The once-popular television presenter has disappeared from the country's blue screens for several years. Mikhail Osokin is now engaged in literary and journalistic activities, as he himself says. His articles appear regularly in various publications, including in The Interlocutor, where he works as a columnist. The presenter is not going to return to radio and television, because he likes quiet creative activity, when a journalist can write about what is interesting to him.
Origin
Mikhail Glebovich Osokin was born on January 14, 1952 in Tver. Mother Anastasia Ivanovna Osokina and stepfather Viktor Kadievich Magatayev worked on television in Novosibirsk, then they were invited to organize Volgograd TV. The director of which later worked as the mother of Mikhail Osokin. His father was for some time an announcer on Tverskoye Radio, then in the magazines Peasant and Around the World. On this side, he has German roots, Osokin's great-great-grandfather - a state adviser, lived in Courland, and later moved to the central regions of the country.
Osokin's parents divorced before the birth of their son. After Anastasia Ivanovna got married again, Mikhail had a younger brother, Alexander Magatayev. The latter worked for a long time at the editorial office of the Seven Days publishing house, and then became the project manager at Russian Nanotechnologies.
early years
Mikhail Osokin spent his childhood in Volgograd, where he studied at a school with in-depth study of the English language. He began to become interested in politics early: he read the newspaper of the British Communist Party Morning Star and listened to the broadcasts of the banned Radio Liberty. After graduating from high school, Osokin entered the history department of Moscow State University.
However, from the second year he was kicked out for participating in a protest rally: during the harvesting of potatoes, a group of students were outraged by poor living conditions. Activists were expelled from the Komsomol, which meant then automatic expulsion from the university. In the same year, Osokin was drafted into the army, Mikhail served in the air defense forces, as the squad leader, was a mechanic of transport aircraft.
After demobilization, he recovered at the university, which he graduated in 1975. Then he continued his extramural studies at the graduate school of Moscow State University, in 1983 he defended his thesis on the history of the Middle East
Beginning of work
Right after the institute, when he could not get a job in his specialty, friends invited Mikhail Osokin to the radio. From 1977 to 1999 he worked in the editorial office of broadcasting in the USA and Great Britain at the World Service of Moscow Radio. At that time, many subsequently famous journalists worked there, including Vladimir Pozner and Alexander Lyubimov.
In 1990, he went to work for Central Television in the information department. As TV presenter Mikhail Osokin writes in his biography, he was accidentally offered a place when the editors of the Vremya program were looking for new faces. At first, he did the same thing as on the radio - he commented, prepared stories on various international topics. And since 1991, Osokin became the leading news releases, first nightly and then evening.
NTV face
Since the founding of the new channel in October 1993, Osokin has worked as a host of various information programs. He worked at the NTV television company from 1993 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2006. For many viewers, TV presenter Mikhail Osokin is primarily associated with this channel, where he hosted the Today program. Many noted that he is the only leading American type on Russian television: a middle-aged, intelligent and calm person who tells stories. The journalist himself believes that such an image has a calming effect on the audience.
From 2006 to 2008, he was the host of the Now information program on the international RTVi channel, which broadcasts in Russian to the countries of the former Soviet Union. Then, for several years, he led the release of final news on the REN TV channel. The last television work was the program “What happened? With Mikhail Osokin,” aired on YouTube. After 2014, he leads columns in various publications, from 2017 in the Story magazine.
personal information
Almost nothing is known about the first family of Mikhail Osokin. Only that the daughter of Anna Osokina’s first marriage, after finishing the journalism department of Moscow State University, works on television as the editor of the Channel One information service.
With his second wife Elena Savina, Osokin worked for a long time on various television channels. She was the chief editor of almost all her husband’s programs. It was Savina who suggested for the author’s program "What happened?" combine drawings with news releases. Cartoons for the air were drawn by Mikhail Glebovich himself.
Osokin is fluent in English and French, well knows ancient Greek and Latin. He likes to read, collects rare stamps. Rollerblading. NTV has long believed that he gets them to work. However, Mikhail Glebovich himself said that he simply took skates to work, then to ride. And from the center of Moscow to Ostankino on roller skates you simply can’t get there.