- Cyril, judging by what we saw on the rink, "Dad and I am a sports family" - is it about you?
- Only partly. (Laughs.) As Sergey Dovlatov wrote, "there must be a small proportion of absurdity." Here I have a share of absurd sports - is obvious. At the age of 45, I first skate, and even on the rink in Dubai - it is necessary to decide on it! Previously, I only once standing at the skates wrote down the eyelid to the plot in the news, and those who have seen it will never forget. And in December, friends said: "Here is a rink, here are the skates. Get up and go. " And I got up and drove. And this young feature is already better than me to ride me, regularly trains from five years. And "Sports Family" - more concerned it, because Nastya and Tennis managed to work out, and volleyball, and generally leads a very active lifestyle.
- But this is all probably not without your initiative?
- Yes, I want her to do sports. Because she has two languages now, a good school, load up to five in the evening, but it is necessary to even be in addition to studying the man was healthy and physically developed. Therefore, Nastya and floats, and runs, and skates rides. In general, it is growing like that dad wants to see her.
- As for the Pope itself, you seem to have always had four main elements - yacht sports, the adventures of "Camel Trophy", football and basketball. Something has changed?
- Football and basketball mainly in news releases and for yourself. "Camel Trophi" went into the fly, but the sediment, as they say, remained. Now with colleagues, we work on the scenario of the adventure program, which will be associated with the automotive theme, I have already bored a little on off-road extreme. And there was a period when he occupied considerable time, the most vivid memories are associated with him. What at least we were worth two weeks of "Trophi Expedition" on SUVs in winter across Russia from Murmansk to Vladivostok! Would you forget this? It's all my native, and remains with me.
- So this passion is not only for work?
- Not. One of the mandatory conditions for the release of the program "In search of adventures", which I was in my time was to participate in all what is happening. When an absolutely non-destroying "kettle", who does not know how to take anything, for two weeks, he studied the skills of extreme driving or immersion with aqualung - it was also interesting to the audience, and the most leading. Time passed - the habit remains. So with Nastya, we recently had an exciting adventure in the desert when we traveled with friends at Jeep Safari. For some time I managed the car on the vegans. It turned out that this is a real science - not to scream! And for the local, it is like on asphalt: they are on a 30-meter barhalan flying at a speed of 90 km / h, and then maneuver on the sandy ridge - an indescribable spectacle. It was necessary to see the eyes of Nastya!
- At the end of last year you were also on the Yacht Championship in America?
- Yes, in Florida, in Fort Lauderdale, the Russian yacht team "Synergy" mastered a new class of boats Melges 32. These are very maneuverable, high-speed structures, and our adapted to them relatively quickly, won several races. Unfortunately, the place for the passenger on the boat is not provided, otherwise I would love to join the team. Behind the race is better to observe from the inside, and not from the accompaniment boat - completely different emotions. Yacht sports - a serious thing: a little distracted - and already God knows what is happening. The guys and masts broke, and the sails were torn, with wind gusts in 32 knots, and in one carriage almost died steering. From the shore, it seems very slow and beautiful.
- How much are you mobile for such adventures and trips? With a five-day working week and daily broadcasts?
- It is good that there is always the opportunity to negotiate. The management of the program "Today" is interested in the presenter of sports news as often as possible at the site of events, and even better when he takes part in them. And the ratings show that the audiences such issues are much more interesting. In the literal air, I tried to master the mountain skiing, and trained with a hockey team, and, of course, car adventures - in general, Extreme is welcome.
- This year you have an anniversary - 20 years, how you work in the television company with a sports observer. What causes you from your professional pride during this time, what did you manage to achieve?
