Aleksander Gennadevich Kolpakov ( August 26, 1955 , Barnaul ) - Soviet, then Russian television journalist and screenwriter, at different times, was a columnist for RTR , NTV and REN TV .
| Alexander Kolpakov | ||
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| Birth name | Alexander Gennadievich Kolpakov | |
| Date of Birth | August 26, 1955 ( 64) | |
| Place of Birth | Barnaul , RSFSR , USSR | |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia | |
| Occupation | TV reporter , own correspondent, columnist, screenwriter, blogger | |
| Awards and prizes |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Television
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in 1955 in Barnaul . He served in the army, worked in a factory production run. In 1983 he graduated in absentia from the Faculty of Philology of Altai State University .
Television
Kolpakov has been working on television since 16, since graduating from high school [1] . Until 1980, he worked on Altai TV, then received an invitation to Kemerovo [1] .
In 1985, he received an invitation to work in the Kemerovo regional television as a youth editor. He conducted the program “Day by Day”, was also the author and presenter of the program “Joke Sorry!”, An analogue of KVN . Later he moved to the information editor.
In 1989, he covered mining strikes. Based on the strike, Alexander Olkhovsky wrote the play “Mountain strike, or“ What was that? ”, In which Alexander Kolpakov is one of the main characters.
Since 1993, he worked at the VGTRK on the Rossiya TV channel (RTR) as his own correspondent for the Vesti program [2] .
In 1994, he switched to the newly formed NTV channel. From 1994 to 1997 - Director of the Siberian editorial office of NTV [3] ; worked for the Today and Itogi programs with Eugene Kiselev [4] .
From 1997 to January 2001 [5] - Director of the NTV Regional Correspondent Bureau for the Republic of Belarus [6] . Repeatedly interviewed President Alexander Lukashenko [7] . Subsequently, Lukashenko spoke so about Kolpakov at one of the meetings with reporters: “ We argued with Kolpakov on certain issues, but we always found a compromise ” [2] .
He covered the actions of the Belarusian political opposition [8] . On March 25, 2000, on an opposition rally, Freedom Day was detained by police [9] . After the intervention of Vladimir Putin, Russian journalists were released. Alexander Kolpakov left the correspondent office in early 2001 in connection with the expiration of the contract [10] .
In April 2001, after a change of leadership on NTV, he remained working on this channel and entered its editorial board under the leadership of Tatyana Mitkova [11] .
From 2001 to 2004 - correspondent, special correspondent [12] of the NTV Information Service in Moscow , the Federation Council , also worked at the Ukrainian correspondence point [13] . He prepared reports for the television programs “ Today ” [14] [15] and “Personal Contribution” [16] , covered the activities of the government and the president of Russia, as well as political parties and the lower house of parliament [17] . He was among the journalists of the channel covering the terrorist attack on Dubrovka (October 23-26, 2002) [18] [19] . In early 2004, for some time he again worked as NTV's own correspondent for Belarus, after which he transferred his authority to Viktor Kuzmin and returned to Moscow [20] .
In September 2004, he was appointed chief of the correspondent network at the NTV television company [21] .
In 2005, he left NTV for various reasons and switched to working on the REN-TV channel (REN TV since September 2006) [2] .
From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a columnist for the News 24 news program [22] on REN TV [1] . He specialized in covering the activities of the president, the Russian government [23] , as well as political parties, and worked during the counting of elections in federal elections [24] .
Since September 9, 2009 he worked in Kazakhstan on the Seventh Channel [2] [25] . He blogged on the site Tengrinews.kz [1] .
Currently, he is the author of scripts for documentary projects produced by Ostankino television company [26] . Among them - "Secrets of intelligence" (TV channel " Star "), " Vasily Stalin . Payback ”,“ Boris Yeltsin . You can’t retreat ”and“ Margarita Nazarova . A woman in a cage "( Channel One ).
Rewards
- In 2003, Alexander Kolpakov, correspondent of the Directorate of Information Broadcasting of NTV Television, was awarded a diploma of the Moscow Union of Journalists in the nomination "For the best and systematic coverage of the activities of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation" [27] .
- By a decree of President of the Russian Federation Putin in November 2006, Kolpakov, then a correspondent for the information editorial office of REN TV, was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Class II, for his great contribution to the development of domestic broadcasting and many years of fruitful activity [28] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Alexander Kolpakov . Tengrinews.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Alexander Kolpakov - the leader of the Kuzbass television of the 1990s . Collocation (October 16, 2015).
- ↑ Floods in Kuzbass. Television flooding on NTV . Kommersant (April 8, 1997).
- ↑ Opposition rally dispersed in Minsk . NEWSru.com (November 12, 2000). Archived on May 9, 2016.
- ↑ RUSSIAN TV CHANNELS CHANGE DIRECTORS IN MINSK . Charter 97 (January 5, 2001).
- ↑ KOLPAKOV Alexander Gennadievich . Labyrinth (May 14, 2014).
- ↑ A. Lukashenko praised NTV for its "calm tone" . NTV (September 9, 2001).
- ↑ An NTV correspondent in Minsk was beaten by "their own" . Media.ru (March 16, 2000). Date of treatment May 3, 2019. Archived December 9, 2000.
- ↑ Mass arrests in Minsk on Freedom Day. About 500 people were detained . Human Rights Center Viasna (March 25, 2000).
- ↑ Who will head the NTV bureau in Belarus? . Komsomolskaya Pravda (January 21, 2004).
- ↑ A new editorial council of NTV Was created under the leadership of Mitkova . Lenta.ru (April 16, 2001).
- ↑ MOSCOW JOURNALISTS ABOUT UFA AND BASHKORTOSTAN . Bashinform (January 9, 2003).
- ↑ THEY ARE SO DIFFERENT ... AND ALL THOSE THEY DEPARTED . Belgazeta (July 7, 2003).
- ↑ TELEVISION. INDEPENDENCE FROM THE COUNTRY (inaccessible link) . Literary newspaper (May 12, 2004). Date of treatment May 3, 2019. Archived August 23, 2004.
- ↑ An explosion in Grozny decapitated the republic . NTV (May 9, 2004).
- ↑ NTV broadcasts a new analytical program (inaccessible link) . RBC (May 16, 2003). Date of treatment April 26, 2016. Archived on October 7, 2015.
- ↑ Communist Party and Rodina voted against Fradkov . NTV (May 12, 2004).
- ↑ Explosions and intense shooting Are heard from the side of the building of the DK GPZ building . NTV (October 26, 2002).
- ↑ Nord-Ost: Live on record for Putin . Kashin (October 25, 2014).
- ↑ NTV resumes work in Belarus . Vesti.ru (February 2, 2004).
- ↑ On NTV failure . Lenizdat (November 12, 2004).
- ↑ November 7th. On the day of the anniversary of the Great Revolution of 26 min 38 sec. 45% of the party television went on to "ER", while the Communist Party - only 26% . Communist Party of the Russian Federation (November 9, 2007).
- ↑ Mikhail Fradkov set a record for the number of flights for one official visit . Russian Railways (February 18, 2006).
- ↑ Medvedev is grateful to the Russians for their support . NTV (March 3, 2008).
- ↑ No miracles will happen in a month ... (inaccessible link) . Seventh Channel (May 13, 2013). Date of treatment April 26, 2016. Archived June 2, 2016.
- ↑ Margarita Nazarova. Woman in a cage . Channel One (April 30, 2016).
- ↑ NTV correspondent was recognized as the best television journalist covering the activities of the Federation Council in 2003 . NTV (February 9, 2004).
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 27, 2006 No. 1316 “On Awarding with State Prizes of the Russian Federation”