Georgi Zhzhyonov was a great Russian actor.

From 1932-1935, Zhzhonov studied under Sergei Gerasimov at the Leningrad Theater and Film Institute, where his classmate was Arkadi Rajkin. Zhzhonov continued his film career in the classic film Chapaev (1934), where he played a cameo role alongside Boris Babochkin. Then he worked again with director Eduard Ioganson in Nasledny prints respubliki (1934). In 1935 Zhzhonov graduated from the class of Sergei Gerasimov and his film career looked good.

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