Igor Kondratyuk son Daniel. Igor Kondratyuk: “I lack human joys

It seems that in addition to all of the above, Kondratyuk is also the only person on the planet who speaks as quickly as Tina Kandelaki. We talked quickly and at length about television, talents, family and simple human joys.

You can’t immediately count how many projects on Ukrainian television are involved in the search for talents. Apparently, the producers proceed from the fact that Ukraine is indeed full of talents and there will be enough of them for everyone. But after all, the more talents, the lower the cost of each individual, the less interest in it - isn't it?

No I do not think so. I believe that the more talent there is, the more likely it is that there will be talent that is really, really cool on a global scale. It's like football in Brazil. As for Russian talent shows, I am not a spectator of them, but I heard that some people find our program “Ukraine Got Talent!” more interesting than its Russian analogue "Minute of Glory" - not in the sense of the participants, but in the sense of the program itself. We must proceed from the fact that the participants - they are always good. It was from this that I always proceeded in the program “Karaoke on the Maidan”.

We have successfully recovered from the epidemics of intellectual TV shows, glass reality shows, and now we are carried away by talent shows...

What does it mean "had been ill with intellectual shows"?

- They are still going, but they have not aroused their former interest for a long time and do not give exorbitant ratings ...

Compare ratings “What? Where? When?", which celebrates its 35th anniversary, today's and twenty-five years ago - is simply meaningless, because then "What? Where? When?" there were no competitors. In each independent, that is, just dependent at that time, republic there was a national channel and there was another nationwide channel on which this program was broadcast. How could she possibly have competitors? That's why the ratings were crazy. It's not very natural - such ratings. And now the number of channels far exceeds the number good passes on these channels. But, on the other hand, people have long been watching not channels, but actually programs. You don't watch Brain Ring and What? Where? When? is that what you mean?

- Yes, that is right.

It is these programs that I consider intellectual, and not “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” - it's more of a show, albeit with elements of "non-dancing" and "non-singing". There are "one and a half" intellectual shows in Ukraine, one of which is "The smartest". I believe that it is impossible to get over this and these shows are needed. Because these shows show, in general, that it is very beneficial for some people to read books, and the more the better.

But the viewer's interest in already known formats - intelligence shows, talent shows, reality shows - is not eternal. They're still going, but...

They are coming, but please note that the third and most successful Ukrainian "Star Factory" can no longer be called reality, it is the same reality as "Chance". This is a slightly simplified reality show. Behind the Glass is a reality show, yes. Although I say that “Karaoke on the Maidan” is a reality show: the program is filmed for 50 minutes, and it is shown for 40-odd, that is, we just throw out the dirt.

What will be the next format that television will try to attract the viewer? “Hello, we are looking for mediocrity!”?

No no. See: it's clear why people are looking for singing talent - to listen later good songs in their performance. It is clear why people want to see the sandbox Ksenia Simonova (winner of the first season of the show “Ukraine Got Talent!”, - approx.) - in order to understand what it is: A - perhaps, and B - maybe, later, sometime to participate in her work, in the sense - to see the cartoons that she draws. And “Hello, we are looking for mediocrity!” - I want to understand who the customer is. TV viewers cannot be the customers of such a show. The viewer already sees a lot of mediocrity, in different guises.

- To look at Ivanushka the Fool - why not a motive?

No, not a motive, because Ivanushki the Fools are present in our programs, which are called political shows. There are a lot of them. These shows can be called "Hello, we are looking for mediocrity." And, what is most surprising, they still find them. Just recently I was asked: do I agree with the phrase: talents need to be helped, mediocrity will break through on their own. I want to emphasize that mediocrities do not break through on their own, at least not so high that everyone knows them. They pull mediocrity, because it is beneficial to have mediocrity near you.

On the other hand, maybe everything will turn out like with humorous programs. After all, what turned out to be their dominance? The fact that now in the best and funniest of them they simply read newspapers decorously (I'm talking about ProjectorParisHilton).

There's actually a cool level of discussion there: it's very accurate, very funny, and very well played. There are 4 good actors.

