Mikhaïl Chouïdine

Mikhail Ivanovich Shuydin (; 27 September 1922 — 24 August 1983) was a Soviet clown and acrobat-eccentric. People's Artist of the RSFSR. From 1950 he worked in the arena with Yury Nikulin, Member of the Great Patriotic War.

Biography Shuydin was born on September 27, 1922, in the village of Kazachya in the Shchyokinsky District of Tula Oblast to a shepherd's family. He lost his parents early on in his life Jubilee Medal Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 Jubilee Medal Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 Medal Veteran of Labour Jubilee Medal 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR Jubilee Medal 60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR Medal In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980)

Memory In November 2011, in front of the circus in Kursk, a monument to Yuri Nikulin and Mikhail Shuydin was erected.