52 years ago, on April 25, 1968, the shooting of the film "The Diamond Arm" began. The tape instantly fell in love with the viewer and remains popular until now. The plot of the picture is well known to everyone, as well as the fact that the foreign East was shot on the ancient streets of Baku. However, few people know that another attraction of Azerbaijan was highlighted in the film - traffic controller Kurban Mazanov. It is he who stands in a snow-white uniform on Asaf Zeynalli Street and makes a chaotic stream of participants in the movement. Even a camel obeys the wave of his hand.
Kurban Mazanov really was a representative of this now extinct profession, which was not uncommon in the middle of the 20th century. The director of the film Leonid Gaidai noticed the handsome handsome foreman in the capital of the Azerbaijan SSR when he arrived in search of nature. Traffic controller Mazanov was a true virtuoso of his business: clear, honed movements, elegant body turns and a wide, open smile.
Baku People often came to the crossroads of Chkalov and Kommunisticheskaya streets, where there was a government post, opposite the Philharmonic, to look at the outstanding work of the foreman.
There Kurban Mazanov, most likely, was seen by Gaidai and decided to add an episode with his participation in the film. So traffic controller Mazanov began a new career, this time in the movie. Later he appears in yet another Gaida tape - “Ivan Vasilievich is changing his profession”. Fellow countrymen did not ignore him. We can see Kurban Mazanov in the Azerbaijani films “Life tests us”, “Heart ... heart”, “Leo left home”. So the regulator Mazanov became perhaps the most popular representative of his profession in the USSR.
