Project " amazing people ” will provide an opportunity to show the participants their unique abilities, which are difficult for an ordinary person to believe in. "Amazing People" - Russian adaptation worldwide famous show The Brain, which was successfully launched in Germany in 2011 and was adapted into different countries, including China, USA, France, Italy, Spain.

show production « amazing people» the company was engaged « white Media", which previously presented to the audience such projects as "Weighted People" on STS, "Big Change" on NTV, "Love Conveyor" on "STS Love". This time, everyone who has any unique abilities was invited to participate in the show.

About Amazing People

Casting for the show amazing people launched in May 2016. The participants of the project were people with amazing
mathematical abilities, rare stereoscopic vision, as well as people who can recognize hundreds of shades of taste, are able to smell a person in a crowd, or know all dinosaurs by their skeletons. The channel received more than a thousand applications for participation in the project. Also, the creators of the show visited more than 40 cities in Russia, CIS countries and neighboring countries, conducting qualifying rounds unique show.

Casting editors watched about 500 hours of video with the performance of potential participants.

In August 2016, the final casting of the project took place in Moscow. The creators of "Amazing People" chose from over 500 participants - 48 people with the most unusual and amazing abilities.

8 contestants take part in each issue. Candidates for victory will have to pass a test that will allow him to demonstrate the uniqueness of his abilities. At the end of each issue auditorium by voting selects one of the eight participants who made the greatest impression. This participant receives the right to compete in the final for Grand Prize project.

Star guests will help the audience to choose the best participant, who will comment on the performances of the participants. Star guests have the opportunity to intervene once in the course of the audience voting, and give one of the participants a chance to go to the final of the show.

The star guests of the show were the choreographer Yevgeny Papunaishvili, an athlete Natalia Rogozina and TV presenter Olga Shelest.

In addition, a professional assessment of the unique abilities of the participants will be given by the leading researcher of the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev. An expert can also influence the course of the program and provide one of the participants with the opportunity to reach the final.

And most importantly - "Amazing People" is not a contest of illusions, not a show of circus skills and paranormal abilities. The success of each performance has a scientific explanation.

Pass six qualifying rounds and end up victorious over your opponents Edward helped absolute ear for music, intuition and conviction that you can live, overcoming the most incredible obstacles. Representation of the surrounding world Nekhaev receives using the echolocation method and its unique hearing. Kuryan discovered his amazing ability to “see with his ears”, for which he received the nickname “dolphin man” on the Internet, in himself as a child.

Eduard Nekhaev has not yet decided where he will spend his money prize in the amount of one million rubles, but he knows for sure that with a part of this amount he will fulfill his old dream - he will record his own album, the single for which is already ready. It is worth noting that Edward is a graduate of the Kursk Music Boarding College for the Blind in vocal class. In addition, he masterfully plays several instruments and writes songs himself.

Show Amazing people. Interesting Facts

The age of the youngest participant of the project is 3.5 years.

During room preparation Mikhail Melin about a dozen glasses were broken.

Olga, a participant from Yekaterinburg, flew to Moscow to participate in the project, despite the fact that she has been in prison since the age of 18. wheelchair, is terribly afraid of flying and is in her fifth month of pregnancy.

Participant of the test on the skating track Nikita Klevchenya especially for the competition, he took from his father, multiple world champion Sergey Klevchen, skates that bring good luck.

For one of the tasks, the producers of the project found 48 pairs of twins who will be present at the shooting at the same time.

The fastest mental mathematicians of our country and the world take part in the "Amazing People" project.

One of the most famous participants the show became a little polyglot girl Bella Devyatkina. Bella's abilities amazed not only the presenter Alexander Gurevich and guests of the studio, but also Internet users. Video of a girl fluent in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Arabic with the carriers themselves, quickly became popular on Youtube

The second season of the project about people with high level intelligence and extraordinary mental abilities. Premiere of the show amazing people- 3 September. The project gives the participants an opportunity to show their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in! This is a project about the limitless possibilities of man. Show " amazing people"- Russian adaptation of the world famous show "The Brain".

The first season of the show started in 2016 and was an unrealistic success. The main prize - one million rubles - last year was taken by a blind musician from Kursk. As a child, he discovered absolute pitch who learned to use to see the world. After the project, he opened a training center for the visually impaired to talk about his echolocation method.

Show host " amazing people» - Alexander Gurevich. The jury includes celebrity guests Olga Shelest, Evgeny Papunaishvili, Natalya Ragozina and a leading researcher at the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev. In the new season, people from all over the world applied to participate.

Vasily Klyucharev: - I thought that after the first season it would be difficult to be surprised at anything. But it's not! I see some tasks in such execution for the first time in my life. Theoretically, everything can be explained, but to look at it is amazing! The viewer will experience the full range of emotions!

In the second season of the show amazing people» Participants will have to pass difficult tests. Each edition is attended by 7 contestants, and only one of them goes to the final. The auditorium decides his fate. The winners of all previous editions meet in the final.

