The presenter touched followers deeply.

Valery Kiselyov

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Ivan Urgant

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Ivan Urgant has shared a rare archival photo of his mother Valeria Kiseleva, who passed away two years ago. Published the was timed to coincide with her birthday. The mother of TV presenter this year would have turned 66 years old. “Happy Birthday, mom!” — wrote Urgant in the microblog.

Photo made a strong impression on the subscribers TV presenter. Many of them first saw the portrait of the mother of Ivan young. 38-year-old Urgant as it turned out, has an incredible resemblance to her. Some of the fans at first refused to believe that the picture captures the mother of the stars, and not himself. “At first I thought that it was Urgant, wearing a wig. Stunningly similar, Sad… One time I wrote seriously, and many thought — jokes!”, “One person! I thought you were Ivan the young,” “How like her!” — wrote a TV presenter.

Valery Kiselyov died in 2015 before reaching just weeks before his birthday. The actress was widely known in theatrical circles of St. Petersburg. She served at the Theater named Komissarzhevskaya, he worked at the Comedy Theatre. In addition, she starred in the movie. On account of its work in the films “you Know, mom…”, “my Dear man”, in the series “Secrets of investigation”, “Streets of broken lamps”, “COP war”. Valeria didn’t like to give interviews and to go on secular parties. Ivan told me that his mother was very proud of his accomplishments, but wanted to stay as far away from his publicity.