VILDANOV, Airat Gilfanovich

VILDANOV, Airat Gilfanovich (30.11. 1948, Derevnya Mamadalevo of Dyurtyu­linsky Raion of the BASSR — 16.10. 2012, Moscow), Circus Artist, Animal Tamer. Merited Artist of the RF (1993) and BASSR (1977). After graduating from the Bashk. Circus Studio at Ufa Circus (1973), he worked in the Bashk. circus team; since 1990 — in the various programs of the Russian State Circus Company (Moscow); since 2009 — as an Artist at the Great Moscow Circus in the Vernadsky Avenue. He is the creator, head and a performer in such performances as Horseback Acrobatics with Monkeys, Sabantuy, Sange, etc.