Evgeny Papunaishvili: - I have genuine emotions, and once again they are absolutely sincere! The program is amazing! I just watch, enjoy, admire, wonder, comment, ask the participants questions and try to find out something about themselves and their abilities. This is one of those rare cases where we don't have to rate - and thank God, otherwise I would just burst out of doubt! It is very difficult to determine the winners, our participants are all unique in their own way! Let's see what choice the audience will make in the hall.

Natalia Ragozina: - This project is really cool! Many of the things that our members do seem absolutely incredible and inexplicable. But these are not tricks, but real abilities. real people! Even our expert cannot always explain everything! I come home satisfied, happy, and sometimes I even try to repeat something, for example, solve a Rubik's cube. After filming the first season, I became interested mental arithmetic and mnemonics. So now I am also engaged in self-development.

Amazing People season 2, release from 09/03/2017

In the first episode of the new season of the show, 7 people presented their incredible abilities to the audience. Came first on stage Alexander Goryachev from Voronezh, who received the nickname “flash drive” from the host of the program and man is an encyclopedia. The man has a fantastic visual memory. His task was to remember the appearance three gold fish selected by the jury, and then find exactly these specimens among 48 identical individuals. Alexander coped brilliantly with the task.

Second on stage Christina Karelina, a synesthetic girl. Her ability lies in the fact that the girl sees each melody in color, each note in her mind has a certain color. The test for her was the definition of a song sung by musicians by a set of colors flashing on the screen. Kristina I learned and was able to play all the proposed compositions on the piano.

The next to demonstrate his abilities Vladimir Shkulteti, a polyglot from Slovakia. He has 19 languages ​​in his arsenal, which he easily speaks and switches from one language to another. The man was offered to communicate with nineteen carriers different languages. Vladimir not only easy to find mutual language with foreigners, but also showed them a brilliant knowledge of the history of Moscow and St. Petersburg. As a result of the release Vladimir Shkulteti became the winner with 16 percent of the audience votes.

The youngest participant in the first edition was a ten-year-old Sofia Kiryan. The girl is fond of zoology and is a true connoisseur of frogs. Sophia They were asked to guess the number and breed of simultaneously croaking frogs by ear. The girl coped with the task without much effort.

The fifth on the stage was a participant from Mongolia Niyamgerel Gangkhuag. According to the girl, and can do with her feet what many people do with their hands. Her legs have incredible flexibility and coordination. A young participant shot at a target with a bow, holding it with her feet. The first shot ended in a miss, the rest of the arrows flew right on target. Ultra-precise shots Niyamgerel amazed the jury.

Alexey Shlega from St. Petersburg is fond of balancing. On the instructions of the presenter, he was able to install a mug, a laptop, a chair, a simulator and even washing machine. All objects were kept on the stones for quite a long time.

The speedcuber was the last to enter the scene. Vladimir Okenchits from Vladikavkaz. Near four years Vladimir collects a Rubik's cube for speed. On the air of the program, the guy had to blindly collect 7 cubes in 6 minutes, while being in a filling pool. The unique young man coped with the task, the audience gave him a standing ovation, chanting: “Well done!”.

Amazing People season 2, release from 09/10/2017

The second episode of the show started Ilya Gubenko from Krasnodar, demonstrating a unique memory. For him, the transfer studio was terminated in the largest registry office in Russia: 27 couples of brides and grooms took the stage. The jury members mixed the brides and grooms, breaking up the couples. Ilya in an unexpected way memorized the sequence of standing young people and was also able to voice the reverse sequence without making mistakes.

The youngest conductor, 11 years old, was next on the stage. Asadbek Ayubzhenov. The boy conducts professionally symphony orchestra. He was asked to learn a piece of music by observing the movement of the conductor's hands. The boy coped with the task brilliantly.

Julia Kamenskaya from Kazakhstan has stereoscopic vision and is engaged in the production of stereoscopic pictures. The woman was shown several pairs of videos, in one of the pair several were changed the smallest details. task Julia it was to find the differences between the two videos, she did it masterfully without making a single mistake.

The next to surprise the audience and the strict jury was the 18-year-old world champion in astronomy, Ivan Uteshev. The ceiling and walls of the studio turned into a starry sky, but the jury members removed a few stars by pressing the joystick. task Ivana was to understand what kind of stars disappeared from the sky. The young man with incredible accuracy determined exactly where there were not enough stars, and where extra ones appeared.

Sommelier Vladislav Markin from Moscow said that he could taste any wine. Before filming, the man worked in restaurants, after he graduated from a wine school. As a test, he was asked to taste the name of the wine, the grape variety and the place where it was made.

18 year old Nikolay Ershov is the so-called mnemonic, he remembers any amount of information offered. The young man is fond of cards, so he was given the task to remember playing cards shown on the screen and put them in the correct order.

Alexander Pokhilko from Moscow, despite his disability, leads an extremely active and interesting image life. In particular, Alexander paints pictures from memory, although he has no hands. In 5 minutes, a man had to memorize 50 portraits, and then write one of them from memory, selected Evgeny Papunaishvili. The artist coped with the task simply amazing.