- But they play without masks and red wigs at the same time.

I have always been impressed by people who are humorous in life - it doesn’t matter if they work on a collective farm or they work on the screen. Everything they do is funny, they are at the level of humor that I understand and that I have always liked. There were also skits in KVN when they leafed through newspapers. And sometimes it was funny, sometimes it wasn't. But for a long time they manage to do it funny.

- Yes that in KVN! Raikin leafed through the newspaper: “So, where is our feuilleton? There is no feuilleton! Nothing to read."

Yes Yes. Well, there are people who are funny in life. And when Svetlakov comments on TV in Nasha Rush, not everyone can do this either. "ProjectorParisHilton" is a program that shows that you don't always have to go out of your way.

And yet television prefers to be naked. Once upon a time (not so long ago on an eternity scale) people were impressed by the arrival of a train. Now, in order to at least slightly interest the television audience, in live you have to eat spiders.

Television shows people all the positive and negative sides that a person has. Eating spiders and other even more extreme shows can be seen in Thailand for a long time, and Bangkok - to go there, go to nightclubs and see things that just stand on end. But since not all people can travel to Thailand, television decided to show them this, so to speak, beauty. This is absolutely not mainstream. This is one of the quirks of television, it has a right to it. This is just one of the genres - not the most numerous and not the most rated. I am far from thinking that television will die soon, because television, in principle, is the transmission of a picture over a distance.

- And the only question is what kind of picture it will transmit.

I don't know what it will convey. Playwrights say that there is a certain number of dramatic lines, and that is all. It is possible that television has already shown us everything existing genres: entertainment, sports, infotainment, dry news, serials - endlessly stupid and just endless, though not stupid. Will reality shows get more sophisticated? It will depend on life. You can make a reality show "I want to be an astronaut", but for this you need stations that you can fly to, and flying should be easy and cheap. Until miniature cameras appeared, there could be no talk of a reality show. I do not rule out that someday a camera will be implanted in the eye, and reality shows will repeat what you saw in the movie "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis.

Despite the fact that the interview began with such skeptical questions, I admit that on a talent show in general and in the show "Ukraine Got Talent" in particular, real discoveries happen, touching numbers that cause something like a catharsis in the viewer - I'm not afraid of this words (I had to watch several issues in a large company). At these moments, you are truly happy for Ukraine: contrary to popular notions that a Ukrainian is envious and greedy, the viewer does not envy someone else's success, but rather rejoices. What's the matter - do anecdotes slander or is the power of art so great?

- “Ukrainian is greedy and envious” - this could only be said by people who lived with a Ukrainian in the same apartment. I can list them: Russian, Belarusian, Estonian, Georgian and so on. The Ukrainian is good, sympathetic and very correct. Recently, on a direct line in a newspaper, I heard that there are four thousand people who want to help Lena Kovtun (a blind singer from the show "Ukraine Got Talent!", Who received a standing ovation from the audience and the jury after her first performance - approx.) Solve her problems with vision, opened a bank account. As for envy, it's a good envy if one player, looking at another, wants to play the same way as him.

Hollywood has long realized that a man from the people who suddenly becomes a star evokes sympathy automatically. Celebrity press secretaries make up carbon copy stories that Madonna came to conquer the heights of show business with twenty dollars in her pocket, and Brad Pitt worked as an animator in fast food and wore a chicken costume. Admit it, if during the casting you had to choose between two equally talented participants, but one would be the son of a tractor driver, and the other an oligarch, who would you prefer?

This is a dramatic question. I think we would have gathered the staff of my company and thought for a very long time who would really be more interesting to the viewer. In fact, you can turn this way and that. Kozlovsky's father is an electrician. And Assol is not an electrician at all. From the point of view of such a superficial sensation, it is better to write that the daughter of a combine operator performs at Eurovision. Or that the daughter of police major Alyosha performs at Eurovision.

