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Yakov Smirnoff

Yakov Smirnoff (born January 24, 1951) is, (according to his own description), a Russian-born United States comedian.

Smirnoff was born in Odessa, Ukraine, at the time part of the Soviet Union. He came to the United States in 1977 and became an American citizen on July 4, 1986. He has appeared in several motion pictures and on television. Since 1992 he has been a fixture at Branson, Missouri.

He also invented the "In Soviet Russia" jokes, which frequently appear in many online communities.

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