Arkady Semyonovich Gartsman ( Ukrainian: Аркадій Семенович Гарцман; 1 May 1947 – 23 June 2022) was a Ukrainian

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and actor.

Life and career

Born in

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, before entering the entertainment industry, Gartsman worked as a mechanic in a factory and as an engineer in a bus depot. His career started when some compositions he had sent to director

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were eventually chosen to be part of the film ''

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''. Gartsman later composed songs for prominent artists such as

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, Nikolai Karachentsov, Taisia Povaliy and

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. Gartsman was also active as an actor and a screenwriter in cinema and on television, having some significant success playing the lead in the series ''

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''. In 1990, he co-founded the comic newspaper ''Blin'', that he also directed until 1998. He died on 23 June 2022, aged 75 years old.

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