Lanevsky Boris Pavlovich (January 14, 1952 - December 31, 2015) - Honored Journalist of Ukraine, sports commentator, USSR master of sports in basketball.
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For more than thirty-five years of work on the air, Boris Lanevsky has conducted more than two thousand reports from football, basketball, volleyball, hockey matches on television. He commented from the scene of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Biography
Born in the village of Bukhtarma, Kazakhstan, in the family of a military engineer - Pavel Adamovich Lanevsky and Ninel Alekseevna. At work, Boris Lanevsky’s father Pavel Adamovich and his family left Bukhtarma on the seventh day after the birth of his son, and then the family lived in Irkutsk. When Boris Lanevsky was five years old, the family settled in Kharkov.
In 1963, Boris Lanevsky began to play basketball at the Avangard sports school with the outstanding coach Felix Mikhailovich Margulis. He played for the youth team of Ukraine. In 1969 he became the champion of the USSR among youth teams. He played for the Builder team (Kharkov) from 1969 to 1978. Winner of the first league of the USSR, master of sports of the USSR in basketball. Two-time champion of Ukraine in basketball among veterans. At the end of his basketball career, he worked as a basketball coach at the Youth Sports School-3, and was a coach of the Kharkiv region youth team. Graduated from Kharkov State University named after Gorky.
After a basketball career, television was firmly entrenched in the life of Boris Pavlovich. Prior to that, when Boris Lanevsky played in the youth team of Ukraine, he was invited to the program of the Kharkov television “Basketball Lessons”. There, Boris Lanevsky was seen by the senior editor of children's programs, Raisa Ilyinichna Sanina, and decided to try it as the leading children's entertainment and sports program “Starts of Hopes” - first with Tatyana Rostik, and soon as an independent presenter. The program was the record holder for the number of broadcasts - 178 issues. After that, Kharkov TV news editor Valentin Ivanovich Chernyak suggested that Boris Lanevsky should broadcast sports news on air. Since 1981, sports issues have become a constant and daily component of news on Kharkov television and Boris Pavlovich left his coaching career, choosing to work on television.
Since 2000, Boris Lanevsky is the head of the sports editorial office of the Kharkiv television and radio company "Sports TV Channel Kharkov."
Since the beginning of the 1980s, Boris Lanevsky has been commenting on almost all home games of the Kharkov club Metalist. He was a regular employee of the all-Union program “Football Review”. In 1996, Boris Lanevsky, in a team of Ukrainian television commentators, worked from the scene at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta (USA), when for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, our country acted as a separate team, as well as the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano (Japan).
Even after retiring at the end of March 2015, Boris Lanevsky took part in numerous sports projects in Kharkov and Ukrainian television as a consultant and journalist. As early as the morning of December 31, 2015, he arranged for an interview after the New Year holidays, and after 21.00 p.m. on the same day, his relatives reported that the heart of the sports commentator had stopped beating