Vysotskaya, Olga Sergeevna

Born in Moscow in the family of an electrician on the railway .

Already at the age of 8, she came to the Zarnitsa children's club, read poetry, and danced. She was fond of theater, participated in the theater studio "Blue Bird". After school, she worked at the factory as a sorter of silk . I went in for sports a lot, so successfully that I even taught children physical education .

Passion for physical education brought her to the radio . Since 1929, she participated in the preparation of the lessons of Morning Gymnastics on the All-Union Radio . A chance helped to debut as a speaker: by the time the news release began, there were not a single speaker at the studio. The rare timbre of the voice combined with magnificent diction, the intimacy of intonation attracted the attention of listeners and broadcasters of the radio.

Since 1932 he has already read information and other radio programs. And very soon becomes a leading speaker . Simplicity, persuasiveness, clarity, confidentiality of its reading on air along with excellent knowledge of the subtleties of the Russian language, culture of speech - all this made her the leading announcer of All-Union Radio.

O. Vysotskaya’s track record includes the most important broadcasts, live broadcasts from Red Square , from the Kremlin Palace of Congresses , and broadcast concerts and performances from the Column Hall , the Bolshoi Theater , the Moscow Art Theater and other theaters.

Especially talent revealed during the war years. Then radio news from the fronts, Sovinformburo reports were associated in the performance of Soviet people with the voices of O.S. Vysotskaya and Yu. B. Levitan . Together with Yu. Levitan on the night of May 9, 1945, she transmitted a message about the surrender of fascist Germany , and on June 24 of that year she broadcast from the Victory Parade . In 1986-1989, she read the text “Minutes of Silence” (“Blessed Memory of the Fallen in the Struggle Against Fascism ...”), the annual traditional television and radio program on Soviet television and radio, one of the solemnly mourning rituals of Victory Day.

Until 1970, it was the "voice" of Moscow exact time .

She worked on the radio with E. M. Tobias ^[1] .

She was preparing the first television programs on only the nascent Soviet television .

From 1990 to 2000 she was the main female announcer of the Filevskaya line of the Moscow Metro . From 1990 to 1994, the dubbing was very unsuccessful and a little rude, but in 1994 the voice was re-sounded and began to sound quieter, calmer and a little softer, the only nuance of the rude dubbing of 1990 is the recording - “The train goes to Molodezhnaya station”. O. Vysotskaya’s voice was broadcast on the Filyovskaya line until 2005 (before the opening of the “Business Center” station, now “ Vystavochnaya ”), and was later replaced by the voices of young announcers Yu. Romanova-Kutina (from the Aleksandrovsky Sad station) and S. Kulikovskikh (from the Krylatskoye station, now from the Kuntsevskaya station). Also from 1990 to 2004 she was the main female voice of the Kaluga-Riga line paired with Vladimir Sushkov; as of February 2018, several head cars were preserved in the Sviblovo electric depot, in which her voice was recorded in the autoinformer.

She worked at the microphone for 60 years, became a living legend of the domestic radio .

She was a teacher, mentor of young radio and television announcers.

Died September 26, 2000 in Moscow. She was buried at Pyatnitsky cemetery (plot 3) ^{[2] [3]} .

• People's Artist of the USSR ( 1980 )
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, III degree ( June 7, 1996 ) - for merits to the state, a great personal contribution to the development of speaker art ^[4]
• Order of Lenin ( 1985 )
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Medals.

• Exact Time Service

• Museum of Radio and Television
• Olga Vysotskaya, an outstanding speaker of Soviet radio, has died