Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseevich often expressed the idea that his childhood was overshadowed by the war, and old age - perestroika. The meaning and truthfulness of these words can only be understood by older people. Vysokovsky was born in 1932 in the city of Taganrog. He was always an excellent pupil, and he graduated from all educational institutions either with a gold medal or with a red diploma.
Vysokovsky, an excellent student - an axiom!
The son of the chief accountant of the Taganrog brick factory studied at the school named after A.P. Chekhov - one of the best educational institutions of the city. After graduating from it in 1952 with honors, Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseevich goes to Moscow to the Theater School. Schukin.
It was not possible to enter a prestigious Moscow university immediately (they say because of the 5th column), and in the same year the gold medalist entered the radio engineering institute of his native city. Having received a
red diploma, becoming a rocket engineer, he makes a new attempt to enter the coveted "Pike", and in 1957 he becomes her student.
The best scenes of the capital
Having brilliantly graduated from a theater university, in which he studied with Veniamin Smekhov, Zinovy Vysokovsky becomes an artist of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures. It should be noted that Vladimir Abramovich Etush recruited students only once, and it was from him that Vysokovsky studied at this only course. Now the Theater of Miniatures is known as the Hermitage, whose artistic director is Mikhail Levitin. And then it was led by its founder Vladimir Polyakov. This theater is often called the "school of clowns." It is clear why Zinovy Moiseevich goes there - a person with a great sense of humor, who later became a master of the colloquial genre, went to serve where he was, of course, in demand (he worked there along with Mark Zakharov). This fact itself speaks of his talent - it is difficult for visitors after the institute to gain a foothold in Moscow. In 1967, Zinovy Vysokovsky moved to the Satire Theater, where he served 20 years, and left it only in 1987 after the death of Anatoly Papanov and Andrei Mironov.
Significant Roles
On the stage of the Satire Theater, he played many wonderful roles. He was especially remembered by the audience for the role of a wise Pharmacist who spoke with an Odessa accent in the play “Intervention” by Lev Slavin, and the role of Bartolo in “The Marriage of Figaro”, and Schweik in the movie play “Schweik in World War II” (1969).
Throughout the country, Vysokovsky Zinovy Moiseevich became known as Pan Zyuzya from "Zucchini 13 Chairs" (1968-1981). The phrases of a graphomaniac scattered across the country. And now, viewers of the older generation remember his "Kind all evening!". They loved all the regulars at Zucchini, they waited for the episodes so that even the hero of the story One Hundred Years Ahead rushes home from the future to the TV, because at 20-00 the Zucchini starts.
but on the other hand
By the 10th anniversary of the program, all the artists depicting regular customers, including Zinovy Vysokovsky, were awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Poland. The transfer ceased in 1981 due to political aggravation in this country. There were shootings in Zucchini and the negative side - the main director of the Satire Theater V.Pluchek, known for his heavy character, jealous of the actors for such a popular program (which Leonid Ilyich loved very much) in the theater did not give them any noticeable roles. The filmmakers also acted, because the names given to the actors in Zucchini were firmly entrenched in them. And in The Living and the Dead, Zinovy Vysokovsky played his part beautifully and was very remembered by the audience. He was good in all his movie roles, although there were few of them, just over 10.
Free bread
Very intelligent, non-conflict, with a wonderful sense of humor, gentle man, Vysokovsky was quite decisive. He left the well-paid job of a rocket engineer in Rostov and went to Moscow, in which he received 22 rubles of a scholarship for all his years of study. Then he left the Satire Theater, where he had insufficient, but guaranteed payment, and went “nowhere”, and under the Soviet regime “free bread” was not welcomed.
To provide for his beloved women - his wife, daughter and granddaughter - he worked a lot on the radio and toured with concerts, the script for which he wrote himself. And these concerts were not always of a humorous nature - he knew a lot and performed poetry by K. Simonov, R. Gamzatov and V. Vysotsky, with whom he was friendly.
The program “Odessa Says”
In 1985, he, together with the director E. Kamenkovich, created the play "The Fifth Side of the World", which was successfully performed on the stage of the Variety Theater. The program “Odessa Speaks” Zinovy Vysokovsky led on the radio (“Humor FM”). He knew a huge number of jokes, many of which he invented himself, and which he masterfully told. He came up with this rubric on the radio station himself, and thought about it after working on the image of the Apothecary from Intervention. His monologues remained unforgettable in the image of a tipsy intellectual who calls his wife (the famous Lulek) from a detoxifier. He was very good with the monologues of the "zaytsoved". In a word, who saw and heard Z.M. Vysokovsky, remember and love him.
Zinovy Vysokovsky Odessa jokes told beautifully, although he did not Odessa. He collected and systematized them.
Happy man
His work on the radio and in the theater did not remain unappreciated - he became People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2003. A lot of Vysokovsky’s statements became winged and went to the people. In the last years of his life, he returned to the Theater of Satire. In 2002, he released the book My Life - A Joke.
Zinovy Moiseevich had a beautiful loving family. Daughter Catherine became a journalist and radio host, and her beloved granddaughter, beautiful Sofia, followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, with whom she was inseparable. Zinovy Moiseevich died in 2009 from renal failure. He was buried at the
Vagankovsky cemetery.