Nikolay Ershov and Alexander Pokhilko received the most audience votes - 16% each - and passed the final of the show.

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First participant next issue the show has become Georgy Georgiev from Bulgaria, owning a fast mathematical calculation in his mind. His tasks were divided into three stages: in the first, the man extracted the root of ten-digit numbers, in the second, he divided ten-digit numbers into five-digit ones, and in the third, he was asked to name the days of the week for 72 dates in one minute. All stages George went well without any errors.

Dmitry Shelikhov from Surgut has an extremely developed memory. To test his abilities, 12 gymnasts were placed on a high multi-colored lattice, Dmitry had to memorize their location. And then tell on the beam what color each of the four limbs of the gymnasts is located. Dmitry I absolutely remembered all the colors.

The next to enter the stage was an eight-year-old Maxim Rusol from Voronezh - an outstanding football player. In his young age Maksim is already the owner of many football awards, with 36 goals to his credit. He was asked blindfolded to score 5 goals into the corners of the goal and under the top crossbar. One of the boy's balls flew off target.

Svetlana Belichenko from Arkhangelsk - mnemonic technician. She trained her abilities herself, with special emphasis on weak sides memory. Her task was to memorize 196 Japanese characters. The jury members chose several of the proposed symbols, calling them the coordinate method, as in the game " sea ​​battle", a Svetlana it was necessary to remember the hieroglyph standing at this place. The woman made a mistake only once.

Andrey Popkov from Tolyatti has an original ability - he can recognize the volume of a glass goblet by ear. On the instructions of the presenter, he had to determine the number of glasses of which it consists, and the level of water in them, by the sound of playing the “glass harp”. Andrew correctly named the volume of liquid in each vessel.

eighteen year old Roman Strakhov- speedcuber. He has been practicing his skills for a very long time, on this moment he can pick up a Rubik's Cube while blindfolded while riding his bicycle backwards. Roman gave the task to blindly disassemble the already assembled Rubik's cube according to the scan. The guy coped with the task so brilliantly that Yevgeny Papunaishvili suggested that Novel- an alien, not a man.

Artem Sofronov from Novosibirsk has a unique memory. The young guy had to memorize the names and places of study of 50 students, and then remember ten of them, selected by the jury. Artem reproduced correctly all the information about the students.

The winner of this episode was Roman Strakhov, who received 18% of the audience votes.

Amazing People season 2, release dated 09/24/2017

The first participant in the fourth edition of the show was a 6-year-old Ruslan Safarov from Kusarov, who impressed the Russian audience and the jury with his unique mathematical abilities. From the early age the boy's father works with him and believes that his son will become a great mathematician in the future. And Ruslan himself calls himself a “human calculator” and dreams of becoming a programmer. The task was to calculate several complex mathematical problems in several steps. The boy brilliantly coped with all the calculations.

Elena Kulyaeva from Sochi, at the age of 15, she already finished school and entered the university, and in free time doing taekwondo. The heroine achieved such results thanks to a phenomenal memory. The girl honed her fighting technique to such an extent that, on the instructions of the jury, she was able to deliver accurate blind blows without errors.

Next member, 33 year old Vasily Zakharov from Kazan - a trainer in memory development and speed reading techniques - demonstrated his unique abilities during an exciting test. He was asked to memorize the schedule of three schoolchildren for the week and help them pack their backpacks for school.

24 year old Anastasia Traubenberg from St. Petersburg - a wedding stylist and make-up artist - tried to prove that her fingers have a special memory. She was asked to blindly feel several bald young people, and then guess those who were chosen by the jury.

11 year old brothers Artem and Nikolai Vasiliev from St. Petersburg from the very early childhood they love animals very much, have unique knowledge about them and are even able to hypnotize. Before the eyes of the audience and the jury, the boys introduced a dog, a chinchilla, a chicken, a toad and a rabbit into a trance. And then it was easy to wake them up.

13 year old Arseny Tsybarov from Orel, who is seriously interested in aircraft engineering, demonstrated his knowledge in the show "Amazing People". He identified several aircraft from just one drawing of their engine.

The last of the participants in the show "Amazing People" was a 20-year-old native of Tyumen Daniel Yuffa- Grandmaster, three-time champion of Russia in rapid chess among youths. The young man is able to play blindly on several boards at the same time and has ear for music. Live show Yuffa will demonstrate how to play the piano and blind chess at the same time.

The winner of the fourth edition of the show was Daniel Yuffa, which received 20 percent of the audience votes.

Amazing People season 2, release from 01.10.2017

The next issue of the show "Amazing People" was opened by a 20-year-old student Alexander Kasatov- champion of Ukraine in sports memorization. He was asked to fix the sequence of 20 runners with the help of his eyes and then reproduce it. Alexander completed the task.

10 year old Valeria Pyatko from Novosibirsk can count faster than a calculator. A girl demonstrated instant arithmetic in action. This technique Valeria is trained specifically, using fingering when counting. The girl made a mistake only once.

