Tarapunka and Shtepsel. Humorous Miniatures

Humorous miniatures are presented by a duo of people’s actors of the Ukrainian SSR (once there was such a republic within the former Soviet Union): performers of variety comedy-satirical numbers Tarapunka and Shtepsel (Tymoshenko Yuri Trofimovich and Berezin Efim Iosifovich). In the 50s–70s of the last century, this duo was one of the most popular in the USSR. The 12 miniatures included in this almanac reflect the specific “style” of the duo: when one of the performers (Berez in-Shtepsel) speaks Russian, and the other (Tymoshenko-Tarapunka) speaks Ukrainian (but absolutely understandable to Russian-speaking listeners).

<u>Table of contents</u>
01. Let’s get acquainted (6:22)
02. The exam (5:05)
03. Who knows bigger than songs (3:12)
04. Could have been worse (6:25)
05. About education (2:45)
06. About our wives (6:46)
07. Overcaution (6:18)
08. I was born in a farmstead Kazyulka (3:14)
09. Tarapunka’s relatives (5:49)
10. With principled rightness (3:01)
11. Tarapunka the hunter (6:16)
12. On the day of March 8 (3:09)