“Today, saying goodbye to Igor Kirillov, many call him a man-era, and this will be an exact definition,” Zaslavsky said.
He stressed that Kirillov was the "voice of the country", the voice that spoke about the main events.
“Moreover, it was official news, but communicated with a human voice, that is, he humanized that official Soviet life, which was becoming a part of our life.
It is he who sounds in the songs of Depeche Mode, some other famous rock bands, which thus perceived Kirillov's voice - as the sound of the Soviet Union, as the sound of our country.
He has a very beautiful voice ... Kirillov was an ironic man capable of self-irony ... Victory parades and minutes of silence were entrusted to his sincere and beautiful voice, "added the interlocutor of RT.
According to him, for decades it was Kirillov's voice that "caused us sincere tears, empathy and, conversely, a sense of pride."
The death of the Soviet announcer Igor Kirillov became known on October 30.
Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Russia Vladimir Solovyov, in an interview with RT, called Kirillov "a completely unique person with a unique voice that will surely remain in our hearts."