Armenian actor Zhak Yengibaryan dies aged 85
An actor of the Hakob Paronyan State Musical Comedy Theater, Honored Artist of the Soviet Armenia Zhak Yengibaryan passed away on Tuesday at the age of 85, the theater broke the news on Facebook.
Zhak Yengibaryan was born in Leningrad in 1936. Shortly afterwards, his family moved to Yerevan. In 1953 he graduated from Dzerzhinsky secondary school in Yerevan. From 1953-1958 he studied at the Directing Department of the Moscow State Institute of Fine Arts and Theater.
From 1958 to 1962 he was an actor at the Russian Drama Theatre of Lithuania. Until 1977 he worked as an actor in various cities of the Soviet Union, including in Petrozavodsk, Omsk, Baku and Tbilisi. From 1977 Yengibaryan worked at the State Russian Drama Theatre named after Konstantin Stanislavski and from 1993 at the Hakob Paronyan State Musical Comedy Theater.
Zhak Yengibaryan also starred in a number of famous Armenian films, including “Honor", "King Arshak", “Mkhitar Sparapet”, “Twelfth Night”, to name a few.