Igor Kirillov

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Igor Kirillov
Игорь Леонидович Кириллов (2018-11-27) .jpg
Kirillov in 2018
Born
Igor Leonidovich Kirillov

(1932-09-14) September 14, 1932 (age 88)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet Union USSR (1932–1991)
Russia Russian
(1991–present)
OccupationAnnouncer, TV presenter, Radio host, TV journalist
Years active1957–present

Igor Leonidovich Kirillov (Russian: Игорь Леонидович Кириллов, born 14 September 1932) is a prominent former news anchor for Central Television of the USSR (CT USSR), the main state broadcaster of the Soviet Union. He was an announcer for the 9:00pm CT USSR news program Vremya.[1]

Early Life and Career[]

Kirillov at the unveiling ceremony of A.M Prokhorov Statue (2015).

Kirillov was born on September 14, 1932 in Moscow in the family of a serviceman, engineer-major of his Father Leonid Mikhailovich Kirillov (1904-1979) and a his Mother of a professon on librarian Irina Veniaminovna Kirillova (1901-1995). He entered the VGIK, graduated from the first year, but due to circumstances was forced to leave. In 1955 he graduated from the Higher Theater School named after M.S. Schepkin.

In 1955-1957 he was an actor at the Moscow Drama and Comedy Theater (now the Taganka Theatre). In July 1957, he began working on television at the Shabolovsky television center as an assistant director of the Musical Editorial Office of the Central Television of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting. He also worked as a stage director, literary critic, and film critic. Two and a half months after coming to television, he went on the air, winning the announcer competition. From 1961, he was admitted as a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[2]

In 1968, he was mainly the news presenter of news programme Vremya till 1987 and serve for at least over 25 years on television, along that he often spoke to a New Year's address to the people instead of the absence of the Soviet Leader in 1982, he alongside his colleague Nonna Bodrova, was the news frontman of the Soviet Union's state-owned network for all of the nation's pivotal events since the 1950s, covering the annual celebrations of state occasions, the death and funeral of Leonid Brezhnev and his successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, and the Soviet government's decision to invade Afghanistan in 1979, the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, as well as the Moscow Olympics the following year. Kirillov also accompanied dignitaries, notably Soviet leaders, on their official visits to foreign countries to do reporting on location. He retired to on-screen appearances in 1990, but he still appeared on his voice-over talent on various openings, television advertisements and radio bumpers and also he read the text for Minuyta Molenchanya from 1976-1983, 1990-91 and 1996 till 2011 and posthumously retained the conclusion till today. Periodically he appears on television to this day, and participated on some numerous programmes and made public appearances up to this day.[3]

Recognition and Awards[]

Kirillov in 2006 wearing the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree.
  • Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (March 10, 1968)
  • People's Artist of the RSFSR (April 21, 1982)
  • People's Artist of the USSR (August 05, 1988)
  • State Prize of the USSR (1977) - for artistic and publicistic coverage of social and political events on journalism.
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree (November 16, 2011) - for great services in the development of domestic television and many years of fruitful work.
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (November 27 2006) - for a great contribution to the development of domestic television and radio broadcasting and many years of fruitful activity.[4]
  • Order of Honour (June 29, 2018) - for a great contribution to the development of national culture and art, the media, many years of fruitful activity
  • Order of Friendship of Peoples (November 14,1980) - for the great work in the preparation and holding of the Games of the XXII Olympiad.
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (October 31, 2005) - for merits in the preparation and holding of festive events dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
  • Honourary Prize of the Russian Academy of Television "TEFI" - "for Personal Contribution To The Development of National Television" (1998)
  • Honourary title "Man Of The Era" (2001).

References[]

  1. ^ Philo C. Wasburn (2002). The Social Construction of International News: We're Talking about Them, They're Talking about Us. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-275-97810-5.
  2. ^ (2009). Книги Раззакова о великих артистах (ed.). Гибель советского ТВ. Тайны телевидения: от Сталина до Горбачева, 1930-1991. М.: Эксмо. p. 524. ISBN 978-5-699-33296-0.
  3. ^ "ЭФИР НА ДВОИХ. Игорь Леонидович КИРИЛЛОВ — о возрождении на нашем ТВ парного ведения информационных программ". Новая газета. 2003-05-08. Archived from the original on 2012-03-01.
  4. ^ Decree of the Russian President Vladimir Putin issued on November 27, 2006 honouring Kirillov Archived October 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
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