Libabov, Anvar Zoyanovich

Born on May 2, 1958 in the village of Novaya Kushva, Sverdlovsk Region (now the Nizhny Tagil microdistrict), Tatar by nationality ^{[1] [2]} . Grew up in the city of Nizhny Tagil .

Since the Libabov family did not live well, Anvar had to wear very ridiculous clothes as a child. For example, the coat received from the school as material assistance is three sizes larger, short trousers, worn bots. Given the very thin figure of Anwar and thick glasses, this caused peer ridicule. Fortunately, Anwar did not withdraw into himself, and did not become embittered with those around him - he did everything he could to cheer up his comrades.

After school, by decision of the family council, he entered the veterinary school, which he graduated in 1977 with a red diploma . Immediately after that he entered and in 1982 graduated from the Leningrad Veterinary Institute . By distribution, he was sent to work as the chief veterinarian of the collective farm named after I.V. Michurin in the Kalinin region . Later he transferred to work at the Ruchyi state farm, worked as a senior veterinarian at the Lavriki farm in the Leningrad Region .

In 1981 he entered the pantomime school-studio at the clown-mime theater " Lyceum ".

In April 1987, he completed his career as a veterinarian and became a clown in the Lyceum Theater. From 1987 to 1989 he was the head of the production part of this theater, and from 1998 - the general director. In 2003 ^[3] (according to other sources in 2001 ^[4] ) he voluntarily left his post in order to be able to devote more time to the preparation of the theatrical circus show “Krakatuk” based on the Hoffmann fairy tale “ The Nutcracker and the Mouse King ”. ^[3] Moreover, it was very difficult to combine the actor’s creative work with the pragmatic and routine work of an administrator. ^[five]

Currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Family

Anvar Libabov has a sister and three second cousins. One of them is a steelworker , another builder, a third medical worker ^[5] .

Wife Natalya - a former theater critic, journalist, editor-in-chief of various newspapers. Now works as a creative producer in a film company. Anvar Libabov met his future wife in the Leningrad House of the actor. According to Libabov, it was love at first sight. For many years, they are inseparable from his wife, but officially formalized their relationship only after many years, when their daughter was already at school ^[6] .

The only daughter of Anvar Libabov is Eugene. By education an art critic. He publishes books, writes mainly about music ^[6] . In particular, he is the author of the book “The King and the Jester. And the living will sing about the dead ”- an authorized account of the history of the famous Russian punk band“ King and the Jester ” ^[7] .

Libabov’s creative activity began in his student years with participation in KVN , STEM and performances of the student drama theater based on plays by A. Volodin , E. Schwartz ^[5] .

Working as a veterinarian, Libabov participated in amateur performances - he sang in the choir at the village club, continued to collaborate with the "Lyceum".

In 1987, at the invitation of Vyacheslav Polunin, he began working in the clown-mime theater "Lyceums".

Anvar Libabov’s debut in 1986 was his participation in the musical film “ How to Become a Star ”, well known to the owners of the first video recorders in the Soviet Union. Later, Libabov repeatedly acted in films, but more and more in secondary roles, or in roles where it is not required to pronounce a lot of text. It is characteristic that he played a significant and spectacular role in the film "Castle", where there is not much text.

The big work in the cinema was the role of Anton Groshev ("Guru") in the television series " Foundry ". According to Libabov, it was a difficult job ^[6] .

I have had single experiences of episodic roles with a small amount of text. And here they invited in a serial film with a huge number of words. At first, to teach them, and then organically pronouncing oo-oo is very difficult for me. After all, in clowning, I usually was silent and spoke only absurd texts in Abracadabra.

