Gorky Television was a regional state television and radio broadcasting organization that operated in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) during the Soviet period. It is the predecessor of the modern broadcasting company NNTV.
History and Activities
Gorky Television broadcast during the period when the city was known as Gorky, up until it was renamed back to Nizhny Novgorod in 1990 and the institutional transformations that followed. Gorky Television was considered one of the best-known regional television studios in the USSR: in particular, the KVN team "Volga-66," associated with the Gorky studio, became the first winner of the all-Union KVN games in the history of the competition.[3] In 1991, NNTV was created on the basis of the former television structures, and its first director was Olga Noskova, a journalist who had begun her career at Gorky Television back in 1977. The cameraman Anatoly Baryshkov began working at Gorky Television in January 1960, at a time when there were practically no television sets in people's homes; he rose from lighting technician to chief cameraman and filmed material at restricted enterprises such as Krasnoye Sormovo and the Sokol aircraft plant.[1] Over the years, Gorky Television employed the director Alexander Sokurov, as well as the journalists Georgy Molokin, Nina Zvereva, Alexander Tsirulnikov, and Mikhail Marash; many of them later became well-known figures on Russian television.[2]
Gorky Television's broadcasts covered topics related to distinguished local natives. Among the works of Gorky Television are documentary films about the Nizhny Novgorod land and its outstanding natives: "The 750th Spring," "Where the Volga Meets the Oka," "The City of Gorky," as well as films about Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Chaliapin, and Valery Chkalov.[1] In particular, the sister of the oncologist Nikolai Nikolayevich Blokhin, Academician Irina Nikolayevna Blokhina, spoke in one of the programs about her brother, including how in 1942 he suffered from "night blindness" due to extreme exhaustion.
Continuity
The legal successor of Gorky Television is NNTV, now the state budgetary institution "NGOTRK 'NNTV,'" the parent structure of the largest media holding in Nizhny Novgorod Region, which also includes the Volga24 television channel and the Vremya N News Agency.
Beginning in the early 1990s, former employees of Gorky Television founded several independent local television companies, which contemporaries described as a true "TV explosion": local channels enjoyed incredible popularity among Nizhny Novgorod viewers.[2]
Nina Zvereva, later a two-time winner of the TEFI award and a candidate of philological sciences, began coming to the Gorky Television studio at the age of eight, where she hosted children's programs and appeared in plays, long before the start of her professional career.[3]
Sources
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Gorky Television was considered one of the best-known regional television studios in the USSR: in particular, the KVN team "Volga-66," associated with the Gorky studio, (archive)
- Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Cameraman Anatoly Baryshkov began working at Gorky Television in January 1960, at a time when there were practically no television sets in people's homes. He went through the pat (archive)
- Vremya N — In 1992, Gorky Television was split into the State Television and Radio Company "Nizhny Novgorod" (NTR) and the regional television and radio studio "Nizhny Novgorod" (N (archive)