{"id":5107,"date":"2021-11-06T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/the-soviet-peoples-shrink-former-news-anchor-and-television-announcer-igor-kirillov-is-dead-he-was-a-media-icon-to-russians-for-decades.html"},"modified":"2021-11-06T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:23:20","slug":"the-soviet-peoples-shrink-former-news-anchor-and-television-announcer-igor-kirillov-is-dead-he-was-a-media-icon-to-russians-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/the-soviet-peoples-shrink-former-news-anchor-and-television-announcer-igor-kirillov-is-dead-he-was-a-media-icon-to-russians-for-decades.html","title":{"rendered":"The Soviet people\u2019s shrink Former news anchor and television announcer Igor Kirillov is dead. He was a media icon to Russians for decades."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_full__1TEjx EmbedBlock-module_desktop__SF5a_ EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\">Igor Kirillov in 2006Dmitry Astakhov \/ TASS<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_lead__35nXx  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Legendary Soviet news anchor Igor Kirillov died in Moscow on October 30. He was 89 years old. For more than two decades, Kirillov hosted Vremya \u2014 a nightly news program viewed religiously throughout the entire USSR \u2014 and in doing so became a Soviet institution. Like hundreds of millions of others, journalist Ekaterina Barabash experienced Kirillov live and on the air. At Meduza\u2019s request, she reflects on the man and his broadcasts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">\u201cThis is Moscow speaking.\u201d How many times did we hear those words? Thousands? Millions? Too many to count. Igor Leonidovich Kirillov manifested in our homes at nine o\u2019clock every night, and with his unmistakable voice, brought us to terms with stark Soviet life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Vremya broadcasts started with a splash: composer Georgy Sviridov\u2019s grandiose orchestral piece \u201cTime, Forward!\u201d Then, half an hour later, they floated away to the sweetly sung melody of Marie Laforet\u2019s \u201cManchester et Liverpool,\u201d which introduced the weather forecast. In between was Kirillov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Back then, the Soviet Central Television news anchors were our liaisons to the wider world. And while we knew that the only true words spoken during Vremya were a few bits from the weather forecast and the \u201cThis is Moscow speaking\u201d opener, it was ill-advised ever to skip it. Why? First, if you were capable of reading between the lines, you could glean something useful. And second, there was Igor Kirillov.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"\/impro\/bjTPL5f7lttDIqQFTHuMkFjcSEDyjoIKkpqPy2oP9DE\/fill\/325\/0\/ce\/1\/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWR1\/emEuaW8vaW1hZ2Uv\/YXR0YWNobWVudHMv\/aW1hZ2VzLzAwNy8y\/MDgvNTExL29yaWdp\/bmFsLzNmelRUUE84\/S0VON0FyWnU2czVk\/X0EuanBn.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Igor Kirillov and Nonna Bodrova, Vremya\u2019s anchors, in 1977\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/impro\/bjTPL5f7lttDIqQFTHuMkFjcSEDyjoIKkpqPy2oP9DE\/fill\/325\/0\/ce\/1\/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWR1\/emEuaW8vaW1hZ2Uv\/YXR0YWNobWVudHMv\/aW1hZ2VzLzAwNy8y\/MDgvNTExL29yaWdp\/bmFsLzNmelRUUE84\/S0VON0FyWnU2czVk\/X0EuanBn.jpg\" alt=\"Igor Kirillov and Nonna Bodrova, Vremya\u2019s anchors, in 1977\"><\/noscript>Igor Kirillov and Nonna Bodrova, Vremya\u2019s anchors, in 1977N. Ageev, A. Ageev \/ TASS<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Kirillov dreamed of being a filmmaker. After graduating from the Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre Institute, he spent two years acting at the Drama and Comedy Theater (which later became the illustrious Taganka Theatre). Following that stint, he brought fresh ideas to the world of television. Those ideas went unwanted. But Kirillov himself was put to use, first as an assistant director, and soon thereafter as a news anchor. At the time, the news anchor corps was entirely female, but it was decided that Kirillov would dismantle the matriarchy, so to speak. In the end, he dismantled it in such a way that the words \u201cnews anchor\u201d and \u201cKirillov\u201d became synonyms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Yuri Levitan, a then-living radio broadcast legend, set the bar for Kirillov, and he set it high. In the popular subconsciousness, Levitan\u2019s voice was forever associated with World War II. If Levitan was the voice of the war, Kirillov would become the voice of peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Given Levitan\u2019s status as an icon and a broadcasting paragon, it\u2019s unsurprising that a young Kirillov began his career as a Levitan-emulator. In time though, Kirillov developed his own distinctive style. Where Levitan\u2019s voice was quintessentially official, Kirillov managed to craft a confiding, compassionate tone \u2014 accompanied, of course, by the requisite Soviet formality and dispassion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Vremya became something akin to a Kirillov-hosted benefit concert, set with a mission to instill popular confidence in the party line. You might say he was our shared on-call shrink. He could have said anything, and it would have been impossible not to have believed him. He seemed incapable of deceit \u2014 despite the fact that he was (for the most part) reading off out-and-out lies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny EmbedBlock-module_mobileFullwidth__QFFLH EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZxFfwb6Tbs8?