What? Where? When? is an intellectual game show well known in Russian-language media and other CIS states since mid-1970s. Today it is produced for television more
What? Where? When? is an intellectual game show well known in Russian-language media and other CIS states since mid-1970s. Today it is produced for television by TV Igra on the Russian Channel One and also exists as a competitive game played in clubs organized by the World Association of Clubs. Over 17 000 teams worldwide play sport version of game, based on the TV show. close
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme more
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001. close
Forty-three videos, year after year, describe events, people and phenomena that shaped our way of life in the most mature and peaceful period of the history more
Forty-three videos, year after year, describe events, people and phenomena that shaped our way of life in the most mature and peaceful period of the history of the USSR and Russia. What we cannot imagine without is even more difficult to understand.
In each series - a rare, often unique newsreel, declassified details of famous political events, excerpts from the best films and cartoons, fashion details, anecdotes, sayings and comments of "experts" - Anatoly Strelyan, Egor Gaidar, Sergey Karaganov, Renata Litvinova and Tatiana Drubich. close
Fyodor Stukov,
Uliya Lyovkina,
Filipp Korshunov,
Roman Fokin
This story began back in 1986. Perestroika was already underway, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. It was a time when there was no Internet, more
This story began back in 1986. Perestroika was already underway, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. It was a time when there was no Internet, hypermarkets and even mobile phones, but they drank water from the tap, there were no traffic jams in Moscow, and the keys to the apartment were quietly left under the rug. close