Kuklachev's representative spoke about his condition

MOSCOW, April 16 The condition of People's Artist of the RSFSR Yuri Kuklachev is stable, doctors plan to transfer him from intensive care to a regular ward by the end of the week or April 22, he said representative Olga Cardokienė.
“Yuri Dmitrievich’s condition is stable. He is being rehabilitated, everything is fine. Now there is a very strict rest, they are carefully monitoring that Yuri Dmitrievich complies with it and does not start working and planning,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

She added that they plan to transfer Kuklachev from intensive care to a regular ward by the end of the week or on April 22.

On April 12, Kuklachev became ill at his anniversary concert “The Kindest Clown” at the Vegas City Hall; he was taken away in an ambulance with heart complaints, the artist’s son said. The general director of the Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue, Edgard Zapashny, reported that Kuklachev was in serious but stable condition; he had a massive heart attack.
Russian clown and trainer, People's Artist of the RSFSR Kuklachev was born on April 12, 1949. Since 1967 he performed at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. In 1971 he graduated from the State School of Circus and Variety Arts. Since 1990 he has run his own theater of trained cats. He became the first Russian director of circus acts with trained cats. The theater has received many international awards, including the Gold Cup and the title of «The Most Original Theater in the World», received during its Paris tour. The life and work of Yuri Kuklachev are dedicated to the documentaries “With a Kind Smile” (1980, directed by Yuri Dubravin) and “The Cat and the Clown” (1984, Sergei Vologdin).