The next participant was a 15-year-old Ksenia Demeshova from Lipetsk. The girl demonstrated to the jury the possibilities of her memory, which allow recording huge amounts of information. Especially for the performance of the young participant, 18 people were invited to the stage - visitors to the restaurant. On the menu, they had a choice of three positions of a hot dish, an appetizer and a dessert. After all visitors have made their order, the host of the program Alexander Gurevich asked one of the dancer's jury members Evgenia Papunaishvili play the role of a chef who took out orders for three guests. Xenia had to voice everything that is hidden under the covers. In the first order, the girl mixed up the appetizer.

Seven year old Kirill Ageev from Yelets showed excellent knowledge of the Moscow metro. The boy showed the ability to lay routes in his mind, demonstrated knowledge of the history of metro stations and the structure of its branches. A famous showman came to support the boy Alexander Fur.

Julia Pus from Krasnoyarsk, only 17 years old, but she already has remarkable acrobatic abilities. The young gymnast, using acrobatic techniques, tried to throw balls into 6 basketball rings, but the girl missed all 6 times.

Inhabitant of Tyumen Alexey Litvinov accepted, the choreographer of the famous formation ensemble "VERA", determined the style of dance without hearing the music. He saw only the projections of the dancers - they were wearing special suits with sensors. The screen displayed little men who had sticks instead of arms and legs.

"I can recognize any dance by the rhythmic characteristics of the sound!" Alexey Litvinov commented on his abilities.

Last contributor to this episode Narek Ghevondyan conquered the jury with a quick count of letters in any texts. He can do it in three languages ​​- Armenian, Russian and English. The jury was shocked by the ability Narek- a talent that he accidentally discovered in himself and began to develop further.

Amazing People season 2, release dated 10/08/2017

The first participant in the next issue was the 16-year-old Irina Drobitko from Lyubertsy near Moscow. The girl played a game of chess with Alexandra Selifonova in 7 minutes and collected 23 Rubik's cubes.

Evgeny Ivchenkov has spatial memory. In a short time, the young man remembered how the crossbowmen stood on the pedestals. The next part of his task was to blindly name the location and color of the arrows, each of which belonged to one of the archers. Eugene managed to cope with just one mistake.

Novosibirsk schoolboy Vladislav Shipulin impressed the jury of the show "Amazing People" - the boy was able to decipher two dozen QR codes in his mind to find among them false information. According to his mother, Vladislav did a lot of mathematical operations in his head to decipher the code.

Vladislav Chernykh- the mnemonic technician, the presenter, came up with an incredibly difficult task for the young man. In 5 minutes, Vladislav memorized the location of items in a kind of sports shop organized on stage. Further, behind his back, the jury members changed places of objects down to the smallest ones. The mnemonist was able to correctly guess all the movements, except for an upside-down American football ball with a lacing up.

Three year old Stephen Shuranov became the youngest member this issue show. In 4 minutes, the kid was able to put 10 pieces of the three assembled puzzles in their places, which the jury members had previously taken out. He became the winner of the show this week.

Vladimir Babets from the city of Serov has the ability to raise numbers from 1 to 100 to seven different powers. 10 numbers from completely different dozens appeared on the screen. They had to be taken to different degrees from the third to the seventh, and Vladimir Babets brilliantly coped with this task.

Evgeny Krasnov from Kazan has a photographic memory. Shortly before the broadcast of the program, the guy was given a mini-excursion along the Shlyuzovaya and Kosmodamianskaya embankments, where the guy had to take a good look at and remember the location of the buildings. Later, his task was to depict the panorama he saw from memory. Eugene did a great job.

In the 7th edition of the show on October 22, 2017, the jury and the audience were surprised, as usual, by seven participants from different cities of Russia. This week, a talented blind guy with a unique auditory memory, a young girl who easily determines the speed of a car without a special device, a coffee lover who recognizes any variety by taste and aroma, a connoisseur of 23 thousand digits of Pi, a unique decoder of binary codes, and also two mnemonics. The winner and another finalist of the show was Ilya Antonov, pi lover.

Episode 8 of October 29, 2017 is the last one before the show's second season finale. This time the jury was surprised by mental mathematics, professional billiards, knowledge of the roads of Moscow, blindfold chess on three boards, lie detection, plant recognition by touch and fantastic memory. The last finalist was the chess player Timur Gareev.

In the 9th episode of November 5, 2017, on the air of the Russia 1 channel, the name of the winner of the second season of the show Amazing People was announced. They became a 23-year-old Roman Strakhov from Zheleznogorsk, which is the fastest blind Rubik's cube in the world. Our compatriot is a six-time world record holder in the discipline "assembly of the cube 5x5x5 blindly", the current European champion in "4 * 4 blindly" and "5 * 5 blindly" and a two-time winner of the world championship.

“Winning the show changed my life, and if earlier speedcubing was nothing more than a hobby for me, then from that moment I decided to devote myself completely to the development of speedcubing and make it my main “profession”. A month ago, I left the company where I was engaged in software development, and this was my main source of income. But this decision was one of the best in my entire life, because thanks to Amazing People, I finally realized that speedcubing is my calling, ”Strakhov said.

