Ruslan Bely

Ruslan Viktorovich Bely (born 28 December 1979, Praga, Czechoslovakia) is a Russian comedian, producer, television host and humorist. In the past, he was a regular participant of Comedy Club, a member of the KVN team "Sedmoe nebo", as well as a participant in TNT television projects: "Smekh bez pravil", "Uboynaya liga", "Uboynoy nochi" and "Comedy Battl". He is the creator and producer of the show Stand Up. He was born in Praga, where his father was serving at the time. When Ruslan was 11, his family moved to Poland, where they lived for 4 years; when he was 14, the family moved to the city of Bobrov in Voronezh Oblast. His father wanted him to become a military man, so after school Bely entered the Voronezh military aviation engineering university.

As a cadet, Ruslan became interested in KVN and was a participant of the Voronezh team "Sedmoe nebo", with which he won the "Maly KiViN v svetlom" in Yurmala in 2004. He served five years in the Russian army, holds the military rank of captain, and was awarded the Medal "Za otlichie v voennoy sluzhbe" of the III degree. After his army service, he entered the Voronezh state agrarian university named after emperor Petr I. In the mid-2000s, he began participating in the Voronezh branch of Comedy Club, where he met Yulia Akhmedova. He was invited to the show "Smekh bez pravil", and after the third invitation took 1st place, winning 700,000 rubles, with which he bought an apartment in Voronezh.

In September 2013, he created the show Stand Up, becoming its producer. In 2017, he organized the show for beginning stand-up comedians "Otkryty mikrofon", becoming one of its mentors. In April 2020, together with psychologist Olga Kuznetsova, he created a YouTube project titled "Chuzhie pisma". On 1 September 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared him a foreign agent. He spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He married in 2022, and in 2023 the couple moved to Barcelona, where their daughter was born.