The phrase "nature rests on the children of geniuses" - in the same place, not only geniuses were meant (geniuses are generally a single product), but the fact that children famous people are under such an energetic and economic cap of their parents that it is much more difficult for them. Try to become a famous hip-hopper if you are the child of an oligarch. What hip-hop is for an oligarch is the culture of the street, but there are also very talented and absolutely creative people there. The daughter of the famous Russian billionaire Potanin is a terribly independent young lady: she is a multiple champion of Russia in water skiing. And this cannot be achieved simply because your dad is an oligarch. And I don’t know which champion found it harder to achieve such results: the one whose parents don’t care about her, because they earn a living day and night, or the one whose dad can already provide for the whole family four generations ahead.

- And what, curiously, does the second one have to win? Premium - clearly not her story.

That's it. Golden youth show their talents more difficult.

- Was your path to fame, popularity, success - was it simple?

I had an absolutely calm and understandable path. The main principle that I have always been guided by is to do what interests me.

- Apparently, this is the main principle of the oligarch's daughter, who has gone skiing.

Yes. And then she makes a name for herself. And I got to where I got to, thanks to circumstances and the fact that in some situations I made a choice. I could choose science and you would never know me. I'm definitely not a genius, so you wouldn't talk about me as a laureate Nobel Prize. I would be a scientist, one of many and, in general, would also enjoy life.

Was there anything pseudo-Hollywood?

No, I didn't get into big city with twenty dollars. I went to everything gradually: I graduated from the university, transferred to the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, received a salary of not 20 dollars, but 120 Soviet rubles and began to earn extra money from the student bench. This is in Kyiv, and I started working like this after the sixth grade. I have always understood that in order to buy books that I loved and love, I need to study, I need to work.

- What have you been working with since the sixth grade?

Always worked during the holidays. After the sixth and seventh - a laborer on the collective farm, after the eighth - already, in my opinion, an assistant combine operator. I worked on collective farms and state farms in the Kherson region, where I come from, because my relatives lived there and it was easier for me to get a job, although Soviet time Everyone could work on a collective farm.

- It's a pity, then there was no program "The smartest"!

Yes, I like it now and I would like it then. But at that time I liked the program “What? Where? When?” and I got there.

- Do your children want to be stars?

Don't know. Obviously all kids want to be stars. They don’t formulate it that way, but they want the whole family to pay attention to them, then the whole street, then the whole school. But do they want to do something that people will talk about? For the younger ones, only parents act for admirers and admirers. This is trite, but it is important for me that my children live healthy, in comfort with their conscience and benefit the people around them.

- And what does the eldest son do?

Looking at him, I understand that not everything is easy for my children. At present historic moment he does nothing at all. He changed jobs, dropped out of university because he didn’t pass his tests and felt that he didn’t need it. Now he is trying to enter the Karpenko-Kary University, the organization of television and cinema. The other day I tried to get another job, but something did not work out.

- Do you help?

He worked - for me and for my friends, in different film crews. But, you see, I want him to learn to be independent. Because... Well, because I have such a vision. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

- You don't seem to have to make excuses.

No, but many say: why don't you help your son? But I told him a long time ago: I will study for you and will not solve problems. Because it is alien to me, by definition. He also started working after the eighth grade, but then he matured, and employers had other requirements for him ... He can carry tapes with me. But I don't want him to be at that level.

- Maybe you should turn from a father into a producer and try to see the hidden talents?

It is difficult to be the producer of your child. I told Serezha that I still don’t know where to invest money in him: in the sense, not in which pocket, but in what kind of activity, in which of his desires. He needs to sort himself out - anything can happen.

No, it's hard for me, like everyone else. This job is facilitated by the fact that we work with a large number of people. And we always have a good and honest excuse: you, of course, well done, but before you we were already better. And it’s good that you don’t work alone, that there is a collective brain of the jury, that the public helps with its reaction.

By the way, have you ever had to consult a psychologist? It is generally accepted that public people recuperate not only in a sushi bar and sauna, but also on the psychoanalyst's couch.

No, I haven't been to a psychologist. And about sushi and sauna - I don't understand that either. I can relax just fine by watching a good football match just sitting in the office.

- Do you support Dynamo?

