Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit of Cardiology Department

On March 4 USSR People’s Artist Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the cardiology department of Scientific Research Institute for Emergency Medicine named after N.V. Sklifosovsky, reports TASS.. “He is in the cardiology department of intensive care for patients with heart attack,” – the institute informed.

Earlier directory of the ambulance confirmed that Dzhigarkhanyan is hospitalized. “He was taken to the Institute Sklifosovsky Emergency Care.”, – the directory read.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union on 3 October 1935. His paternal grandfather, a “professional tamada”, came from an Armenian family from Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital.[3] He graduated from a Russian high school named after Anton Chekhov. Between 1953 and 1954, he worked as camera operator’s assistant at the state-run Hayfilm studio.

Since 1960, he appeared in a number of Armenian films. He became popular in the 1970s with the various roles he portrayed in Soviet films like The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968), its sequel The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers (1971) and The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979). After almost 30 years on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theatre, Dzhigarkhanyan taught at VGIK and in 1996 he founded his own drama theater in Moscow.

Dzhigarkhanyan, one of the most renowned living film and stage Armenian and Russian actors, has appeared in more films than any other Russian actor with more than 250 appearances.