"Morning Mail", "Morning Star", "Therent of the Republic" and a lot more. According to the biography of people such as Yuri Nikolaev, you can write an important part of the history of our television.
- Yuri Aleksandrovich, what moods and thoughts visit you on the eve of the seventieth anniversary?
- Thoughts pianic, brains boil, because I will spend my birthday on stage. I want it to be not just a concert, I want to be friends on it. Therefore, I am so journey now: I remember one thing, then another and so on. That is, I can not say that I am in harmony and tranquility on the eve of the anniversary. And besides, to be honest, I did not expect that there would be such increased attention to my person.
- It seems to me that it was always so ...
"Yes, but that all the mass media, the press call every day several times ... My phone breaks out, and inconveniently refuse. I believe that there is already enough interview, but calls continue. They offered me a television broadcast on December 16, everyone was so invented. Of course, I answered, they say, thank you and the canal I respect, but I still have the most faithful day ahead. I mean a concert in Crocus City Hall, all this action. I hope they are not offended.
Future TV host with Mom Valentina Ignatovna
Photo: Personal archive Yury Niolaeva
- What are you planning to surprise the audience at the festive concert?
- Almost all of our stars will participate in this program: Grigory Leps, Ani Lorak, Vaenga, Lev Leshchenko, Leonid Agutin and Angelica Varum, Zara, Igor Nikolaev - I am afraid to forget someone now. That is, those people who have a direct attitude, my friends. And the meeting itself, I will say that I will say from the stage, "the reason to thank those with whom I worked twenty, thirty and forty years on the television screen, and those who brought to the stage when they were babies. And someone will come with their kids. In my opinion, they even want to sing with their children. And most importantly, I will try almost nothing from the scene. Because if at least with one of my friends, we will begin to remember something and thank each other, it will turn into a talk show. I also suspect that some musical surprises are preparing for me, which I do not know about and I don't want to know yet.
- And you yourself are not going to sing?
"There is a good song that Igor Nikolayev recorded on the poems of his father, Yuri Nikolaev. And it is called "Yury Island". It sounds ridiculous, but this is true. Igor's father was called Yuri, he was a poet, published Tomik Pychov. And in the Sakhalin area there is a small island called Yuri. And Yuri Nikolayev sings this song too. Maybe we will leave her to the final
- Now everyone is singing with pleasure, you did not think to move in this direction too?
- I am afraid that it will be similar to some amazing. I recorded for all the time of work somewhere seven songs. One composition - "Piastra" - still remember. Although this song was recorded 25 years ago and sounded one, maximum twice in the "Morning Mail". I am pleased. Maybe I will write later something, but there is no special desire - everyone should do their own business. I was lucky in life: I am doing the job that I love, and it seems to me, I found a common language with the spectator, which is the most important for the television host. I am rarely called me by name-patronymic. Basic Yura. And it absolutely does not harm me. The kids who remember are called Uncle Yura. For example, Marat Safin, my favorite, has nothing to do with television, but I know it from six years old. He became a superport, but he continues to call me uncle Yura. And I called him a fray, even when he became already a senator, and a deputy. Why I remembered about him, I do not know, but he is sympatheted. (Smiles.)
In 1987, the leading "morning mail" Yury Nikolaev and the leading Swedish program "Staircase Jacob" Jacob Dalin removed a joint television show, which became a real breakthrough on the Soviet music TV
Photo: Personal archive Yury Niolas
- There were thousands of bright gifts in your life. Which ones have become the most unexpected for you?
- I had a lot of unexpected and very expensive gifts. For the price, I think it is not so expensive, but the gifts were really royal. In one of the days of birth, Nikita Mikhalkov presented me on stage a real admiral eppul a thousand eight hundred of some year, he still stored. One my birthday I met in Siberia, in a very good company, and local chefs made my microphone figurine from chocolate. And on my forty-title Alla Pugacheva launched his wonderful project "Christmas meetings" and invited me to behave. It was December 16; I went to Alla, said that I ordered a table on my anniversary, and asked me to let me go early, as I want to check how there and that with him. And now the action is already going by the end, Alla declares everyone who participated, and says: they say, you do not see Yuri Nikolaev here, because he has a birthday today and he ran to the restaurant to check the tables. Then added: "Let's congratulate him on your birthday!". And the whole "Olympic" is fifteen-twenty thousand people - congratulated me happy birthday. The show filmed the canal, and I thought it would certainly cut down. It turns out that no one cut out anything, everything remained - she went on the air for another fifteen million spectators.
And then for another six months congratulated on your birthday. Here is such a royal gift. In general, I almost do not celebrate birthdays. Only round dates, which end with five or no zero.
- Now you have all the thoughts are engaged in work and the upcoming celebration, but still, if your free time appears, what do you prefer to occupy?
- Let it sound highly, but I can not without sports. As I call myself, I am a professional kettle. (Smiles.) And in tennis, and in the skiing, which I adore. Of course, now I ride not as riding 25 years ago, and yet it is part of my life. Billiards I like. I also play in Russian billiards, and in English is not so common in Russia, but very interesting.
