to me a kind word of support.

His memory is blessed, and it is a pity that people of this magnitude are leaving us, "the interlocutor of RT concluded. 

Zhvanetsky died at the age of 87.

Death was confirmed by a representative of the satirist. 

Singer Alla Pugacheva called Zhvanetsky's death an irreparable loss.