For Dynamo, although my last trip abroad was for the game between Shakhtar and Fulham in London. Unfortunately, this did not help Shakhtar, just as my support in Barcelona did not help Dynamo either. I root for Dynamo, the national team and all Ukrainian clubs that play on the international arena. We don't have the same pain as in Spain when the Real Madrid fans want Barcelona to lose in the Champions Cup. The loss of Shakhtar to Fulham hurt me just as much as the fans of Shakhtar. I relax on football, I travel, I can fish outside the city with my children - and that's enough for me.

- I was going to ask what human joys you're missing, but apparently the question is in the wrong place, fortunately.

I think I have enough human joys. Complaining about their absence is pointless. If you are able to realize that you lack some kind of human joy, you are able to organize it for yourself. It is clear that not everyone can afford such joy as a trip to Australia, for example, but here you still need to think hard about whether this is a human joy.

- How do you spend your weekends in your family?

In order for everyone to be happy, we all need to sit down and go near Kyiv - to the Bolivar ranch or an ostrich farm, that is, so that we visit nature and see something new. Now we are building a house, we have almost finished it - I hope that we will spend the weekends outside the city. At least a third of my weekends a year are taken up by filming the Karaoke on the Maidan program. When I play What? Where? When?" (and this year I will play), I'm flying to Moscow for the weekend. And the wife and children on such days go to the cinema to watch a new children's film.

Igor Vasilievich Kondratyuk - participant of the program “What? Where? When?", TV presenter of Ukrainian television, star of the show "X-factor", "Karaoke on the Maidan".

Igor was born on March 14, 1962 in the village of Prigorye, in the Kherson region, in the family of the chairman of the district executive committee. While studying at school, he became interested in the exact sciences, dreamed of comprehending the science of astronomy and learning to play the saxophone. In addition to studying, he attended the section ballroom dancing, sang in the choir. In the last classes, he worked part-time on a collective farm, helping in the harvest. For the first salary of 70 rubles, I bought an enlarger for a camera lens.

Having received gold medal, in 1979 he entered the Kyiv State University at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. He defended his thesis on the study of solid state optics. In 1984, he joined the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as a junior researcher, where, in collaboration with colleagues, he wrote more than 100 scientific articles devoted to the study of solid state physics. In 12 years, Igor will defend his Ph.D. thesis in biology.

"What? Where? When?"

Introduction to the game "What? Where? When?" took place at the university. In 1984, at the request of university students, participants in the Moscow program, Nikita Shangin, Marina Govorushkina, Valentina Golubeva were invited to a meeting in Kyiv. A year later, the graduates visited a historical shooting in Moscow. This event changed the biography of Igor Kondratyuk. In 1985, the young scientist passed the qualifying round for the television project What? Where? When?".

In December, he already played as part of the rookie team, which included Alexander Zuev, Vsevolod Belkin, Vladimir Molchanov and Alexander Sumarokov. In 1986, Igor's team already participated in Full game. Kondratyuk became a permanent member of the club, dealt with organizational issues. In the 90s he was a member of the team of Alexei Blinov, since 2004 he joined the team, which in 2008 won the Crystal Owl prize.

In 2010, Igor Kondratyuk failed to fly to the game in Moscow. The organizers of the event found a way out: in order not to deprive Andrey Kozlov's team of a player, Igor was invited to appear on the air using Skype.

Igor Kondratyuk did not seek to stay in Moscow, and after the events of 2014, he speaks negatively about Russia, comparing the neighboring fraternal state with "fascist Germany".

TV

Since 1991, Igor Kondratyuk has been working as a session editor television shows"Love at First Sight" and "Brain Ring". Igor also collaborates with Ukrainian television, where he becomes the host of the 5 + 1 program. Since 1999, the Inter channel (since 2009 - on 1 + 1 and STB) has been showing the folk show Karaoke on the Maidan, the author of the idea and host of which was Igor Kondratyuk.

