Alexander Maslyakov's co-host entered the profession by chance but stayed for a lifetime.
Svetlana Zhiltsova, the legendary Soviet announcer and co-host of Alexander Maslyakov on the TV show KVN, passed away at the age of 90.
One of the first to share the sad news on social media was Andrey Malakhov. "A legend is gone: Svetlana Zhiltsova has left us — the voice and face of an era, one of the most recognizable announcers of Central Television," wrote the showman. The cause of death has not yet been specified, nor has the date and place of the farewell ceremony.
Zhiltsova was a significant figure in television. She was at the forefront of its formation and flourishing. She began her creative career in her school years, after which she entered the Institute of Foreign Languages, and then started working on TV, where she initially read program schedules.
Her path as a host began by chance. Two hours before the live broadcast of a children's sports holiday, host Valentina Leontyeva felt unwell, and Zhiltsova was urgently sent to replace her. The broadcast from Luzhniki was successful, and soon she was entrusted with hosting many children's and youth programs. One of the most famous projects in her career was the show KVN, which she hosted since 1963. Zhiltsova also hosted Pesnya Goda, worked on programs such as Spokoynoy Nochi, Malish, Budilnik, Utrennyaya Pochtа, and others.
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In addition to entertainment programs, she participated in educational projects, hosted TV lessons in English for schoolchildren and students, as well as programs about the Russian language for Japanese television.
In 1986, she was offered to return to the revived KVN, but she declined, and Alexander Maslyakov began hosting the show. Since 1993, Svetlana Zhiltsova left regular broadcasting. But even in retirement, she refused to stay at home, periodically giving lectures at the Higher National School of Television.
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