In Moscow, at the age of 80 years, the opera singer Zurab Sotkilava died.

Zurab Sotkilava, the general director of the Moscow "Bolshoi Teater", Vladimir Urin, fought a serious illness.

"Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava, a wonderful artist of the "Bolshoi Teater", died. He had a serious illness with which he fought to the end," Urin said.

About the farewell time and funeral will be reported additionally.

Zurab Sotkilava was born in Sukhumi in 1937. In his youth, he