Singing songs on the big streets of the city was customary small homeland Igor, the residents of the capital also liked it. Everyone who wanted to participate in the show. The participants sang folk and popular Ukrainian songs, and then best performer received a cash prize. On the Russian television similar transmission has been produced since 2006 on the TVC channel and was called "Karaoke on the Arbat", which was also hosted by Kondratyuk.

The popularity of Igor Kondratyuk on television makes producers invite the showman to new projects: in the intellectual program "LG" Eureka! ", the music shows" Chance "," Star duet and American Chance.

The Chance program, which started in 2003, aimed to discover new talents. How launch pad transfer used Quest group Pistols, performers Alexander Voevudsky, Natalia Valevskaya. and for 5 years musical show.

In 2009, the channel STB started musical competition"Ukraine has talent." 24 cities of Ukraine provided platforms for qualifying rounds, through which thousands of people wishing to participate in the show for the most talented Ukrainian went through. As a result, the selected 60 people were presented to the main jury, which at the first stage included presenters Igor Kondratyuk, Slava Frolova and choreographer Vlad Yama. At the same time, both TV presenters stayed in the judge's chairs for 9 seasons of the competition.

In 2010, another musical show "X-Factor" started on the STB channel, in which Igor Kondratyuk entered the judging panel. According to the rules of the project, people could participate in the competition different professions performances were broadcast live. Each judge had a team of contestants that he led throughout the competition. Kondratyuk participated in the filming of the first 6 seasons of the program. Wards of the TV presenter twice became the winners of the show. In 2013 she won, in 2015 - Kostya Bocharov.

Often the programs that Igor produced and hosted received a high audience rating. So it was with the programs “Karaoke on the Maidan” and “LG “Evrika!”, As well as with the entertainment TV show “Chance”. The author of the projects already has five statuettes of the Teletriumph award.

Personal life

Igor Kondratyuk is a father of many children. Together with his wife Alexandra Gorodetskaya, an economist by profession, the showman raised three children - sons Sergei, Daniel and daughter Polina. Now Sergey works as an assistant director on the project "Karaoke on the Maidan", Daniil joined the X-Factor program team. The daughter studies at the capital's gymnasium, defended the honor of the Kyiv archery team at the Ukrainian championship.

The personal life of Igor Kondratyuk is considered impeccable, but journalists are constantly trying to attribute novels to the respectable family man on the side. For a long time there were rumors that Igor was in love affair with X-Factor graduate Aida Nikolaychuk. The Kondratyuk family only laughed at the speculation.

The singer also denied the rumors, saying that she was going to marry the sound engineer of the TV project Dmitry. The wedding did not take place. In 2016, Aida began dating race car driver Nikita Podolsky, who had already proposed to the girl. Photos with the groom and pictures wedding ring the newly minted star posted on the Internet, on her own page on Instagram.

Igor Kondratyuk now

In March 2017, Igor Kondratyuk celebrated his 55th birthday next issue long-lived program "Karaoke on the Maidan". The program is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest show on Ukrainian television: the 950th episode of the program took place in April.

The next season started in March 2017 musical project“Ukraine has a talent”, which this time only children participate. Igor Kondratyuk was invited to the jury of the competition. The winner of the competition was 6-year-old Veronika Morskaya.

Projects

• "What? Where? When?" – 1985
• "Love at first sight" - 1991
• "Brain Ring" - 1991
• "5 + 1" - 1992
• "Program for Tomorrow" - 1995
• "Karaoke on the Maidan" - 1999
• "Chance" - 2003
• "Star Duet" - 2006
• "Ukraine has talent" - 2009
• "X-Factor" - 2010

- Sergey, of the three children of Igor, you are still the only one who has delved into the scope of his father. When did you first get interested in directing?

The program "Karaoke on the Maidan" is in its 15th year, and I often came to film set to the father. Since 2003, he began to earn extra money there: he brought coffee to his father, then he looked after the cameras. And later he began to work in the project "Chance", then - on the set of a movie, with other people. Although initially he entered the Shevchenko University at the Faculty of Economics. And, most likely, it was one of my biggest stupidities ...

- Why stupidity?

