Russian Personalities

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Category Archive: Television

Irina Slutskaya, figure skater

Irina Slutskaya, figure skater

Irina Slutskaya, figure skater


Irina Slutskaya is a Russian figure skater, Honored Master of Sports. Now she is a presenter of sports news on Channel One. She achieved extraordinary results in her sports career. You know, she is a silver medalist of the 2002 Olympic Games, bronze medalist of the 2006 Olympic Games, two-time world champion (2002, 2005). By the way, Irina is the first single skater in history to become a seven-time European champion. Also she is a four-time Grand Prix Final Champion and a four-time Russian National Champion.
At the moment she is the chairman of the presidium of the Voluntary Physical Culture Union, the deputy of the Moscow regional Duma.
Pretty girl was born on February 9, 1979 in Moscow, Soviet Union. Her father worked as a teacher in college, and her mother was an engineer at the car factory before retirement.
Ira was a weak child, and her mother decided to strengthen her daughter’s health by involving her in sports. At the age of four the future Olympic champion began to skate.
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Vera Sotnikova, actress and presenter

Vera Sotnikova, actress and presenter

Vera Sotnikova, actress and presenter


Vera Sotnikova is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter.
Pretty girl was born on July 19, 1960 in Stalingrad, USSR. A year later the city was renamed to Volgograd. There were two children in the family – eldest daughter Galina and Vera. The girls and their parents liked to go to exhibitions, museums and theaters. Their mother wrote poems and their father wrote military memoirs.
In her school years Vera participated in amateur performances, recited poetry and played in school plays.
She came to Moscow to study at the Moscow State University. However, the girl entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School.
The creative biography of the actress began in the early 80s. The first role in the movie Vera played in the film Recognize Guilty, which was released in 1983. The debut was a success, the actress was noticed by film directors, and from that time she regularly appeared in the new films.
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Anastasiya Chernobrovina, TV presenter

Anastasiya Chernobrovina, TV presenter

Anastasiya Chernobrovina, TV presenter


Anastasiya Chernobrovina is a Russian TV presenter, journalist. In 2015 she became laureate of the TEFI Award.
Pretty girl was born on April 10, 1977 in Izhevsk, Udmurt ASSR, USSR. At first she worked as a journalist on regional television in Izhevsk. In 1996 she entered the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. Then the girl worked as a presenter of the program News at 11 on Russia channel.
From 1998 to 2001 she worked in the program Day By Day on TV-6 channel.
You know, Anastasiya was a host of the national contest Girl-2000.
Together with Anatoly Kuzichev, she was a host of the program Great Swimming on TVC channel from 2001 to 2002.
By the way, she was the presenter of Russian Morning on Russia 1 channel.
Actually, in 2007, she won a prize at the European TV competition Erasmus Euromedia Award for the film Phenomenal Twins, or How We Won the Eurovision in the nomination Best social project.
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Tatiana Tsiplyaeva, most charming TV presenter

Tatiana Tsiplyaeva most charming TV presenter

Tatiana Tsiplyaeva, most charming TV presenter


Tatiana Tsiplyaeva is a TV host of the news programs on TVC channel.
Pretty girl was born on January 1, 1970. Her father is Professor of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI). He is an author of many works on his specialty, a real scientist. Her mother was an aviation industrial engineer and for many years worked in the Flight Research Institute.
You know, Tatiana was a very active child. She performed at all parties, sang songs, played the role of Snow Maiden in the kindergarten, but she was terribly afraid of Santa Claus.
By the way, Tatiana was a Queen of the Ball of the Russian press-99. Actually, she has the official title The Most Charming Presenter.
Tatiana graduated from the Moscow State University and worked as a Russian language teacher for foreigners. She met her husband at the university. They have son Sergey.
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Tatiana Zavialova, model and TV presenter

Tatiana Zavialova, model and TV presenter

Tatiana Zavialova, model and TV presenter


Tatiana Zavialova is a famous Russian model and television presenter. She began her career in 1993, becoming a prize-winner of one of the most prestigious competitions held by the Elite modeling agency.
Pretty girl was born on June 12, 1974 in Magadan into the family of a serviceman. When Tanya was 6 months old, her family moved to the town of Nikopol, then to Lutsk, Karaganda, Alma-Ata, Moscow.
In the capital, the little girl looked at the world with open eyes, and not through the prism of the monotonous and boring life of military towns. The future model was struck by what she had seen. The girl lived her usual life with little joys and insignificant problems. But beautiful celebrities including Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford proudly looked at her from the screen of the TV and pages of glossy magazines. Tanya had a dream. The girl wanted to join her idols on the stellar Olympus.
At the age of 19, Tatiana easily won the famous contest The Look of the Year (later renamed Elite Model Look). Thanks to this victory Zavialova got a ticket to the international final, held that year in Miami. There she managed to become only the third, but the result was a triumph for the girl. To tell the truth, Tatiana became one of the first Russian girls who managed to rise so high. So, Tatiana became one of the models of the Elite agency and moved to New York.
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Liza Arzamasova, Russian actress

Liza Arzamasova, Russian actress

Liza Arzamasova, Russian actress


Liza Arzamasova is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter, singer.
Pretty girl was born on March 17, 1995 in Moscow. She began to play in films when she was only 4.
You know, Liza played the main role in the musical Annie directed by Nina Chusova. In 2004, at the 9th theater festival Moscow Debuts the young actress was awarded the audience award for this role.
A year later, Arzamasova debuted at the Moscow Academic Music Theatre, New Opera as little Anastasia Romanova in the opera Anastasia. And in 2007 she played the role of a Girl-Jesus in the performance of the Moscow Art Theatre The Pillowman directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.
The debut of the young actress was in the television series Line of Defense, where Elizaveta played a small daughter of the chief of police. And already in 2002 Arzamasova played in the film The Ark. During the following 5 years the actress played in more than 10 different projects.
Elizaveta became popular after the TV series Father’s Daughters, where she played Galina Vasnetsova, one of the main roles.
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Elizaveta Oliferova

Elizaveta Oliferova - Russian actress

Elizaveta Oliferova – Russian actress


Elizaveta Oliferova is a Russian theater and film actress, singer, TV presenter, composer, poet, director, screenwriter. Liza was a TV presenter of Tam-Tam News, The Tower and I Know Everything.
Pretty girl was born on May 22, 1984 in Moscow. At the age of 5 she was engaged in dancing. During one of the dance classes in the choreographic group, little girl was noticed by the director of the children’s TV program Good Night, Kids! So, he invited her to take part in his program. After the release of the program Lisa was invited to other children’s TV programs.
At the age of 11 Lisa became the presenter of the children’s information and entertainment program Tam-Tam News. Then she became a presenter of the popular youth program Tower. Boris Korchevnikov and Kirill Kozenyashev were her co-hosts. Cute girl interviewed many prominent figures of Russian show business, including Ilya Lagutenko, Kristina Orbakaite, Sergey Zhukov, Yuri Hoy, Yuri Aizenshpis, Marina Khlebnikova and others. To tell the truth, her knowledge of English allowed to interview Western artists, including members of the group Deep Purple.
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