In addition to being the winner of the second season of the show "Amazing People", Strakhov became the owner of a cash prize of one million rubles. Where to spend the winnings, Roman has not yet decided. “I will definitely not spend this money on travel, because thanks to speedcubing, I have the opportunity to visit different countries. I go to competitions, and many people around the world know me thanks to my records,” Strakhov shared his plans.

The candidate of biological sciences told interesting details

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The project "Amazing People" of the TV channel "Russia" (VGTRK) overtook its competitors in its ratings, and the participants of the show were able to amaze even the most demanding viewers. Eight contestants took part in each edition. Candidates for victory had to pass a test that would allow them to demonstrate the uniqueness of their abilities. The participants were given a professional assessment by the main expert of the program - leading researcher of the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor high school Economics Vasily Klyucharev. Journalists of the news agency Stolitsa met with Vasily Andreevich. They asked in detail about the truly fantastic abilities of the participants in the show and found out how all this can be explained with scientific point vision. Well, and most importantly, how much what the audience sees differs from what it really is.

30 seconds per comment

- Vasily Andreevich, tell me: why did you, a serious scientist, a person far enough from any such shows, agreed to take part in the Amazing People project?

- Indeed, my experience with television was limited to various scientific interviews or popular science programs. But this project provides an opportunity to reach a mass audience and talk about what modern psychology known about the brain. The idea of ​​interpreting the participants' speeches in terms of how their brains work seemed interesting to me. After all, many unusual abilities of a particular person can be explained by the peculiarities of the work of his brain. Almost everything that happens in our project has a natural science explanation. On the other hand, I was also interested because it was such a personal challenge: to explain everything that happens on stage online. For me, of course, it is very unusual and curious. I was worried, thinking about what would come out of all this. And I'm still afraid to look at myself on the screen.

What was the hardest part about this show?

- To be honest, keep the line between scientific and popular when explaining this or that phenomenon. The organizers asked to speak briefly and clearly. But not all scientific terms can be known to a wide audience. And at the same time, you run into some internal framework, because not every phenomenon can be explained plain language. Sometimes Alexander Gurevich and I ( host of the program "Amazing People". — Approx. ed.) talked after recording the numbers, during the technical rearrangements. I told him more than I said during the recording. And in response I heard: “Why didn’t you tell this on the air? It's pretty interesting!" But I was given a rigid short comment format. Was good example. The man tried to reconstruct and identify people's faces from a computer image of the skull. In principle, this is possible. We had such a classic - the Soviet anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov, who at one time reconstructed the appearance of Ivan the Terrible. Of course, it is impossible to do this with 100 percent accuracy, but you can determine the basic things. Similar reconstructions have many interesting examples and applications in real life! But since I had only 30 seconds to comment, it was not possible to tell in detail, in all details, but I would like to.

Unique abilities

- And there were people who have abilities that are inexplicable from the point of view of modern science?

“So far we haven't come across anything that can't be scientifically explained in one way or another. True, there was one controversial number. I stood up and said it was impossible. My colleagues and I agreed that something was wrong there. The number was really provocative.

Memory can be trained and strongly developed by special exercises. This is especially recommended for older people, when after 50 it begins to deteriorate.

- What is this number?

— A man with a black tight bag on his head was driving a car.

So he didn't see anything at all?

- Yes. He had previously seen a map of the area. But in terms of the nuances - how he behaved, how carefully the car stopped in the right places - I don’t believe that everything went there without some kind of trick. But it made a huge impression! One of the jury members rode next to him and did not notice any catch ...

Who else surprised you?

- There were people, of course, with phenomenal abilities. For example, Boris Golik. We agreed that we would meet with him and even examine him in our laboratory. He has a phenomenal working memory, and we are studying it in our research center. There are actually very few people who can play music backwards or pronounce words and phrases in familiar and unfamiliar languages. Because most of us have very limited working memory. We can remember a lot, but we can operate at a given second with a relatively small amount of information. And Boris simultaneously retains a large amount of information, can manipulate it: memorize texts and immediately turn them around. To an ordinary person this is not possible. I looked for research on this topic. An interesting scientific article was published a few months ago: a father and daughter with such abilities were discovered in Serbia. And the authors claim that these are genetically unique properties.

Human capabilities

Who else impressed?

- A wonderful girl Bella Devyatkina, who at the age of four perfectly knows seven languages: Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. She also reads on them. In principle, anyone can master a fairly large number of languages, there are records up to 40, but not in such young age. We have not yet contacted her on the topic of research, and it’s a pity to drag the baby to the laboratory. As I said, the vast majority of this or that ability can be explained scientifically. But when you read about similar properties of a person in scientific book- this is one thing, and when a living person stands in front of you, capable of remembering seven thousand digits, you experience some shock. Yes, I know it's possible. But it looks fantastic: thousands of digits after the decimal point of pi are running on the screen - and a person can name any one of tens of thousands in this volume! At the first moment, I even got confused. And then he explained that it was really possible, that it was possible to achieve such results with certain trainings.