- Where did you get the hobby of the billiards?
- The fact is that I grew up in the Military Family. Father was a colonel, and most officers at that time went to rural clubs and played at billiards. Dad took me with me, so I picked up soon enough. But this is a non-permanent passion. When I entered the institute at sixteen years old, billiards disappeared from my life, then again appeared, then a billiard club was opened, where, by the way, he hosts the chief editor of MK Pavel Gusev. We are very good friends, I adore him and love to play with him on billiards; Just with him we play snooker, English billiards. And when the world championships go, we all on the phone: are you looking? And for whom you are sick?
- Do not love to lose?
- I always say with whom I play. So we started talking about Marat Safina. It's funny - to get to play with Marat and think about winning. I just get pleasure looking at him, his blows. We took the racket with him, but it seems to me that he can sit with me to play. (Laughs.) So in each sport, I understand who I can go to win, and with whom it is useless - you just need to relax and have fun. But, frankly, I do not like to lose. Not with anything.
1996. Yuri Nikolaev and Leonid Yakubovich not only successful TV presenters, but also passionate amateur aviation fans
Photo: Personal archive Yury Niolas
- I heard that at one time you had a rather unexpected passion: you could fly on the plane yourself! ..
- Yes, I could pilot a small plane, but it was a long time ago. I stopped doing it, because this sport requires constant classes. After I got a license, I could not come in six months, show it and fly. I was satisfied with the table again, asked the whole theory: the speed of takeoff, landing, when to produce a flap, etc. Then it was necessary to make a control square with an instructor, and only then decide, I have the right to pilot or not. And with my torn rhythm of work, every time I had to start almost first. As a result, refused.
- You can often find for the book?
- For me to take a book that still smells, and flipping the pages is a special pleasure. I remember for the first time tasted pleasure from reading at fourteen years. I even read one novel in English. As I remember, it was a Sallinger "Above the Absure in rye". I read it, probably half a year, but caught. (Smiles.) To this read in Russian. It is said that a person in life you need only three books, but for this you need to read thirty thousand. And I have three author, which I love and can reread how much time. There's not a story there. These are really brilliant people: Bunin, Chekhov and Gogol. Of course, I know foreign authors.
- Apparently, do you have a lot of books at home? ..
- Well, compared to those libraries that I have seen, not a lot. Completely made the office at the cottage and in the apartment. I did not count how many volumes, I don't even know the off town. At one time, the book for me was the most expensive gift, because there was one Chisinau Publishing. So everyone who traveled to Chisinau, took books there and brought me. They were on bad paper, in a tough cover. Well, now I bribe something. I liked the Italian writer Benavista, I bought the book of unpublished stories Scott Fitzgerald. As for Russian literature, I think that I have everything you need for my taste. Well, if I see a very beautiful edition, I do not leave.
In the new century, one of the most striking projects Yuri Nikolaev was the Program "Therent of the Republic". In the photo Yuri with Lyudmila Gurchenko and co-supporting programs Dmitry Shepelev
Lilia Charlovskaya
- Are you a country resident or prefer megapolis with his rhythm?
- Lately we live in Moscow. The family grow up - nephews, grandchildren; I gave it all. Well, we are one blood, one family. They now rebuild the cottage to themselves, but our separate compartment does not touch. We can always come there, but officially this is the house of my niece. Somewhere in the 86th year we bought this house on Istra. For the current standards, we, of course, were redone it. I always liked the architecture, design, I even discharged design magazines, still studying at school. Yes, I like beautiful, interesting homes, but I bought a plot only because of the species - he is flat. When I was shown, I immediately asked: how much? And we began to bargain. This site was located on the former landlocks, at the highest point. And here I am standing on the site - and before me are not bent backs of the neighbors who pick up in beds, but a neweerusalem temple. Now he was renovated, there is very beautiful.
- Maintaining children's musical gears, can be said, your horse. And you never offered to take part in the project "Voice. Children"?
- No, not offered. I think, rather, would be such a wedding general in this program. There is such a concept - the inertia of the audience perception. Why after me - and this is not a barraffle - "Morning Mail" many led, but the audience did not accept them? Not because I am so brilliant, but because the viewer over decades is used to me, to my manner of the conversation, and it was very difficult to restructure. I tactically made the right step: I left the "Morning Mail", did not appear there for some time, there was an intrigue, and then I appeared in a completely new image.
- By the way, the children who took part in the "morning star" and became in the end of popular artists, somehow thank you, support contact with you?
- Sure. I am pleased that on December 16, some have canceled their very profitable tour. In particular, Sergei Lazarev, for example, did not go to the tour to congratulate me with the anniversary. Yes, I support relationships and with Pelagey, and glow, and Ani Lorak. And I still flatter, and I do not hide it that the fate of all of my coordinents is amazing: someone has a personal life, someone has a career. They all remember this and thank.