I'm not good at math, unlike my parents. And he entered the economic, rather, "weakly". Once, when we were choosing a university, my mother said: "There is mathematics in Shevchenko - you definitely won't get in!" Although initially there was an option to enter Moscow or study at Karpenko-Kary. As a result, I passed mathematics, entered, but it turned out to be not even interesting to study. There was some desperation.

- Hopelessness, perhaps, from the fact that you continued to look for yourself?

I sat in class and did not understand what I was doing here. I felt like I was in the wrong place. When higher mathematics "bound" with economics appeared in the program, I was completely lost and disoriented. As a result, it all ended with the fact that he flew out of the second year. And out of stupidity - I thought that I had passed the test, and went to rest. Upon his return, it turned out that the credit had not been set then, and tomorrow the dean is already stamping the deduction.

- True, with a fairly good financial position father you worked as a teenager from an ordinary family?

I really got lucky. Because not every student, having flown out of the university, can afford not to starve to death. But the father in this regard is quite tough. In the first month after the expulsion, I could not find a part-time job on television projects, so my father looked askance at my "parasitism". For two months we practically did not communicate with him, but later everything returned to normal. I tried to enroll in culinary courses, was engaged in direct sales. As a result, having decided, he entered KNUKiI at the directing department. And now, when I have already moved to a separate apartment and go about my business, my father has calmed down. He is even glad that I understood from my own experience what is "good" and what is "bad" in the sense of work (smiles).

"Dad is a gold medalist, I am a silver one"

- Your father gave a significant part of his life to science. Is that why he took your expulsion so hard?

I think yes. He is a gold medalist in school, a PhD in biology, a member of the club of connoisseurs. The only thing I can brag about is a silver medal at school. And then it was received by ... father (smiles). During the awarding, they made a reservation, saying that it was not Sergei, but Igor Kondratyuk who received the medal! Dad got up, silently walked onto the stage, took the medal and left with a smug smile (laughs).

How often do you see your father now?

Every week on the set of "Karaoke on the Maidan", where I now work as an administrator, assistant editing director and music editor.

- Have you already encountered bias due to the fact that you work with Igor in the same project?

“Have you never been popular with your father?”

It seems to me that this is the prerogative of my younger brother Dani and sisters Polina. Now, at the request of my parents, I wedged into their educational process. If Danya does not always listen to his parents because of his teenage maximalism, I try to become an authority for him. But while Danya for some reason unquestioningly listens only to my girlfriend (laughs). It is a pity that I did not have an older brother whom I could listen to before committing another stupidity in life.

"There are plans for the wedding, but we are not in a hurry"

- By the way, has your girlfriend already introduced you to her family? (The parents of Olya, whom Sergei has been dating for two years, live in America. - Auth.)

Last year I spent the winter holidays there and met Olya's parents, grandmother and great-grandmother. I think they received me well. And in Ukraine, my girlfriend only had a grandfather on her mother's side. Knowing that he former employee The KGB, to tell the truth, I was more afraid of meeting him than anyone else. But grandfather turned out to be a very nice, good person.

- Have you introduced your parents to Olya for a long time?

Yes, much earlier than she did me with hers. It's funny, but dad called Olya a different name for some time after they met, but soon corrected himself. I had no doubt that mom and dad, trusting me, would treat my girlfriend well.

- Have you already thought about the development of your relationship? Igor told us in October that he was not yet mentally ready to become a grandfather ...

To be honest, I'm not going to become a father myself yet. If we talk about the wedding, then, on the one hand, I want to, and on the other, I understand that this is a rather serious step. Right now we just live together. We are not in a hurry to get married.

- Various gossip is often launched about Igor Kondratyuk. Which of them do you remember the most and how does the family react to them?

I remember numerous articles “Kondratyuk has an affair with Mogilevskaya!”, “Kondratyuk has an affair with Kuzma”, “... love with an X-factor graduate” ... Reading about my father’s next “novels”, my mother and I laugh (smiles).

- Do you have any traditions in your family?

