Igor Kirillov
Igor Kirillov | |
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_.jpg) Kirillov in 2018 | |
| Born | Igor Leonidovich Kirillov 14 September 1932 |
| Died | 30 October 2021 (aged 89) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | USSR (1932–1991) Russian (1991–2021) |
| Occupation(s) | Announcer, TV presenter, radio host, TV journalist |
| Years active | 1957–2021 (His Death) |
Igor Leonidovich Kirillov (Russian: Игорь Леонидович Кириллов, 14 September 1932 – 30 October 2021) was a Soviet and Russian news presenter, announcer and actor.[1] He was a news anchor for Soviet Central Television (CT USSR) and an announcer for the CT USSR news program Vremya.[2] He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.
Early life and career
Kirillov was born on 14 September 1932, in Moscow in the family of a serviceman, engineer-major of his father Leonid Mikhailovich Kirillov (1904–1979) and his mother's profession of librarian, Irina (Rebecca) Veniaminovna Kirillova (1901–1995)[3]. He entered the VGIK, graduated from the first year, but due to circumstances was forced to leave. In 1955 he graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School.
From 1955 to last 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.[4]
In 1968, he was mainly the news presenter of news program Vremya till 1987 and served for at least 25 years on television, along with that he often gave the New Year's address to the people in the absence of the Soviet leader as 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 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Moscow Olympics, the death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev and his successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, and the Chernobyl disaster. Kirillov also accompanied dignitaries, notably Soviet leaders, on their official visits to foreign countries to do reporting on location. He retired from on-screen appearances in 1990, but he still appeared with his voice-over talent on various openings, television advertisements and radio bumpers and also he read the text for Minuta Molchanya from 1976 to 1983, from 1990 to 1991 and 1996 till 2011 and posthumously retained the conclusion. In later years, he appeared on television in various programs and made public appearances.[5]
Awards and honors
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1982)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1988)[6][7].
- USSR State Prize (1977)
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2011)
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2006)
- Order of Honour (2018)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
References
- ^ Трагедия семьи Игоря Кириллова
- ^ 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.
- ^ Игорь Кириллов. Голоса мастеров
- ^ Fyodor Razzakov (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.
- ^ "ЭФИР НА ДВОИХ. Игорь Леонидович КИРИЛЛОВ — о возрождении на нашем ТВ парного ведения информационных программ". Новая газета. 8 May 2003. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
- ^ Названа причина смерти Игоря Кириллова
- ^ Диктор Анна Шатилова назвала причину смерти своего коллеги Игоря Кириллова
External links
- Жизнь артиста: Игорь Кириллов // ТК-Інтер (видео)
- Профессия длиною в жизнь // journs.ru
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| Artists | |
- 1932 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century Russian male actors
- 21st-century Russian male actors
- Male actors from Moscow
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
- Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the USSR State Prize
- Radio and television announcers
- Russian male journalists
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male stage actors
- Russian male voice actors
- Russian television journalists
- Russian television presenters
- Soviet journalists
- Soviet male film actors
- Soviet male stage actors
- Soviet male voice actors
- Soviet television presenters
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia