Sinyavsky, Vadim Svyatoslavovich

Born on August 10, 1906 in Smolensk. From the age of 15 he was brought up by his stepmother, M.P. Tretyakova, and niece of P.M. Tretyakov .

He graduated from the Institute of Physical Education. Possessed an absolute pitch, in his youth he worked as a taper in Moscow cinemas.

In 1929 he was hired by the Radio Committee as an instructor in physical education broadcasting. Sinyavsky created and conducted the first gymnastics lesson on All-Union Radio. On May 26, 1929, he conducted the first sports report from a football match between the national teams of Moscow and Ukraine on Soviet radio.

In 1935 he conducted the first foreign football report about the USSR match - Turkey .

Since September 1941, he fought on the Western Front, where he conducted radio reports under the heading “The Western Front Says”. On November 7, 1941, he was reporting from the historical parade on Red Square with the participation of troops heading for the front line.

In 1942 - in the Crimea, in the city of Sevastopol besieged by the enemy. He conducted reports from the Malakhov Kurgan . March 1, 1942 was one of his reporting; “ Says Sevastopol! "- he managed to broadcast only the first phrase, before the next instant he was covered by an explosion of a mine that exploded nearby. Soviet gunners suppressed the mortar battery of the Germans, and the seriously wounded Sinyavsky was taken out of the battlefield, then he lost his left eye. On the Great Land, Sinyavsky was treated for 3 months.

But from the hospital bed he again rushed to Sevastopol - to complete a series of materials on how the city of Russian glory fights. In Sevastopol, Sinyavsky was until the last days of defense. In November 1942, when fierce battles were fought in Stalingrad, and preparations for the Soviet counteroffensive were conducted in deep secrecy, the Reich Minister of Propaganda Goebbels announced to the whole world that the city on the Volga, bearing the name of the Bolshevik leader, had fallen under the blows of the gallant 6th army of Paulus : such a gift to Stalin on the 25th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. From Moscow (in fact, from Stalingrad), a peculiar answer to Goebbels from Vadim Sinyavsky in the form of a radio report from a fighting city on the Volga sounded to the whole world. Sinyavsky was so convincing and emotional in form and content that in the capital of the Third Reich they could not find any intelligible counterarguments. Enraged Goebbels included Sinyavsky in the list of his personal enemies and enemies of Germany.

At the end of January 1943, Vadim Sinyavsky had the opportunity to attend the surrender of the 6th German army, Friedrich Paulus , to whom Hitler had awarded the rank of Field Marshal the day before. The last in a series of journalist's Stalingrad reports was a story from the basement of a dilapidated city department store, where the commander of a defeated enemy army was captured.

Vadim Sinyavsky also became a participant in the battle of Kursk . He happened to be directly in battle formations, in one of the armored vehicles, from where he was reporting directly from the battlefield - this is perhaps the only such case in the war. Vadim Sinyavsky coverage of military events on the radio, being on the Bryansk, Central, Stepnoy, 1 Ukrainian, 2 Belorussian, 1 Baltic fronts. Major V. S. Sinyavsky was in the active Red Army from September 1941 to October 1944.

Finding himself on official duty in Moscow on August 27, 1944, Sinyavsky commented on the final match of the USSR Football Cup, which was renewed during the war, in which Zenit from Leningrad defeated the Moscow Central Command and Control Center : “ Moscow says. Our microphones are installed in the central stadium Dynamo ... ".

Sinyavsky resumed regular sports reports in October 1944. This happened literally a day after he, along with the fighters, went to Kaunas in a column of advancing Soviet troops. On June 24, 1945, the Victory Parade was held. A report from him was also conducted by Sinyavsky.

Vadim Sinyavsky became the founder of television football reporting in our country. On June 29, 1949, he first commented on the Dynamo- CDKA match from the commentary booth of the stadium in Petrovsky Park, broadcast on television ^{[2] [3]} . For football fans, this was an event.

In addition to football, Sinyavsky commented on boxing, athletics, swimming, speed skating and chess competitions. The last time he went on the air on May 2, 1971 during a report from the Garden Ring on the track and field relay race for the prize of the newspaper "Evening Moscow" .

Vadim Sinyavsky died July 3, 1972, was buried in Moscow at the Don cemetery.

• Wife - Irina Pavlovna Kirillova, journalist for the newspaper Pravda.
• Children - Sergey Sinyavsky (1933-1995), Yuri Sinyavsky (1943-2011), Marina Sinyavskaya (born 1955).

• 1946 - Attack Center - football radio commentator
• 1951 - Sports Honor - football radio commentator
• 1961 - Artist from Kokhanivka - football radio commentator (match Spartak (Moscow) - Dynamo (Kiev))
• 1965 - Sleeping Lion - commentator in Tsvetkov’s dream

• 1946 - Quiet glade - hedgehog-commentator
• 1948 - Champion Commentator
• 1950 - Who is the first? - hedgehog-commentator
• 1953 - Our Champions - Commentator
• 1954 - Signature illegible - voice on TV (not credited)
• 1967 - Time Machine - Sports Commentator

• Order of the Red Banner ^[4]
• Order of the Red Star (11/6/1947) ^[5]
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1957)
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (1944)
• medal "For the defense of Sevastopol" (1942)
• medal "For the defense of Stalingrad" (1942) and other medals
• Breastplate of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR “25th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (1970)

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