Trivia

In his book "Nepoladki v russkom dome" Sergey Kara-Murza wrote that "Ryazanov and the artists close to him, consumed by anti-Soviet feeling, lovingly reflected and thereby in many ways created a certain social and spiritual world - and this world turned out to be possible only when it was surrounded and protected by the crude structures of the Soviet way of life.".

Ryazanov's main genre was tragicomedy.

Ryazanov had an acute ischemic stroke in November 2014.

He won the Nika Award for Best Director in 1991 for the film Promised Heaven.

He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1984, and received the USSR State Prize in 1977.

Eldar Ryazanov was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries.

The Irony of Fate is still aired every December 31 in most post-USSR countries, except for Ukraine since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity.

In 1937 his father was arrested by the Stalinist government and subsequently served 18 years in the correctional labour camps.

A street in Moscow was named after him in 2017.

Ryazanov began to create films in the early 1950s. In 1955, Ivan Pyryev, then a major force in the Soviet film industry, suggested to him to begin work on his film Carnival Night. At first, Ryazanov refused, as he wanted to make "serious films", but then was convinced to begin, as Pyryev believed that "anybody could shoot a melodrama, but only a few can create good comedy.

The asteroid 4258 Ryazanov is named after him.

Terminated his membership in the Union of Cinematographers of Russia headed by Nikita Mikhalkov. (marzo de 2010)

Hospitalized with severe pain in Neurosurgery department of Moscow Central Hospital. Undergone treatment for spinal disease. (agosto de 2010)

Hospitalized in Cardio-surgery department of Moscow Central Hospital. Undergone surgery for vascular disease. (febrero de 2010)

Hospitalized in Cardio-surgery department of Moscow Central Hospital. Undergone carotid artery surgery for vascular disease. (diciembre de 2008)