90s. Yuri Nikolaev and Andrei Makarevich playing a billiard in the club where celebrities were going
Photo: Personal archive Yury Niolas
- In your life it all happened not only in terms of work. Together with his wife you have already been 43 years old. Admit how do you manage it?
- Everyone wants to know, and everyone ask this question, but there is no algorithm for family happiness. To say that we never quarreled, it is not true. If there was not a single quarrel in the family for so many years, it means that the family is not built on love, but on something else. And indeed, in our life there was a lot of things, no need to idealize. This is a trite, but I still egoist and could not live so much with a person who I do not like. If there are feelings, then there is an understanding. If there is an understanding - it means there is a forgiveness. And then, as I kidding, a huge number of tour is also a plus for family life. We didn't hold together all the time, sometimes it was not for a half months, or I flew, changed out, flew.
- did not occur to take a spouse with me on tour?
"When we painted, she still studied at the institute and with money, as you understand, we had no matter. I went to earn. Then she graduated with honors from the institute, worked with eight in the morning to five in the evening in the State Labor RSFSR. She had a red diploma, she was considered a good specialist, but her salary, unlike colleagues, did not increase, because she is Wife Yuri Nikolaev, and he, they say, earns a lot. Yes, in the eighties, I have already earn enough. Not so much, maybe, like a superstar Yuri Antonov and Alla Pugacheva, but among the leaders, I think, was in the top. They gave my name on the bills, because they believed that it attracted the audience, well, and from under the floors paid clearance quite good money at that time. Do not compare with the current fees.
Yuri and Eleonora met when they were still teenagers. They became her husband and wife in 1975
Photo: Personal archive Yury Niolas
- Now you have enough for life?
- I speak honestly, today's income level suits me. Yes, it is not something super, but the money that I get is enough for us to live in your pleasure. Of course, we save on something, but so far, pah-pah, not criminal. Then, I understand that I may never have a yacht, at home abroad, but I do not need it.
- Do you have weaknesses to which you can make a large amount of money?
- Probably, these are cars. I myself drive. For more than four years, I do not hold the car - I change it to another model. I know one person who is also persecuted by cars, this is a Lena Yarmolnik. If we talk about clothes, then the desire to buy branded costumes, jeans, shoes, which I had twenty years ago, no longer. Now I look at the quality of things as far as it comes to my image and I do not look at the brand. At one time, the glory of Zaitsev, and Valentin Yudashkin, was sewn and fame, because it was also necessary to appear on the screen. Well, it is clear that all men passed through the clock, cars ...
- And weapons? ..
- Well, yes, now there was a hunting exhibition, I was offered to buy interesting options, but I understood that it would be superfluous. Because the number of cutting trunks of the house must be defined, and if more, then you need to make up as a collection. And this is an excess headache. Although, of course, tempting when you take a new trunk, still smelling, there the mass of all sorts of lotion is the thermal imager, and so on, and you still persuade you to buy ... I used to collect cold weapons, but it was not a purchase collection, but only gifts. Asian knives and daggers with a history, two-two.
- Despite the fact that you have been with my wife already 43 years old, romance in relations remained?
- There are already traditional moments in our life, such as pillow gifts, as in childhood. For a birthday, I always do it for the new year. Exactly at twelve o'clock in the night's birthday, the spouse is a call to the door - and she gets a bouquet of beautiful colors. A special person brings, even if I do not have a home. You need to know my spouse, she has amazing quality: she knows how to rejoice in ordinary things. Roughly speaking, someone can deliver it. At the same time, if she lost this hairpin, for her it is already a tragedy. I tell her: "I will buy you so much so much!" But still worries. At the same time, it is completely calm to all Tsatskov, not because we cannot buy them, but because she is just indifferent to them.
Already 43 years old spouses are inseparable
Gennady Avramenko
- You often have friends at home, do you like noisy companies?
- I love noisy companies, but already in, so let's say, limited quantities. Compared to other hospitabases, we collect not often. We have friends who invite for lunch, for example. Previously, when we lived far and modestly, I came to my friends and we played the preference for money, but purely symbolic. The spouse baked some cookies, there was always something tasty. But it was a long time ago.
- Yuri Aleksandrovich, you seem like a person who has everything and without any problems. Do you have disadvantages from which I would like to get rid of?
- A huge number of flaws from which I would like to get rid of, but maybe it will not work. Number one is self-confidence, such self-destruction. Although I say: Stop, Yura! You have so much about life, you have such a gift - and you are still unhappy with something else!
- Well, if we talk about the merits ...
- I think the most important quality that gave me a ticket to life is ambition. Vanity is impossible to be called, rather, the effort to bring everything to ideality. My colleague Maxim Galkin, which I very much respect, said "Perfectionist". I started analyzing and really understood: probably, this character trait gave me a lot so that today you come to talk to me.
- When you bloom the candles at the festive jubilee cake, what kind of desire is coming?
- What desire will come true if I tell about it now? (Laughs.) As the GaFF joked, a person is very witty, to contact the doctors at our age already indecent. Of course, I wish you health and your loved ones. This is the most important thing today ...