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November 01, 2021 The radio and television speaker Igor Kirillov, face and voice of Soviet TV, for over 60 years on the small screen, died in Moscow.
He was 89 years old.
He was the bust of the main Soviet news station "Vremia", but also the host of news and the New Year's entertainment program, Blue Light. Until 2006, Kirillov conducted the live coverage of the military parade on Red Square on the occasion of the Victory Day over Nazi-Fascism. It was also Kirillov who announced the launch of the first Sputnik and the flight of Jurij Gagarin. At the same time, it was he who announced the confinement of academic Andrei Sakharov and the expulsion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union. On one occasion he also read the speech of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, on the occasion of a New Year's Eve. Of the four speakers, two men and two women, awarded the highest artistic honor, People's Artist, one was Jurij Levitan, Stalin's favorite radio speaker,conductor of all the news of the Second World War, the other was Igor Kirillov.