Eduard Sagalaev - one of the founders of Soviet and Russian television, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, professor, doctor of political sciences, founder of TV-6 ... The list of merit of this public figure can be listed endlessly, but first things first.
Eduard Sagalaev - who is he?
In Russia and even in the countries of the former USSR, there are hardly any people who do not know who Eduard Sagalaev is. The biography of this man is replete with merits in the field of journalism, and later - television and science.
But few people know that Eduard Mikhailovich has two names and a nickname, like a cat.
Childhood and youth
In the city of Samarkand, the Uzbek SSR, the future journalist Eduard Sagalaev was born. Date of birth - October 3, 1946. As a child, he was an ordinary tomboy boy who did not want to study music and liked to walk with the guys in the yard.
His career began during his years at Samarkand State University, where he was a student of the Faculty of Philology. During his studies, the young man played in the city drama theater, and also worked as a radio announcer when he entered the third year.
First successes
Upon graduation from the university in 1967, Sagalaev was appointed to the post of chief editor of the Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting at the Samarkand Oblast Executive Committee. Two years later, he begins to work in the newspaper Leninsky Put, in the department of party life.
Due to good characteristics: a party member, young, married, the journalist was offered a place in the Tashkent newspaper Komsomolets Uzbekistan as executive secretary. But for a long time he did not stay there - work in this position lasted from 1972 to 1973.
Then Eduard Sagalaev was invited to Moscow, to the press sector of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. According to him, everything turned out in such a positive way by accident: it just turned out to be at the right time in the right place. Meanwhile, the young man was rapidly climbing up the career ladder.
The beginning of a career in television
After graduating from the Academy of Social Sciences, in 1975 Eduard Mikhailovich became deputy chief editor in the youth editorial board of television. This appointment was surprising for both Sagalaev himself and his colleagues - he was only a year in Moscow, and such career ups were amazing. But the journalist explains this simply: he was “burnt” with work, even didn’t walk along the corridors of the building, but ran, he wanted to do so much and be in time.
Five years later, he begins to work at the Yunost radio station as editor-in-chief, and another four years later as editor-in-chief in the youth editorial office of the State Television and Radio. Sagalaev is one of the creators of the then-popular television programs “Sight”, “Twelfth Floor” and others.
It was at this time that Eduard Mikhailovich received the nickname Mustachio-Striped from his colleagues. Because he loved to dress brightly and brightly in his youth, and came to work for the editor in a suit in black and orange stripes, similar to an Uzbek robe. As the journalist later recalls with a laugh, then with taste he was "not very." He was the youngest editorial staff member, but one of the most talented.
Career during the Perestroika era
In 88-90, Sagalaev worked as chief editor in the information department and deputy chairman of the USSR Radio and Television. He also heads the editorial office of the TV program Vremya, which was produced by this company, and runs the Seven Days program.
The last program was eventually closed due to accusations of biased reflection of reality. At this moment, Eduard Mikhailovich decides to leave the rest of his posts - he simply writes a letter of resignation to nowhere.
Later, in the 90-91s, he became the head of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, as well as the general director of the TV-6 channel. The appointment to the first post was unexpected for Sagalaev: traditionally, the chief editors of the party newspaper Pravda were appointed to this post.
In those same years, Eduard Sagalaev became first one of the founders of the International Confederation of Journalistic Unions, and then its president. In parallel with this, he leads the activities of the People's Deputy of the USSR, which he later recalls with horror and does not understand why he needed it.
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In the 90-97s, he became chairman of the International Commission on the Politics of Television and Radio, together with former US President Jimmy Carter. The purpose of this organization is the accumulation and synthesis of information on the conduct of television and radio business.
In August 1991, Eduard Mikhailovich was appointed deputy chairman of the All-Union Radio Company, and a little later, in January next year, the general director of Ostankino. But after six months, he leaves this responsible post of his own free will due to different points of view with the current authorities on what television should be like.
In the same year, Sagalaev founded the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (abbreviated as MNVK) and was one of its shareholders - together with such large companies as Lukoil, LogoVAZ and United Bank.
In 1993, Eduard Sagalaev, whose photo is presented below, becomes the president of the TV-6 channel and the head of the board of directors. In addition, he not only led the MNVK, but later also acted as the TV presenter of the program "In the World of People", which has been broadcast on the channel since 1995.
