Background
Ilya Klyaver was born on 10 July 1947 in Chișinău, in a Jewish family of Lev (Leib) Naftulovich Klyaver and Clara (Chaya) Borisovna Klyaver (Preseli).
Ilya Klyaver was born on 10 July 1947 in Chișinău, in a Jewish family of Lev (Leib) Naftulovich Klyaver and Clara (Chaya) Borisovna Klyaver (Preseli).
In 1965 he began to study and in 1969 graduated from GUTSEI - Moscow State Circus and Variety Arts Institute.
From 1969 to 1971 Oleynikov served in the Soviet Army. He worked as an artist in Moskontsert and from 1974 to 1990 as a stand-up comedian in Lenkontsert. The duo also worked with Vladimir Vinokur (in particular, in the popular-parody program "Is there extra ticket").
From 1968, he starred in several movies.
He died on 11 November 2012. IMDB Видео в память об артисте on YouTube (Russian) Личное дело Олейникова И.
Л. (Russian) Интервью журналу Турнавигатор (Russian) Илья Олейников: Жизнь как песня (Russian).