Theater Roles

• "Pokatuha" - Lysovichok ( theater "Lycedei" )
• “Doctor Pirogoff” - Paparazzi ( Theater “Lyceums” )
• "Absolute" - Ochkarik ( theater "Lycedei" )
• Churdaki - Veteran (Lyceum Theater )
• "Dreams" - Islander ( theater "Lycedei" )
• “Assisy-Revue” - Kloshar ( “Lycedei” Theater )
• “Catastrophe” - Disabled ( theater “Litsedey” )
• The Berlin Wall - Defector ( Lyceum Theater )
• “Not Hamlet” (Not Hamlet) - Dr. Climber ( Theater “Commandant's Shelter” )
• “Diary of a genius” - Dali-2 ( theater “Shelter of the commandant” )
• Lulu ( Theater of the Commandant’s Shelter )
• Krakatuk - Drosselmeyer and the Mouse King
• “Fly and Saw” ( the Lyceum Theater )
• “These crazy, crazy stars” - Aristotle Davidovich, doctor (A. Raikin pop theater)
• “Pound of Meat” - Balthazar ( Bolshoi Drama Theater ) ^[8]

Filmography

• 1986 - How to Become a Star - Clown
• 1991 - Super Cork (Germany) / Superstau - cook
• 1994 - Castle - Arthur, surveyor assistant
• 1994 - 1998 - Iron grandmothers - Nilovna
• 1998 - Saltless cones, or New Year's Eve with Leonid Leikin
• 1998 - Bobak Saskerville - watchman Belomor
• 1998 - About freaks and people - a corridor “cracker”
• 1998 - I want to go to jail
• 2000 - House of Hope - Japanese
• 2001 - Destructive Force-2, a series of "Mission Doable" - expert
• 2001 - Streets of broken lanterns-3 - massage therapist
• 2006 - Pope of all trades - Edgar Io
• 2008 - Don't Think About White Monkeys - Hu Pun
• 2008 - Answer me - Anton Groshev
• 2008 - 2012 - Foundry - Anton Groshev ("Guru")
• 2012 - Inspector Cooper - Grandfather Arseny, a former convict
• 2014 - Faster than rabbits - Inquisitor
• 2018 - Gogol. Wii - Beznosy
• 2019 - Gogol. Scary Revenge - Beznosy
• 2018 - Osovets - German Major
• 2019 - Gogol - Bearless

Participation in concert projects

• Wings (St. Petersburg) - the Nautilus-Pompilius group and Vyacheslav Butusov
• "Bibigonia" (Moscow, St. Petersburg)
• “Na-Na Above the Earth” (St. Petersburg, Moscow) - the Na-Na group
• "Nautilus Pompilius. 30 years under water" - the group "Nautilus-Pompilius" and Vyacheslav Butusov

Scoring

• 2018 - Hoffmanniad

• Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Constellation Film Festival 1994 ^[9]

• Anvar Libabov is the owner of two miniature cars: Citroen 2CV , 1989 and Austin-Mini , 1987. It is these machines that the extravagant clown likes the most. He gave the names of his cars: Citroen - “Duck”, Mini - “Droplet”. ^[ten]
• Citroen car with a hangover was bought in Berlin in 1995 for 3333.33 Deutschmarks ^[11]
• It was this Citroen who starred in the television series Liteiny 4, in the role of Anton Groshev's personal car. ^[eleven]
• Anvar Libabov's pet is a bald sphynx cat named Yasya, according to Libabov, who has a portrait resemblance to himself. ^[five]
• Anvar Libabov left the work of a veterinarian and finally became a clown on April 1, on "April Fool's Day"
• Anwar spends phenomenally little time on stage makeup - only 35 seconds. At the same time, he is guided by the principle: to remove advantages, emphasize disadvantages. At the Lyceum Theater, he is making up faster than anyone. And always himself - these are clown traditions. However, Libabov’s makeup is especially not needed. Funny and eccentric appearance gave him nature itself. The famous clown understood this as a child. ^[12]

• Anvar Libabov on the Internet Movie Database
• Anvar Libabov in the image - photo by Tatyana Yatskiv
• Photographer Alexander Vodyanoy - photoshoot with Anvar Libabov
• "Kukaracha-Car from Liteiny, 4" // "Wheels", July 11, 2008. (Article about Citroen 2CV Anvar Libabova)