Parents are trying in every possible way to make sure that we meet with the whole family more often: me, mom, dad, Danya and Polina. On weekends we usually go to the cinema and go bowling.

- Can you call your father your friend or do you have a more distant relationship with him?

It would be nice if my father was my friend! But I am only now gradually revealing to him some moments from my past. Knowing my father, I understand that he does not need to know about everything that happened to me when I was younger.

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" continues to publish a series of interviews with children famous TV presenters and artists in which stellar offspring take off the masks from their parents and reveal them from a completely different side.

AT next issue heading "Celebrity Children" read an interview with the son of the popular TV presenter and showman Dmitry Kolyadenko - Philip.

BY THE WAY

About the secrets of the youth of the TV presenter

- Sergei, your dad at 51 looks 35-40! It seems that since the beginning of his career, he has not changed in appearance. What is the secret of his youth?

I think that this is still the merit of heredity. And he does not eat everything and does not smoke, and practically does not drink. But recently he set up a treadmill at home, which made the whole family laugh. Although he claims that every day he runs on it for 10 minutes. And push-ups from the floor twenty times. But none of us has ever caught our father doing this.

Igor Kondratyuk - biography

Igor Kondratyuk is one of the most famous showmen in the Ukrainian show business, a producer, a jury member of several talent shows and a permanent host of the Karaoke on the Maidan TV show. How did his career develop, and what Interesting Facts not known about it yet? Igor Kondratyuk biography.

Education: Graduated from the Faculty of Physics, Kyiv State University. T.Shevchenko, majoring in solid state optics

The popular TV presenter was born in the small village of Prigorye, which is located in the Kherson region. Date of birth - March 14, 1962, according to the sign of the Zodiac - Pisces. As a child, Igor was a calm and reasonable boy, loved to read, was very hardworking and even then showed interest in the exact sciences, being fond of astronomy. The future showman had a great desire to learn how to play the saxophone, he sang in the choir, and also went to the ballroom dancing section. While studying at school, Igor helped his parents, working as an assistant to a combine operator and receiving a good salary. Love for science and a great desire to learn helped Igor Kondratyuk become a gold medalist. After leaving school in 1979, Kondratyuk entered the Faculty of Physics of the Taras Shevchenko National University.

After graduating from the university, he became a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine. My television career Igor began in 1985 with participation in the cult intellectual program “What? Where? When?". Since 1991, the popular showman has been actively working on television, starting as an editor on the television shows Brain Ring and Love at First Sight. Soon the leader will switch to Ukrainian television- Igor Kondratyuk becomes the host of the 5 + 1 project, and in 1999 he begins to host the folk song program Karaoke on the Maidan. After the projects in which Kondratyuk becomes the host and producer, there are more - “LG “Eureka!””, “Chance”, “American Chance”, “Star Duet”. In the TV show "Ukraine Has Talent" and the X-factor, Igor occupies one of the judge's chairs.

Not much is known about the wife of Igor Kondratyuk, since she is not a media person. It is known that Alexandra Gorodetskaya is an economist by education, now she works financial director. The future husband and wife met at work. The host's marriage is considered one of the strongest in show business. Kondratyuk is the father of three children. His eldest son Sergei worked as an assistant on the Karaoke on the Maidan and X-factor projects and continues to build a career on television. Daughter Polina has a lovely ear for music, and also enjoys sports - at the Ukrainian Archery Championship, she successfully spoke for the honor of the Kyiv team. Igor also has a middle son, Daniel.

In 2010, the presenter became one of the jury members of the popular talent show in Ukraine "X-factor", hosted by Oksana Marchenko. The first composition of the show looked like this - Igor Kondratyuk, singer Elka, rapper Seryoga and musical critic Sergey Sosedov. At the end of the sixth season, the famous presenter announced his decision to leave the show. The stages of the show are as follows:

Producer precasting. Telecasting - participants speak to the judges and, based on the results of the judges' vote, a decision is made whether they go further in the show or not. Selection of contestants - according to the results of the competition, the judges select 12 performers (into four categories). Live broadcasts - each performer performs in front of the audience and judges with a song. Based on the results of the voting of the judges and the audience voting, the loser is determined, who leaves the show. Final - two superfinalists are determined, the winner is chosen by the audience during the weekly voting.

