Valery Komissarov
{{short description|Russian TV host and politician}}
{{family name hatnote|Yakovlevich |Komissarov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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| name = Valery Komissarov
| image = Valery Komissarov.jpg
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| caption =
| native_name = Валерий Комиссаров
| native_name_lang = ru
| birth_name = Valery Yakovlevich Komissarov
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|4|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
| nationality = USSR → Russia
| education =
| alma_mater = MISiS
| occupation = TV and internet content author, producer, director, and host
| years_active = 1987–present
| known_for =
| spouse = Alla Komissarova
| children = 5
| website =
}}
Valery Yakovlevich Komissarov ({{langx|ru|link=no|Вале́рий Я́ковлевич Комисса́ров}}; born 12 April 1965) is a host, producer, director, and screenwriter of numerous television shows. Financial Times named him “the father of Russian reality show".{{Cite news |date=2011-12-16 |title=Mother of all TV shows |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/52946642-2608-11e1-856e-00144feabdc0 |access-date=2022-04-18}} He is a former member of the party United Russia, former State Duma deputy (1999–2011).
Biography
Komissarov was born on April 12, 1965, in Kharkiv (former USSR, now Ukraine). In 1987, he graduated from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, and earned a diploma in directing from the Institute for Advanced Training of Television and Radio Broadcasting Workers. In 1987, he started working at the Lublin Casting and Mechanical Plant and at the State Institute for the Design of Metallurgical Enterprises (GIPROMEZ). In 1988, he was hired as an administrator for the Youth Editorial Board at the Central Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of the USSR. In 1989–1992, he worked as a special correspondent for the then-popular television program Outlook Vzglyad{{Cite web |date=2003-02-12 |title=Страшный секрет Валерия Комиссарова |url=https://archive.aif.ru/archive/1627984 |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=AiF |language=ru}} and co-wrote Visiting a Fairy Tale, a television series for children.
From November 1993 to March 1995, Komissarov created and hosted the Channel of Illusions, a television show produced by ATV on Channel 1 Ostankino. Then he moved to the Moscow Television Channel (MTK), where, from April 1995 to July 1996, he hosted shows Men’s and Women's Stories and The Plainspoken Men’s Club. He then created and hosted the television show My Family, which aired from July 1996 on the television network ORT and from January 1998 to August 2003 on RTR (which later was renamed Rossiya and still later became Rossiya-1).{{Cite news |date=2003-04-22 |title=Антон ЗЛАТОПОЛЬСКИЙ: "Без Комиссарова "Моя семья" теряет смысл" |url=https://iz.ru/news/275895 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250123215304/https://iz.ru/news/275895 |archive-date=2025-01-23 |access-date=2025-03-11 |work=Известия |language=ru}} He also wrote and hosted the shows Mary's Grove (1998){{Cite web |title=На вопрос: "Чего хочет женщина?" - Валерий Комиссаров ответит новым ток-шоу на РТР |url=https://on-demand.eastview.com/browse/doc/3224477 |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=on-demand.eastview.com}} and The Ideal Man (2001) on the same network.{{Cite web |date=2001-05-21 |title=МУЖЧИНКИ РОССИИ |url=http://2001.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2001/27n/n27n-s23.shtml |access-date=2022-04-18 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010521210908/http://2001.novayagazeta.ru/nomer/2001/27n/n27n-s23.shtml |archive-date=21 May 2001 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |date=2002-07-03 |title=СМИ |url=http://www.og.ru/archieve/2001/20/mat/smi1.shtml |access-date=2022-04-18 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020703005435/http://www.og.ru/archieve/2001/20/mat/smi1.shtml |archive-date=3 July 2002 |url-status=dead}}
He went on to write and produce multiple television shows, including To Your Health!, Family News,{{Cite web |date=2000-10-19 |title="ВЛАСТИТЕЛИ ДУМ" НА БАЗАРНОЙ ПЛОЩАДИ |url=https://www.trud.ru/article/19-10-2000/13772_vlastiteli_dum_na_bazarnoj_ploschadi.html |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=www.trud.ru |language=ru-RU}} What Does A Woman Want?”, “Girl's Tears”,{{Cite web |date=2018-07-23 |title=Городской дилижанс |url=http://www.chelpress.ru/newspapers/dil/archive/27-03-2003/6/SLEZY.shtml.ru |access-date=2022-04-18 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723003719/http://www.chelpress.ru/newspapers/dil/archive/27-03-2003/6/SLEZY.shtml.ru |archive-date=23 July 2018 |url-status=dead}} The Burden Of Money, House, and Personal News Service{{Cite web |date=2003-07-07 |title=Переключая каналы |url=https://iz.ru/news/278660 |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=Известия |language=ru}} a talk show Okna (Windows) and reality show Dom-2 (House 2){{Cite web |date=2014-11-20 |title=К "Дому-2" подвели трубы |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2614582 |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Коммерсантъ |language=ru}}
In 2011, Komissarov started airing the reality show Mother in Law on the television network Peretz.{{Cite web |title=Нагиев, Ургант и Андрейченко зададут перца |url=https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/nagiev_urgant_i_andreichenko_zadadut_pertsa_32219/ |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=Вокруг.ТВ |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Без отца |url=https://expert.ru/2011/10/14/bez-ottsa/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=expert.ru}} His television show Machine{{Cite web |title=Бюст Даны Борисовой победил грудь Анны Семенович |url=https://sobesednik.ru/shou-biznes/20141015-byust-dany-borisovoy-pobedil-grud-anny-semenovich |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=sobesednik.ru |language=ru}} and his sketch show Happy End were aired on the same network, while the television network "Ю" ran his daily talk show I am right (#Yaprava).{{Cite web |title=Валерий Комиссаров: Возвращаю "великого маленького человека" |url=https://sobesednik.ru/kultura-i-tv/20151203-valeriy-komissarov-vozvrashchayu-velikogo-malenkogo-chelovek |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=sobesednik.ru |language=ru}} From November 16 to December 30, 2015, he directed and hosted Our Man, a television show aired on Russia-1.
Komissarov lives with his wife,{{cite web|url=http://www.womanhit.ru/archive/109154-valeriy-komissarov-ya-zapreschayu-svoim-detyam-smotret-televizor.html|title=Валерий Комиссаров: Я запрещаю своим детям смотреть телевизор|publisher=МК-Бульвар|date=May 21, 2001}} four daughters and one son.{{cite web|url=http://www.wday.ru/seks-otnosheniya/sem/valeriy-komissarov-rojayte-v-lyubom-vozraste/3/|title=Валерий Комиссаров: Рожайте в любом возрасте!|publisher=Antenna TeleSeven|date=December 12, 2015}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.lobbying.ru/content/persons/id_831_linkid_116.html Биография]
- [https://kino.rambler.ru/tv/40794740-chto-stalo-s-veduschim-moey-semi/ Что стало с ведущим «Моей семьи» Валерием Комиссаровым]
- {{IMDb name|4050266}}
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