- Twenty - just a digit. It is not so much to participate in the coverage of the six Olympic Games, and this is definitely an event for any journalist, but, the main thing, communication with super-trial people. We will not list everyone - and Alexander Karelin, and Vyacheslav Fetisov, and Jacques Rogge, and Ted Turner. Personality with a capital letter. And he also managed to visit where few people marked from tourists. For example, on the Borneo island, which Russian adventure seekers together with teams from different countries crossed from the east to the west to the rainy season. Connoisseurs of these places Before the start, sympathetically twisted his finger at the temple, they say, the insane joy ... Fortunately, no victims were, no one was left for orangutans. (Laughs.) The year earlier was presented on machines through the jungle of central America by the trail of conquistadors. The organizers called this project "Mundo Maya" - the Maya World, which has become such native for us after famous predictions. Two weeks on SUVs on Guatemala, Mexico, Salvador, Belize ... The last in the history and the largest "Camel Trofi" was carried out no longer on cars, but on the boats in the Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia, between the islands of Tonga and Western Samoa. The meaning of this completely notable game for "charged" ex-paganants, Rangers, sports masters and not entirely prepared journalists - in the coordinates to discover small metal plates carefully hidden at the bottom of the ocean. It turned out something average between races for survival and the "last hero". 26 teams from different countries participated, it was necessary to find the very glands who are more. On one of the islands we had to redeem them from the locals who have agreed to give them over $ 50. I had to pay. (Laughs.) Here is a sport or not sport?
Kirill really wants his daughter to love sports. Yes, and Nastya itself is not against: from early childhood, it is already engaged in various sports sections. Photo: Alexey Yushkov.
"In general, for these 20 years of work it is clear that you adequately continued in journalism the case of your father, a journalist Alexander Kikannadze, and made themselves a name.
- This is you a big advance to me write out. Father never insisted on choosing a profession. Just in his office to deep night, the light was buried and the sound of a typewriter was heard, and then I referred to his books. By that time, when I began to understand something in my life, he had already changed his profession, left the post of head of the international department in Soviet Sports with millions of circulations and began to engage in literature. Sharp step. I could not so. And when he entered his profession himself, compared his impressions of what he saw on the Olympics with those that the Father described the Father in his books "Italian Diary", "Sun Pyramid", "Wind from Olympus." Everything is very similar. Father for me is an example of how to live life, sorry for a high polliness.
- That is, there was no coal of sports or journalism in your family?
- No, but all major competitions, starting with the Olympic Games and World Hockey Championships or Football, we watched on TV together. And I, a 12-year-old boy, watched what is happening on TV, opening the mouth. And the father who visited this in many sports events, parallel recalled some entertaining stories about players or coaches with which he met in different years. Tames came to visit, Starostin, real centers of sports. And I just sat at the table and received a buzz from their endless baek.
- Initially, you were going to do not at all sports journalism, but serious international?
- In the fact that sports journalism is a very serious business, made sure that I took out accreditation at the Olympics in Nagano. I first took an interview with the Ilya Kulik, barely left the ice of the newly left Olympic champion, which could not be categorically - there was not enough accreditation. Japanese securities did not understand me. And accreditation at the Olympics is like a passport. As a result, for three days, until our Olympic Committee returned to my crust, I went on accreditation - bright memory - Andrei Smash, who flown to Moscow. The differences between me and bearded irrigating the alert Japanese did not find. And if seriously, sports journalism is, of course, journalism of the fact: surnames, goals, glasses, seconds - they can not be mistaken. The question is how to talk about sports.
- Remember your first work experience at the lighting of the Olympic Games, which you invited you to work your brother, Vasily Kikannadze?
- Yes, a large team of sports editorial board barely emerged to the light of Russian television flew to the games in Barcelona, the Moscow Studio was empty. It was necessary to accept someone from Spain, prepare the plots in the information Olympic blocks. And my task was first simply, what is called, "bring shells", that is, make a march of teletype to the editor. Then he began to write texts, voice; In general, leaned. They worked as well, but relaxed a little earlier time. In the climax of closing games, when Montserrat Caballe was singing, the connection with Barcelona was safely interrupted, it was the only case for the three Olympic weeks. And the table in the editorial office was already covered by the time. And Alexey Ivanovich Burkov, my godfather in the profession, courageously went to the commentation cabin. Without a single piece of script, the script worked one and a half hours on the air, so that no one had a doubt - Burkov in Barcelona and knows about this ceremony! That was a high class!
- Now you watch your brother for the work of each other? Maybe there is a professional rivalry?
