Director of the "Ural pelmeni" Alexei Lyutikov: the creative path, the causes of death

Alexei Lyutikov, whose biography is presented in the article, was one of the brightest participants of the game in KVN. After leaving the command "Service Entry" in 1997, he disappeared from the screens. His fate was little known to the man in the street, until in August 2016 the media reported about his death in the hotel of Yekaterinburg.

The way to KVN

A native of a small town Fatezh (Kursk region), Alexei Lyutikov was born on 2.06.1974. He was born with a hare lip and was subjected to ridicule and mockery of his peers. Already then there were problems with the heart, for the boy could not help but worry because of child cruelty. Salvation was the school KVN, on the stage of which he caused deafening laughter in the auditorium. But it was a different laugh-a reaction to witty jokes without teasing him. The fascinating game became his destiny.

The young man suffered five complex operations on his face, but the consequences of a congenital anomaly remained noticeable until the end of the day. Having worked out the principle that one can rely on oneself only for oneself, Aleksei Lyutikov, KVN for whom he became a vocation, entered the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Kursk. After receiving the profession of a social psychologist, in 1993 the young man became a member of the team of hens "Service entrance".

The frontman of the KVN team

Young men in checkered jackets did not go long to their success. Already in 1997 they reached the semifinals with brilliance, having beaten in the face-to-face meeting the popular team "Ural pel'meni" in the 1/8 finals. Among them stood the captain - Alexei Lyutikov, uttering jokes with an absolutely serious expression. He was followed with interest, he was quoted as saying:

• "This is for the Jews country, and for us - a stop."
• "We work on the ass sponsor's bread."
• "KVN heals the corns!".

After the team did not pass the semifinal stage, the frontman left the team because of disagreements with the guys. They were considered leaders of the 1998 season, but without their captain flew out at an early stage, unable to move further to a professional level.

Follow-up, private life

Lyutikova managed to catch on in Moscow, but he did not go on stage any more. He created a family early, so he needed to get to his feet. Since 2006, Alexei Lyutikov began to cooperate with the Comedy Club, leading the direction of regional development. His job was to create branches of the stand-club on the ground. Since 2013, he began working with the "New Channel", and in 2014, he was appointed Executive Producer of First Hand Media, headed by Sergei Netievsky. He headed the humorous show created in 2009 "Ural pel'meni".

By that time, Lyutikov already had two children: a son, born when Alexei was only 20, and a daughter who was successfully engaged in rhythmic gymnastics. A little later, she will enter the youth team. Never missing her responsible starts, in August 2016, this tradition was for some reason violated by Alexei Lyutikov.

"Ural pel'meni" - the latest showman project

"Ural pelmeni" needed a professional who knew firsthand the Moscow show business. In the summer of 2015, the team had a conflict with the leader Netievsky, whose company belonged to the trademark of the creative team. Despite the fact that he brought the guys to the STS and did a lot for the team, there were disagreements about the further development of the project. The leadership was taken over by Sergei Isaev, and there was nobody to do business in Moscow. So in the "Ural dumplings" appeared Alexei Lyutikov.

He is accused of blaming the conflict and the lawsuit, as a result of which Sergei Netiyevsky regained the post of the head of the show. There was a process to return the founders of the trademark. While engaged in financial affairs, Lyutikov presented the children with documents, from which it followed that the incomes of the head differed significantly from the artists' fees. Whatever it was, he himself went into the work with his head, signing an unprecedented contract for the team - 12 appearances in Sochi in the summer of 2016. On his return from the tour 2.08.2016 he was supposed to fly to his family in Moscow, but for some reason he returned from the airport to the hotel Angelo.

Causes of death

On 10 August, the maid of the hotel discovered his corpse. The whole week he spent alone in the room, devastating the mini-bar, and then ordering cognac from the restaurant. Suffering from heart failure, the body could not cope with the abundance of alcohol. Presumably, the showman died from thromboembolism, falling with a head loss on the table. As a result, the face turned out to be a wounded glass fragments from a glass, so the version of violent death was originally put forward. The artist's family refused to initiate criminal proceedings, recognizing the fact of death from natural causes.

It remains a mystery why the showman did not fly to Moscow. These days his daughter participated in demonstration performances, and for the first time his father was not in the hall. What was Alexey Lyutikov thinking about in the last few hours? "Ural pelmeni" in the official appeal recognized his contribution to the development of the creative team and expressed condolences to the family and friends. And in the press, rumors spread about the possible debts of Lyutikov and the alleged termination of the contract with him.

Real lovers of KVN really regret that once the talented captain of the kurans decided to leave the stage.