To the question: “Is it true that what is shown to us is happening there?” - I answer: everything is really honest.

- That is, everyone, using certain techniques, can repeat this?

Well, not every ability can be developed, of course. But if you do not have memory problems, then it is really possible. My favorite example: when one journalist Joshua Foer wrote a book about people with hyper-developed memory, he interviewed them, and they all claimed that they had the most ordinary ordinary memory. He thought they were hiding something from him. How is it so: people memorize 10,000 digits and at the same time claim that their memory is no different from ordinary. The journalist decided to take part in their competition, to see from the inside what methods they use. He began to train for 20 minutes a day - he claims - and eventually won this championship, setting a world record. So this is a clear example of the fact that everyone can develop their abilities.

What was the easiest ability for you to explain?

- The ability of a project participant who, knowing the date of your birth, easily calculates what day of the week you were born. Any day - whenever it was: in the last millennium, or two weeks ago - unmistakably calls. It made an indelible impression on everyone. But since I had researched this issue a little before, I understood that this was not very difficult to do. This seems impossible if you just imagine a fat calendar. But there is a certain system according to which it is necessary to do from six to eight mathematical operations with the date of birth. Even I would calculate it on a piece of paper pretty quickly, but if you practice well, you can do this incredible trick and on stage. It shocked everyone in the audience, the audience was practically hysterical, and my modest remarks that it can be done, and it is not as difficult as it seems, did not make any impression.

Major discovery

There is a common phrase that talented person talented in everything. How fair is she?

- Yes, there is such an opinion, but it seems to me that there is no clear evidence for this. Of course, there are also multilateral people. We know geniuses who wrote poetry, and drew, and composed music. And there are people who are talented in only one thing.

But is it worth developing some of your abilities, nevertheless?

Research shows it's not useless. For example, studies of bilinguals - people who speak two languages ​​equally - show that they are better able to control various processes in life and in themselves. This is due to the fact that they have to constantly switch from one language to another, and this requires internal control. They are considered to be more successful. But you need to understand that training affects exactly the function that you train.

- What would you advise everyone to train in the first place?

- Memory. big opening psychology and neuroscience of the last decade - that it can be trained and strongly developed by special classes. After 50 years, memory deterioration begins, and such training can stop this process. And it is recommended for a lot of older people.

- That is, it is not too late to learn, for example, English at the age of 50?

Yes, it's definitely not too late. And this idea - that only in childhood can you learn foreign language- it is not true. Can be taught at any age. It's just that there are periods when all this is easier. By the way, at one time in scientific circles, the discovery that it was possible to stop age-related changes by training, not very strenuous, caused a shock.

- Have you discovered any new abilities in yourself during your participation in the Amazing People project?

- Colleagues who sat next to me discovered such abilities in themselves. Someone, for example, found that he very easily remembers faces, names - no worse than some participants. And I made a very good discovery for myself: that everything is fair in this project. In fact, often people who come across me ask me: “Is it true that what they show us is happening there?” There is always some doubt. But I authoritatively declare: everything is really honest. And some of the participants were really wrong, and I was very sorry, because I understood that they were very talented people, but something just went wrong - maybe there was not enough luck ...

Participants of the show "Amazing People" on the TV channel "Russia" amaze the audience unusual abilities of your brain. The jury members of the project - TV presenter Olga Shelest, choreographer Yevgeny Papunaishvili and Honored Master of Sports in boxing Natalya Ragozina - do not know how to multiply in their minds six-digit numbers or hitting a target blindfolded, but each of them is able to surprise others in their own way.

The amazing fearlessness of Olga Shelest

Surprised my husband. Olga has been together with clip maker Alexei Tishkin for almost 20 years. They met when Olga Shelest, a third-year student at the Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting, was hired as a host on the BIZ-TV channel, where Alexey worked as a producer. “At the first meeting, he seemed rude to me,” Olga admits. - He said with such an impact: “Tomorrow morning you will have a shooting on the street, don’t be late!” He himself was late for two hours, and we were all waiting for him in the terrible cold - it was the end of November. And then in the frame he made me eat ice cream and commanded take after take: “Eat, eat more! More fun, more joyful! I was swallowing chunks of this ice cream, my lips were blue, my fingers were numb, but I thought to myself: “Let me get sick and die, but I will never complain to this pompous monster.” And after filming, Alexei suddenly showed touching concern: he put me in a company car, took my hands in his and began to warm them with his breath. “I, accustomed to the fact that the girls are terrible capricious, Olina’s endurance struck on the spot,” says Alexei himself. “A few days later, I gave her an even tougher test of strength. We were filming a story in which Shelest had to master an ATV. And although she jumped on it over bumps up to three meters high, I did not hear a single squeak from her. How fascinated I watched how this girl fearlessly rushes on a rather dangerous thing, and ... fell in love! True, when Olga decided to train a tiger in the Circus with the Stars project, Alexei was less happy about her courage.

