Moscow: Comedian Evgeny Petrosyan was urgently hospitalized from his apartment in Moscow and is currently in intensive care.

According to Azeri-Press News Agency, the actor is suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding and is being prepared for surgery.

Yevgeni Petrosyan, recognized as one of the renowned comedy figures of the former USSR, was born in 1945 in Baku to an Armenian-Jewish family.