There were few entertainment programs on Soviet television. Therefore, when “Blue Light” first appeared on the New Year’s broadcast on December 31, 1963, it instantly became super popular. Let's remember those who entertained the viewer in different decades, and the funny things that happened on the set. Joseph Kobzon “announced” the Cuban missile crisis Joseph Kobzon, who later became legendary, first appeared before television viewers in Ogonyok.

At the end of 2023, “Interlocutor” puzzled famous Russians with the main question of the coming 2024. Sergei Stepashin, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation: - Putin. This is obvious to me. Boris NADEZHDIN, nominated as a candidate for President of the Russian Federation by the Civil Initiative party: – After Putin there will be Nadezhdin. Maybe not right away, but it will happen! Seriously: Putin must go. He made a fatal mistake by starting the SVO.

Whoever reveals the secret of why there is never enough money deserves a Nobel Prize. In our country, the best candidate is Viktor Gerashchenko: he has an excellent economic education, he was four times chairman of the country’s main bank, and has been in the financial profession all his life.

An FSB general plus a State Duma deputy equals an article about the struggle between Russians and reptilians. No, this is not science fiction, this is material for the scientific journal “Legal Science: History and Modernity”.

For several decades now, the artist Andrei Myagkov can be considered one of the New Year's attributes: on holidays they always show “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” Every year on December 31, his hero Zhenya Lukashin and his friends go to the bathhouse. The audience knows the film by heart, but they still watch and care about the characters. Although Myagkov himself regarded Lukashin’s popularity with some annoyance.

Photo: AGN “Moscow” She's back. Or rather, she was returned: the honored coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova, after the scandalous “excommunication” from her broadcasts by Channel One, is back in business - she skillfully commented on the side of the Russian championship that ended last Sunday, for which she flew to Chelyabinsk.

The Avtotor car plant in Kaliningrad has been producing BMW, KIA and Hyundai cars for a very long time, right until 2022. Then, when the assembly line stopped after the February events of 2022, the plant switched to Chinese crafts. A lot of bad things can be said about them. Thus, the famous auto expert Sergei Aslanyan* generally considers them “life-size models” that are impossible to drive. But nevertheless, Chinese manufacturers have mastered the science of design quite well.

Walter Elias Disney was always afraid of mice. And in his uncle’s garage, which served as his first studio, they were swarming with them. The artist decided that he could overcome his fear by taming a mouse - if not in life, then at least on the screen. Thus was born Mickey Mouse, an icon of American mass culture. 1. American Dream Walt Disney also loved to draw since childhood.

At the Zakharov publishing house, where the search took place on December 19, they do not open the door and do not answer phone calls. The Interlocutor correspondent was convinced of this. The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that the search was related to the criminal case against Boris Akunin*. The publishing house discovered the writer in the late 1990s and has been publishing his books ever since.

The cult Soviet and Russian photographer Valery Plotnikov continues to tell Sobesednik+ readers about the subjects of his photographs. “Everything in a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul, and thoughts,” this phrase is pronounced by Doctor Astrov, one of the heroes of Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya.” This photo shows People’s Artist of the USSR Vyacheslav Tikhonov in exactly this role,” says the photographer.

The Soviet gymnast is going to her ninth Olympics. At 49 years old! The age of artistic gymnasts is short-lived: they retire after twenty. You only have to look at the petite teenage girls to understand how the sport has become younger. But among all this plastic brethren there is one and only participant in eight Olympics in the history of artistic gymnastics. The name of Oksana Chusovitina adorns the Guinness Book of Records.

Gina Lollobrigida's life included film moguls, princes and the Mikhalkov brothers. A year ago, the legendary Italian actress, sex symbol of post-war cinema and the golden age of Hollywood, Gina Lollobrigida, passed away. “The most beautiful woman in the world”, Esmeralda, Queen of Sheba – sensual images that have become the standard of female beauty. Her on-screen partners include Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster.

The patriarch of world diplomacy passed away at the age of 101. Until his last days, he remained not only active, but also one of the most influential politicians on the planet. How will our compatriots who knew him remember him? “Take him for a ride, show him Red Square” “I was elected to the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1964 and made a member of the presidium of the Siberian Branch,” recalls academician Abel Aganbegyan.

The Olympic champion in ice dancing took to the ice for the first time after undergoing partial amputation of both arms and legs and prosthetics of the lower extremities. Skating! And together with his former partner Tatyana Navka, he skated an excerpt from the legendary free program “Carmen”, with which they took gold in Turin 2006. It happened in Moscow at a show in honor of the 50th anniversary of ice producer Ilya Averbukh.

This shot was taken on December 31, 1964 by photographer Valentin Cheredintsev, who photographed Soviet cosmonauts a lot - both at work and at home. He was also allowed into the house of the Gagarin family. Yuri Alekseevich celebrated the New Year 1965 with his family and friends in his three-room apartment in Shchelkovo-3 (Chkalovsky) near Moscow. The Gagarins had not yet moved to Star City.