Khizri Zapirov

Hizri Nadirovitch Zapirov (, born November 13, 1995 in Gerga) is a Russian prankster and blogger.
Biography
Hizri was born November 13, 1995 in the village of Gerga, Kayakent district of Dagestan. His father: Nadir Zipirov, mother: Zazay Zapirova . Hizri has 2 younger sisters. He finished 3 classes of school in Gerga, then moved to the town of Borzya of Zabaikalskiy District, where he studied until the 10th class. Then he returned to Gerga and finally graduated the school. In 2012 he entered the Moscow Institute of national and regional relations at the faculty of municipal management, which he graduated in 2017.
In May 2017 Hizri registered his profile at Instagram. Primarily he became famous by doing dangerous pranks involving wild animals, such as a bear, lion, tiger, crocodile, and snakes. At the beginning of 2018 he reached 1 million subscribers, in August 2018 2 million. In November 2018 he reached 2.4 million subscribers in Instagram.
Some users found his pranks too dangerous and created a petition to block video content, which collected more than 88 thousand signatures.
Hereinafter, Hizri focused on new provocative prank ideas - a fake bomb at the airport, dummy store employee at «Pyaterochka», a ghost at subway and others.
 
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