Armen Dzigarkhanyan’s health still in critical condition

YEREVAN, MARCH 6, ARMENPRESS. People's Artist of the USSR and Russia Armen Dzigarkhanyan remains in intensive care unit with critical health condition, “Interfax” was informed from the press service of Sklifosovsky Research Institute.

“The condition is critical. He is in intensive care unit”, a press service employee informed.

On March 5 Dzigarkhanyan was taken to intensive care unit with symptomsof aheart attack, but that diagnose was not confirmed.

On March 5, at 10:00, USSR People's Artist Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the cardiology department of Scientific Research InstituteforEmergencyMedicine namedafter N.V. Sklifosovsky, "Armenpress" was informed from the Institute. Staff of the institute refused to provide information on Armen Dzhigarkanyan's health condition.

“We only confirm that Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was moved to our medical institution because of heart problems at 10:00 in the morning.All the necessary examinations are carried out. Only after finishing the examination, we can provide new information”, receptionist of the Medical Research Institute said.

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union on 3 October 1935. His paternal grandfather came from an Armenian family from Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. 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 played 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.