Mukhtar Gusengadzhiyev
Mukhtar Magomedsharipovich Gusengadzhiyev (; born May 20, 1964, Izberbash, Dagestan ASSR, USSR) is an actor of circus, film and television. Master of Yoga. Biography. Gusengadzhiyev was born as a Dargin. He studied at the Izmailovo Circus Studio (1989), the Darginsky Theater Studio (1990-1991), the Roman Theater Studio Raffaello Sanzio (1999-2000), the Cirque du Soleil acting studio (Montreal, 2003). His profession sent him to different corners of the planet, to different continents, instilling love for different cultures and religions. He lived in thirty countries of the world, where he studied different directions of acting and performed at the  most prestigious stages. His great experience on stage brought him to the cinema. He is also engaged in drawing and music. In 1996, he became the owner of the title most flexible man in Europe at the International Yoga Congress in the Canary Islands. In 1998, Hollywood Broadcasting Company FOX-11 signed a contract to showcase his body's capabilities to the whole world and record it in the Guinness Book of World Records as The World's Most Flexible Man. He performs on the stage of the famous ZUMANITY Theater of Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, appears on Los  Angeles television, Black Belt and Kung Fu magazines. He is a frequent guest of educational institutions of different levels and directions, where he is invited to hold seminars and meetings with students. On April 2, 2018, Mukhtar was sentenced to 22 years of strict regime with compulsory treatment for pedophilia, the creation and storage of child pornography.