“Anatoly Grigorievich is one of the brightest people in Russian television, a man of the era, who created a lot of programs: wonderful, youthful ... A man of amazing creative imagination.

I think that Anatoly Grigorievich Lysenko has done a lot in modern Russian television.

It’s silly, probably, to say that the most-most-most, but one of the most-most-most-this is absolutely certain.

This is the formation of Russian television, independent, free early 1990s - without Lysenko it would have been unthinkable, "Bystritsky stressed.

The death of Anatoly Lysenko, a television journalist and general director of the Public Television of Russia (OTR), became known on June 20. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the family and friends of Lysenko.