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Honored Russian satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky celebrated his 80th birthday with a large concert, which included his best works from his more than forty-year career. He began working at the Arkady Raikin Theater, then collaborated with Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, for whom he wrote more than three hundred short stories and monologues. His collected works are published in five volumes. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky (Mikhail Manyevich Zhvanetsky; born March 6, 1934, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Russian satirist and performer of his own literary works. People's Artist of Ukraine (1999). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2012). Mikhail Zhvanetsky's works and performances are distinguished by a special "Odessa humor"; they ridicule human shortcomings and the vices of society.