Because most eJuggle articles are in English or Spanish, and many jugglers don’t know any Russian, it was suggested to me to curate a collection of Russian juggling videos, especially older or lesser known ones, that many readers may not have seen before. I will also try to include some of the best examples of the videos of Russian and Soviet jugglers that you may be familiar with as well. I hope you enjoy these twenty videos. Feel free to contact me with further examples that I can consider adding to this collection in part three. I do know that some of these jugglers have immigrated to other countries and may consider themselves a new nationality. I also apologize if I’ve mistaken someone as Russian who is actually from Ukraine or another country. We’ll start off with some jugglers and videos that might be familiar to you already.
Wjadscheslaw Anokhin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_kqLiYSIM
Diana Gracheva
Two Miagkostoupovs
Valentin Chernov
Dmitry Chernov
Pavel Evsukevich
Boris Panfilenok (Buba)
Kristina Kokorina
The Four Afanasjews
Gratchinow
Israfilov
Eduard Abert and the Aberts
Massimiliano Truzzi
Jenny Jaeger
Gena Shvartsman Cristiani
Serge Flash
Yury Ermolov
Andrey Markov
Karina Yusupova
Svetlana Zueva
Alexander Kulakov
I hope to eventually do a third part of this collection, so please feel free to send me more videos that you feel should be in part three.
David Cain
David Cain is a professional juggler, juggling historian, and the owner of the world's only juggling museum, the Museum of Juggling History. He is a Guinness world record holder and 16 time IJA gold medalist. In addition to his juggling pursuits, David is a successful composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and singer as well as the author of twenty-six books. He and his children live in Middletown, OH (USA).