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* [[Zhang_Fan_Video_2003|Zhang Fan]], slack wire (2003)
 
* [[Cuevas_Video_(2020)|Luis Gerardo Cuevas]], juggler (2020)
 
* [[Cuevas_Video_(2020)|Luis Gerardo Cuevas]], juggler (2020)
 
* [[Jigalov_Video_(2006)|Andrey Jigalov]], clown (2006)
 
* [[Jigalov_Video_(2006)|Andrey Jigalov]], clown (2006)
 
* [[Izossimov_Video_(2007)|Oleg Izossimov]], hand balancing (2007)
 
* [[Izossimov_Video_(2007)|Oleg Izossimov]], hand balancing (2007)
 
* [[Daniel_Cyr_Video_(2003)|Daniel Cyr]], Cyr wheel (2003)
 
* [[Daniel_Cyr_Video_(2003)|Daniel Cyr]], Cyr wheel (2003)
* [[Simonenko_Video_(2007)|Simonenko Troupe]], horizontal bars (2007)
 
  
 
==New Oral Histories==
 
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YURY NIKULIN

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Yury Nikulin (1921-1997) was the Soviet Union’s (and later, Russia’s) greatest and most beloved clownGeneric term for all clowns and augustes. '''Specific:''' In Europe, the elegant, whiteface character who plays the role of the straight man to the Auguste in a clown team., as well as a remarkable and equally beloved screen actor; his performing career covered more than three decades, from 1948 to 1981. Upon his retirement from the ring, he became Director of Moscow's "Old Circus" on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which he had entirely rebuilt (from 1985-1989) into a modern facility by a Finnish company, thus bringing that cherished Moscow institution into the modern age, and restoring its prominence on the Russian and European circus scenes at a critical moment in Russian history.

Yury Vladimirovich Nikulin (Юрий Владимирович Никулин) was born in a theatrical family on December 18, 1921, in Demidov, a small town in the province of Smolensk, in northwest Russia, near the Belarussian border. His father was Moscow-born Vladimir Andreyevich Nikulin (1898-1964); his mother, Lidiya Ivanovna Nikulina (1902-1979), was born Lidiya Germanova in Lievenhof (today's Līvāni) in Latvia, which was then part of the of the Russian Empire; she had moved to Demidov with relatives during the First World War to stay away from the combat zone. There, she met and married Vladimir Andreyevich.

When Yury was born, Vladimir Nikulin had just been discharged from the Red Army and got a job at the Drama Theater in Demidov, where Lidiya also worked as an actress. Then, he organized a traveling propaganda-theater group that promoted the brand-new Soviet regime through "revolutionary humor," and acted in plays which he also directed. In 1925, the Nikulin family moved to Moscow, where Vladimir wrote sketches for circus and variety shows—which were still intensely politicized then. He also organized the theater group at the school his son, Yury, attended. Later, he became a journalist.

On November 18, 1939, after graduating from high schoolA display of equestrian dressage by a rider mounting a horse and leading it into classic moves and steps. (From the French: Haute école), young Yury Nikulin was drafted into the Red Army for his three-year mandatory military service. This would have a long-lasting impact on Yury Nikulin as a man: In June 1941, the USSR declared war on Germany and the Axis powers, and what will be known in Russia as "The Great Patriotic War" started. Yury Nikulin was then serving in the 115th anti-aircraft artillery regiment. During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940), his anti-aircraft battery had guarded the air approaches to Leningrad. (more...)

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