In the same 1993, Eduard Mikhailovich was a member of the working group of the Ministry of Press and Information of the Russian Federation on the development of state media policy. And three years later, he proposed the creation of the National Association of Broadcasters, which brought together more than 300 Russian television and radio companies. Sagalaev became the head of the organization and continues to maintain this post. At the same time, he was elected a member of the Academy of Russian Television.
Gradual departure from TV screens
In 1996, Eduard Sagalaev left TV-6 and became the head of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. But, as he later recalls, he was approved for this position only in order to remove his predecessor Oleg Poptsov during the election. At the same time, everyone was sure that Eduard Mikhailovich would not bring “revolutionary moods” to the team. So it happened, and a year later this post was taken by Nikolai Svanidze, and Sagalaev returned to TV-6.
In the summer of 1999, public figure Eduard Sagalaev became deputy chairman of the board of directors of ORT, but he did not hold this post until 2000. In 2001, he also resigned from the post of president of TV-6, after which the television channel was soon declared bankrupt.
In the same year, the journalist is the founder of the non-profit "Eduard Sagalaev Foundation", which was created to improve broadcasting, Internet technologies and electronic media. This organization was to follow scientific, cultural, social and other purposes useful to society.
In 2006, Eduard Mikhailovich briefly returned to the political sphere - as a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation by decree of President V.V. Putin. In the first composition of the chamber, he was the head of the subcommittee on electronic media, but in the second composition his name was not already indicated.
Three years later, Sagalaev reappeared himself on television. Eduard Mikhailovich, along with TNT channel, broadcast the program “Mystical Travels”, and also hosted the program “Encyclopedia of Errors of Eduard Sagalaev” on the cable channel “Psychology 21”.
Sagalaev’s refusal to work on television on the previous scale only pleases: he claims that this provided him with a happy old age with the possibility of traveling around the world. For example, he visited Ireland, the Himalayas and Bali.
Nationality of a public figure
According to Eduard Sagalaev, his biography did not reflect his nationality before, since his father was a Jew, and the mention of this could prevent him from moving up the career ladder. Subsequently, the journalist was ashamed of having to hide such facts, and he even went to Ukraine to find his father’s relatives.
Eduard Mikhailovich said that he always considered himself Russian - his ancestors came from a village in the Saratov region, from where they were deported to Samarkand under the Bolsheviks. The journalist traveled to his native places with Alexei Pivovarov, who filmed a program about dispossessed families. True, the village from which the ancestors of Sagalaev were born disappeared. There was nothing left of her but the abandoned graves.
Religion of Eduard Sagalaev
Eduard Mikhailovich professes Orthodox Christianity. He was baptized as a child, and his name was given to him by Vladimir. But since the journalist’s father is an atheist, he decided to name his son Edward.
Later, Sagalaev told how he asked about the phenomenon of two names from the Orthodox father. He replied that this is very good for a person, because if someone wants to curse him, he will call the name Edward, and the trouble will pass by - after all, he is actually Vladimir.
All his life, Eduard Mikhailovich thought about what kind of faith he should adhere to, was interested in Sufism, Islam, Buddhism. But in the end, he decided that if his mother decided to baptize him, then it was God's will. And he came in heart to the Orthodox faith.
Hobbies and achievements
About himself, this amazing person says that he is primarily a philologist. Therefore, he has corresponding interests: poetry of Yesenin, Pushkin, Pasternak. He can talk endlessly on these topics and considers them to be part of his soul. In addition, Sagalaev loves Montaigne's philosophical prose, as well as contemporary writers.
Eduard Mikhailovich - laureate of the USSR State Prize for 1978, awarded the Orders of Friendship of Peoples and the "For Services to the Fatherland" sixth (in 2006) and third (in 2011) degrees. He received a special prize from TEFI in 2002, winner of the awards "Manager of Russia-2004", "Telegrand-2005".
In addition, he is a professor, doctor of political sciences, a member of the International academies: television arts and sciences, informatization. He is a co-director of the Council of Media Industry Associations.
A family
Despite the wide popularity and media character of such a person as Eduard Sagalaev, his personal life is practically not put on public display. It is known that he has been married for a long time, from which two children were born - a son and a daughter.
Son Mikhail is a film producer, daughter Julia is a correspondent. Also in the press it is mentioned that Eduard Sagalaev has already become a grandfather three times. His family was replenished with grandchildren: Mikhail, Anya and Julia.