Igor Kondratyuk was considered one of the most reasonable, fair and strict members of the jury, for whom the most important thing was how the contestant sings and how much the audience might like his image. Most often, Igor's wards reached the Superfinal. In the first season, Marina Rak became the superfinalist, in the second - Oleg Kenzov, in the third season the ward Aida Nikolaychuk won, in the fourth season Trioda went to the superfinal, in the sixth the victory went to his ward Kostya Bacharov.

Other TV projects

Igor Kondratyuk was also known as a judge of the talent show "Ukraine has talent". The purpose of the show is to find the most talented Ukrainian in the country, who will receive a super prize of 1 million hryvnias. The winner is determined by SMS voting.

The TV project "Chance" became the first Ukrainian talent show, which started in 2003. The winner of "Karaoke on the Maidan" became the ward of the presenters Natalia Mogilevskaya and Kuzma Skryabin, who were supposed to make a real star out of him in a few hours.

Few people know about such facts from the life of a popular presenter as:

Igor Kondratyuk - author 105 scientific papers in molecular biophysics. In 2008 Andrey Kozlov's team “What? Where? When?, in which Igor was one of the participants, received the "Crystal Owl". Over the years, he received six prestigious awards in Ukraine "Teletriumph". An avid fan of the Dynamo football team. Likes to write poetry. He was a producer of famous pop singers Vitaly Kozlovsky, Natalia Valevskaya, Pavel Tabakov, Alexander Voevudsky. He was also a co-producer of the Aviator group.

Igor Kondratyuk remains one of the brightest media personalities, who plans to create a unique author's musical project.

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Ukrainian TV presenter, producer, showman

Born March 14, 1962 in the Kherson region in large family he has two brothers and two sisters. At school he worked as an assistant combine operator. With a gold medal in 1979 he graduated from the Kalanchak high school № 1.

In 1984 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the Kyiv state university named after Taras Shevchenko (specialization - solid state optics). After graduation, he worked as a researcher at the Department of Molecular Biophysics at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Author 105 scientific works in molecular biophysics, in collaboration with other scientists.

On television since 1985 - since gaining membership in the What? Where? When?".

Since 1990, he worked in Moscow as a public relations showman, editor and assistant presenter in the programs of the Ostankino television company - Love at First Sight and Brain Ring.

In 1992-1994, Igor Kondratyuk hosted the TV game "5 + 1" on the UT-3 channel, in 1995-1996 - the game "Program for Tomorrow" (UT-1).

He was a co-organizer and host of the matches of the national teams of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus of the program “What? Where? When?" on the UT-1 channel.

Igor Kondratyuk came up with the program "Karaoke on the Maidan" together with his godfather Andrey Kozlov. Andrei Kozlov baptized his middle son Danila.

Kozlov is a television director and producer, as well as the captain of the What? Where? When? ”, In which Igor Kondratyuk plays.

From 2001 to 2006 - leading and Chief Editor program “LG Intellect Show “Eureka!”.

In 2006, he was the host of the Karaoke on the Arbat program (TVC, Moscow). Producer of the Star Duet project at Inter (production - V.I.K. Studio).

In 2009 - one of the three judges of the first season of the talent show "Ukraine Got Talent!" on the STB TV channel.

Igor Kondratyuk - winner of a number of television awards, including 5 awards national award Teletriumph. In particular, in 2003 "Karaoke on the Maidan" was recognized as the best music program, and "Eureka!" - the best project for kids. "Chance" is the best entertainment 2004-2006

Igor Kondratyuk is married. Wife Alexander (Gorodetskaya), sons Sergey and Danila, little daughter Polina.

Igor Kondratyuk saw the accountant Alexandra Gorodetskaya at work. Now she is the chief financial officer.

Igor Kondratyuk - ardent football fan. On weekends, together with his wife, he often flew abroad for UEFA Cup matches with the participation of Dynamo Kyiv.