Andrei Illesch died

It became known that on the morning of November 19, after a long illness, the legendary journalist Andrei Illesh died.

Andrei Vladimirovich Illesh was born in Moscow in 1949. He is a hereditary journalist. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University worked as a correspondent in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Soviet Russia. However, the history of another publication is inextricably linked with his name - Izvestia newspaper, where he came in 1984, and in 1986 he became the editor of the newspaper information department. He wrote the everyday, it would seem, reports about rescuers, firefighters and police officers, but they instantly became what they would call "bestsellers" today. It was a reference reporter, because he was always, as one of his colleagues noted, next to his heroes - he saved, stew, sat in ambush. In 1986, Andrei Illesch became the first to report from the scene of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. He later wrote a book about this. And not only about that.

The circle of his professional knowledge and interests was unusually wide. During his life, he wrote hundreds of articles, a book about the catastrophe of the Korean Boeing - long before such frankness was resolved by perestroika - about the Mafia, who arise in Russia, “Red Cross Fathers”. Not so long ago, his last book was published - "A Lone Catcher against the backdrop of fast water." In the last months of his life, Andrei Illesh collaborated with the newspaper Moscow News. In his last columns - many memories, a lot of life, a lot of well -aimed observations.

Andrei Illesh was a laureate of the USSR journalists and various international awards, the 2010 Government Prize, as an editor of the special issue of Izvestia-Pobed.

The writer, publicist Denis Dragunsk, recalls his friend and colleague in an interview with Radio:

- I was terribly amazed when I found out about Andrei's death today. I have known this person for more than 40 years. And he was always the most living, the most powerful, smart, hardworking, cheerful, cheerful and intelligent person. His death is a terrible loss for our journalism. He was a really great journalist. He made such materials that, unfortunately, in the era of the Internet and universal hack, no one can do and does not want to do. I will never forget his work in Chernobyl, as well as the completely amazing series of his reports about the South Korean Boeing - it was just a whole book, which, in fact, has developed from this material.

He was a master of sensations, a master of reports - and did all this himself, traveled all over the country, talked with people of all ranks and titles, all provisions, and generations.

I perfectly remember their house - I was friends with him and his wife Lena Illes. I remember how Andryusha brought some exotic goodies from some distant business trips-a bear cub, a boar-and treated us. He had a wonderful open house. It is terrible that he died, and I will never forget him. Dear Andryusha, you are always with me, always in my heart!