Surprised colleagues. If Olga struck Alexei with her fearlessness, then other colleagues - with its consequences. Once her passion for extreme sports led to a disastrous result. The waves threw Olga off the surfboard, hit the surfboard in the face and threw her ashore. “I touch my nose with my hand - and I realize that it is not there. He moved to the right and there he became of immense size, ”recalls Shelest. And in a few days she was to star in the film "Bride at any cost"! “I mentally said goodbye to the role and called the director,” Olga recalls. - He said that he would not have time to find a replacement and we would think of something: “In the end, we will shoot you from afar.” When I came to film set- everyone fainted ... Even if you shoot me from afar, nothing will work. Bruises under the eyes, and instead of a nose, a huge dove-colored potato. But then the make-up artist came, calmed everyone down and in half an hour made me the former beauty. Fortunately, everything has healed, they fixed my septum - the nose is now the same. Having given birth to two daughters, Olga left surfing. But she put her eldest daughter Muza on a snowboard when she was a little over a year old, which once again surprised everyone.

Surprised myself. In Amazing People, Olga was most struck by a girl who is only a year and a half older than her daughter and is already fluent in seven languages. “Our Muse goes to kindergarten, where children are given English language. And then we realized that the third language - French - would not be superfluous. I am in favor of developing superpowers, ”says the TV presenter.

The amazing energy of Evgenia Papunaishvili

Surprised by the book. Evgeny Papunaishvili, thanks to his gift, got into the Russian Book of Records - he held the most massive dance lesson in the country. “There were about two thousand people there. Of course, it was very difficult emotionally, because everything was based on incredible energy, but very cool!” says the choreographer. He has this incredible energy since childhood. “If I didn’t do dancing, something like this would have to be invented so that I could splash out my energy. As a child, I was engaged from morning to evening and dancing, and football, and I missed it. I was torn to pieces, and my coaches did not know how to curb me, ”admits Eugene. However, he soon found a way out himself: at the age of 12 he began to teach other children to dance, and at 14 he recruited a group of first-graders at school and began to officially teach. “Dancing is quite an expensive sport, and somehow I wanted to protect my parents from the costs, because they didn’t have much financial opportunities explains Eugene. “I wanted to earn money myself in order to pay for my classes, performances, trips to championships.” Now Papunaishvili has two dance schools. And he also has enough energy to participate in the show of the NTV channel “You are super! Dances" for children left without parental care, and to give free lessons dancing for everyone in one of the Moscow parks. The plans are to get into the Guinness Book of Records by arranging the most massive dance lesson in the world, which will gather more than 10 thousand people. “If they announced a competition for the person who works the most, I would definitely participate,” says Evgeny. - Sometimes I spend about 12 hours in training, but I do not lose optimism and do not fall dead. Probably it's all about incredible love to life".

Surprised brides and grooms. Energetic Eugene dreamed of an equally temperamental wife, and fate brought him to top stylist Salima, an Italian who was invited to work in Moscow. “You have no idea what is sometimes going on with us - just a hurricane! But I like it, - Evgeny admits. - I am very glad that my wife is like this: it is not boring with her. I couldn't live with an amoeba." This couple never ceases to amaze the audience. Eugene made a marriage proposal to his beloved, kneeling in front of the whole football stadium. Marriage registration also turned out to be unusual. “We took a sports convertible and the two of us arrived at the registry office,” says Evgeny. - And near the registry office all these limousines, pigeons, rice flies ... And here we are - absolutely not in the subject of weddings. I was actually wearing sneakers. People looked at us and did not understand: “Are these also getting married?” It looked funny. We signed and went to my parents' dacha. There were brothers, nephews, we had a great time, fried barbecue.”

Surprised myself. “In Amazing People, I am most surprised by the mnemonics that have an amazing memory,” Evgeny admits. - For example, there was a hero who phenomenally counted in his mind. I would press these numbers on the calculator longer than he thinks!