- Behind the creativity of Brother I am watching with great interest. Now he has a grandiose-based work: create a high-quality television product from the main event, Sochi Olympiad. It means to be involved in the process 24 hours a day seven days a week. But he will cope, I know my brother. And Vasily, it seems to me, carefully monitors what happens to me. He was the first to call after a film was released on a unique promotion in the North Pole. On the proposal to play football on the most painter of the Earth, journalists, astronauts, artists responded with readiness. Through Hatanga, through the island of the middle flow to the destination. Excellent April weather, minus 20, cleared Polyana, put a tent with a samovar, installed the gate. Started to play. And in the middle of the second half, because of the mainstream, the procession appears: the dog's harness, and behind it is an absolutely frozen person. It turned out that the Swiss skier, by the way, was very famous, for five years she was preparing for the conquest of the North Pole. Twice it was missed. For the third time I decided to go from Canada to Russia. And here the GPS it turned out that behind the next torosa is the purpose of his life, the dream of a dream. He turns there and sees how a man of 20 Russians chase the ball. Dogs, for the first time in many days, learning human warmth, spend, refuse to go further. And the poor swiss on frostbitten cheeks runs a tear. "Guys," wondered - what are you doing here? There are no other places for football on the planet? " It was warmed and then went. This will not come up with. From such stories and consists of a kayf of journalistic work. What is me for? Ah, yes, with Vasily we have no rivalry. (Laughs.)
Kirill adores extreme. Stand up at 45 years to skates: Is it not an adventure? Photo: Alexey Yushkov.
- You were born in Moscow, but your roots - in Georgia. How felt in your family, were any traditions transmitted, did it affect the upbringing?
- In childhood, he came to Georgia often. In the alpine village of Haragaululi, in Imereti. And you know, with me there was amazing things. Each time I had the effect of Deja Vyu. I opened up with local boys new places, went a lot, traveled. But it always seemed to me that I had already seen it somewhere at the subconscious level. And now suddenly I remembered how everything was followed by the game of the USSR-Belgium at the 1982 World Cup in the only rowful black and white TV, giving instructions on the roof with an antenna in the hands of the owner of the house. I do not speak Georgian, although when I came to Georgia, I started to understand something and could even communicate a little. Someday I will do there and Nastya, despite the fact that Uncle Vazhiko on me in the offense - I have not communicated for a long time.
- And somehow talking about Georgia, you mentioned that you have had a love for good Georgian wines since then ...
- Yes. Once, he himself took part in the process of preparation, confidently heated with barefoot legs with a grape vine, to the edges of the filling wooden barrel. It was homemade rustic wine. All three words with a capital letter! I hope the quality of that product that after a while will return to Russia, will not be worse. After all, this is also a symbol of the early end of the turbidity in the relationship between Georgia and Russia.
- Most recently, in December, you have noted another important date, already personal - 45 years old. Have some kind of celebration about this?
- Two events were noted at once - both birthday, and the success of Russian yachtsmen on races in the United States. Right on the boat, in the open ocean. So it turns out that the last years of ten birthdays either do not celebrate at all, or somehow very exotic - for example, on the plane of the flight Vladivostok-Moscow or in the racing car. But every time you remember about my "birthday" it is those people who I would like to remember it. Therefore, I am a happy man. And what is - 45?
- Yes, and do not look at all.
- This is an internal motor running. As soon as life ceases to be interesting as soon as you immerse yourself in Routine - all. Now I spend more time in Moscow, but barely appears the opportunity to go to an interesting business trip, I subscribe to this without thinking. Still easy to rise. And I really like this life.
- Then what is the rest for you and does he exist?
- Yes. Take with me Anastasia Kirillovna and wait a week somewhere to the sea. We have FIFTI FIFTI. Half of time in the sun buse upwards, half - active. I have enough weeks, the maximum of two. If more - I start bored without work.
- Nastya now is the main person in your life? How much time do you dedicate daughter's upbringing?
- So it happened that yes, now it is the main person in my life. And I want to spend much more with her than it turns out. As much as possible. 9-10 years - age defining. In addition, she is a very reasonable young lady, and I am very interested in it. Sometimes it seems that she brings me up.
- Recently, you have another occupation in life, you teach journalism at the Institute of Television. How do you like?
- Striving by the language of my students - while cool. (Laughs.) I have two groups on
30 people guys freshmen, 17-18 years old. I do not consider myself a teacher, I am a journalist, and I do not have a lecture, this is a workshop. And it seems to me, they understand me. Learning to look at the world widely open eyes. Curiosity is the main quality of the journalist.
- You say that the temperament you have left Georgian, hot-tempered, but at your work in the frame you will not say this. I would say, you retain philosophical calm, even telling about gambling sports events.
- In order to tell it interesting, you don't need to "trouble be a face", in order for you to listen, you do not need to yell. If you are interested, what you tell you about, you will listen and perceive the way you are.