Igor Emilievich Kio was a Russian illusionist with the Russian State Circus was the son of the legendary magician Emil Kio (1894-1965). He began to work with his father at age 5, eventually replacing him in the act in 1960. Upon the death of his father in 1965, he inherited the act, which he continued to present in the Soviet Union and all over the world well into the 21st century.