Amazing look of Natalia Ragozina

Surprise athletes. Natalia Ragozina is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for her sporting achievements. Russian Kuvalda, as she was nicknamed for her habit of winning fights by knockout, is a nine-time world boxing champion among professionals, the first woman in Russia to be awarded the title of Honored Master of Kickboxing. Natasha started with jogging, but at the Nizhny Tagil Sports College, a kickboxing coach drew attention to her and offered to try herself in the ring. “I decided that he was joking with me,” Ragozina admits. - But out of curiosity, I went to training. I was paired with some boy who broke my lip a minute later. I immediately ran to the locker room, crying and thinking: “Well, fuck you with your boxing.” And then suddenly anger boiled in me, I wanted to take revenge on the offender. The very next day I came back to the ring and started training. Soon I got even with that boy. And somehow I fell in love with boxing very quickly, I began to succeed. Many guys looked at me like I was crazy: “Here's a fool, where does she climb? Does she want her nose to be broken, her teeth knocked out? After all, in Nizhny Tagil there were no female boxers, except for me. Already at the age of 17, Ragozina became the European champion in kickboxing, and at 18 she won the world championship. Then she was invited to train in Moscow. Victories followed one after another. And not just in boxing. “Once I was asked at the club: “Natasha, perform at the Russian Taekwondo Championship. It’s like kickboxing, but you have to fight mostly with your feet.” “Okay,” I agreed. I didn’t know Taekwondo tactics,” she recalls. - But one boxer taught me to look at the opponent before the start of the fight in such a way that it will not seem small. He said: “Words are carried away by the wind, and a look inspires fear. You go out and look at your opponent as an enemy of the people. If she looks away, it means she got scared and lost the fight before it started. I used this trick. And she beat the champion from St. Petersburg. Natalya won one of her biggest victories over herself when she returned to the sport after the birth of her son. To get in shape, she needed to lose 13 kilograms. “I put on warm ski pants, a down jacket, took a stroller with Vanya and ran around sweating,” she recalls. - Once a police car stopped nearby: “Girl, come on! Where are you in such a hurry? Have you stolen a child? - "No, I'm a European boxing champion, I'm losing weight after giving birth." The law enforcement officer was so stunned that he did not even check the documents. Lost 17 kilos in a month. Those who saw my photos after giving birth simply gasped.”

Surprised the fans. Natalia pleased the fans not only with victories, but also with outfits. “It so happened that it was I who introduced the fashion to enter the ring in skirts and tops instead of unladylike boxer shorts,” she says. - For the first time it happened in 2004 - during one of my first professional fights. I bought satin material in advance and took it to the atelier - I asked to sew a short skirt with fringe (she put on shorts under it) and a topic. In the ring, it made a splash - everyone then made compliments. Since then, I have always sewed ring suits for myself, and I am pleased that many female colleagues supported me. After all, when we watch tennis, where the athletes are in skirts, everyone likes it. Why can't something like this happen in boxing? It's so beautiful!”

Surprised myself. “Many things that the members of Amazing People do seem absolutely incredible,” says Natalia. - But these are not tricks, but real abilities. I return from the shooting satisfied and sometimes even try to repeat something. After filming the first season, I became interested in mental arithmetic and mnemonics. Now I am also engaged in self-development.

original name:

"Amazing People-2"

Player quality: high HD
Transfer production: VGTRK "Russia" and WeiT Media
Producer: Yulia Sumacheva, CEO of White Media
Presenter: Alexander Gurevich
Project jury: expert Vasily Klyucharev, choreographer Yevgeny Papunaishvili, athlete Natalya Ragozina, actress and journalist Olga Shelest
How many episodes in the program "Amazing People": September 3, 2017 started season 2
Genre: transmissions, talent shows,
The final "Amazing People" of the unique talent search show 2 season 9 edition: November 5, 2017 on Russia-1 channel
release year: 2016 - 2017
Members: phenomenal, amazing and extraordinary personalities from around the world who will demonstrate their unique memory and intuition...

Information about the show: - who are these amazing people? The heroes of the new unique project on the TV channel "Russia-1" will amaze your imagination. These people are capable of a lot: their unique talent- beyond our understanding and ordinary human capabilities. Incredible abilities the people who have taken part in this show make the audience understand that there is no limit to the human mind.
Someone has the ability to look at the highway to calculate the speed of all moving cars. Someone can do mental arithmetic at the speed of a computer. Someone memorizes the contents of hundreds of books in one view, collects eyes closed Rubik's cube, breaks glasses with the help of his voice, recognizes the outlines of any states on our planet...
People will demonstrate their phenomenal gift, miracles of intuition and memory in the new show "Amazing People". Thousands of people have been invited to take part in this show. unique abilities. In 2017, the project reached a new level after its resounding success in Russia in 2016. Now not only people from Russia and the CIS countries, but also foreign guests of any age and with different abilities can take part...

48 finalists are waiting for open uncompromising and difficult competitions, because this show is not just another demonstration of their skills - this is the battle of the X-men! This is an amazing competition unique people, but only one will rise to the winner's podium!
The invited spectators in the studio will vote for the best of the best, and famous guests will help them make their choice, with their comments and reviews: Natalya Ragozina - the absolute world champion among boxing professionals; Evgeny Papunaishvili is a wonderful choreographer, famous dancer, and a participant in the project "Dancing with the Stars"; Olga Shelest - journalist, actress, popular TV presenter. In the new second season, the contestants will have to overcome new challenges that will be harder and more interesting. Each new issue will be attended by seven contestants, they can be called magnificent seven. At the end of each episode, viewers vote to whom to give the victory. Star guests have the right to intervene once in the course of the audience voting and give one of the participants a chance to go to the final of the show.
Professor Vasily Klyucharev, an expert from the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, also has his influence on the choice of project finalists. The winners of all previous editions go to the final, where they will have to fight among themselves for the main prize of 1 million rubles and worldwide recognition!

Talent Show "Amazing People" Season 2 Episode 7 aired October 22, 2017

Talent Show "Amazing People" Season 2 Episode 8 aired October 29, 2017