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Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
Actor
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Odesa
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
Dead
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