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showinfo=0&amp;color=white\"  frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute\"><\/iframe>\u201cThe Envy of Gods\u201d (2000)Igor Kirillov<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Mr. Kirillov likely understood it all, but for us he was Gorky\u2019s Luka from the play The Lower Depths. Only where Luka transfixed a single character (the Actor) with the promise of \u0430 small corner of paradise, Kirillov managed to transfix a 250-million-person nation. He was a world-class professional: he knew the extent of his charms and, without fail, used them to soften the lies subtly that he was made to utter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">To be a news presenter on Soviet television was to be like a soldier: the slightest hint of any private sentiment was off-limits. For more than thirty years, Kirillov filled the airwaves with the stuff he had to \u2014 stuff that had to be checked, had to be double-checked, and had to be stamped with approval by whomever had to do so. Did he know that he was spreading lies? In an interview with Meduza, Kirillov gave us this much: \u201cWe had a sort of simplistic role, such that we didn\u2019t express our own ideas, but rather the ideas of the party, the ideas of the country\u2019s leadership. That was the essence of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">When Soviet power was crumbling and leaks and recriminations started flying among servants of the party, Kirillov emerged equally beyond reproach and beyond reproaching. This is likely because he radiated such professional integrity that no one anywhere would have ever dared call him a stooge. Or maybe it\u2019s because he understood that the further away he stayed from the brass, the safer he\u2019d be. Time again Kirillov declined to host concerts held at the Kremlin. Those were gigs well beyond the scope of his job \u2014 a job which boiled down to the prosaic recitation of official news. Beyond what was required for his work, Kirillov did not want relations with the powers-that-were.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"EmbedBlock-module_root__28k9U EmbedBlock-module_cc__1BQ5g EmbedBlock-module_default__LSDny EmbedBlock-module_mobileFullwidth__QFFLH EmbedBlock-module_proportional__3lAv4\"><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4omz_yg5ebE?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showinfo=0&amp;color=white\"  frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute\"><\/iframe>Soviet television. GOSTELERADIOFUND<\/figure>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Kirillov signed off from Vremya forever on December 30, 1989, at a time when the country was clamoring for fresh faces and new voices. Then, in early 1990, he was unexpectedly invited to host the television show Look. Kirillov had been off the air, and as someone accustomed to a decades-long massive audience reach, must have felt a void. Alexander Lyubimov, one of the founders of ViD, Vzglyad\u2019s young and independent television network, found a niche for Kirillov well-suited to his skills: Igor Leonidovich read out advertisements. It turned out to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. Vzglyad stood on more reliable, solid ground thanks to its eminent on-air host, and Kirillov seemed magically to have grown younger overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"SimpleBlock-module_p__Q3azD  SimpleBlock-module_center__2rjif\">Mr. Kirillov led the Victory Day Parade for many years (until around 2006). Post-Vremya, having shed his old official-ness, but still with his silvery baritone, he continued to show up on a variety of television programs. That baritone voice is with us now forever \u2014 a keepsake of an enormous, vanished nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MaterialNote-module_note_caption__1ezSo\">Text by <strong>Ekaterina Barabash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MaterialNote-module_note_credit__PuFyX\">Translation by <strong>Rob Viano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--noindex--><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/feature\/2021\/11\/06\/the-soviet-people-s-shrink\">Source<\/a><!--\/noindex--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Kirillov in 2006Dmitry Astakhov \/ TASS Legendary Soviet news anchor Igor Kirillov died in Moscow on October 30. He was 89 years old. For more than two decades, Kirillov hosted Vremya \u2014 a nightly news program viewed religiously throughout the entire USSR \u2014 and in doing so became a Soviet institution. 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