Kushnerev died from what. Colleagues and relatives said goodbye to television master Sergei Kushnerev

On February 27, Sergei Kushnerev, the author of the Wait for Me and The Last Hero projects, passed away. In early February, Sergei Kushnerev had a stroke. On February 17, the help of doctors was again required - Sergey Kushnerev was brought to the hospital in an unconscious state. The survey revealed serious illness, and for more than a week the doctors fought for his life.

Sergey Kushnerev was born on March 8, 1962 in Moscow. He began his career in the Komsomolskaya Pravda publication, where he worked as an intern, and then as a correspondent and head of the student youth department. Kushnerev also worked for Novaya Daily Gazeta and Moscow News.

In 1994, a capable journalist was invited to the Vzglyad program. Two years later, Sergei became the editor-in-chief of the VID television company. On the set of the program, Kushnerev met Sergei Bodrov Jr., with whom he later launched the show "The Last Hero", which in a short time became one of the most popular on Russian TV.

Among Kushnerev's awards, you can find several TEFI, the medal "For Labor Valor", the Order of Friendship, an honorary badge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Russian Federation and the award of the Union of Journalists of Moscow. The man considers his life motto to be a quote from Ivan Bunin's poem "Saadi's Testament": "Be generous like a palm tree, and if you can't, be like a cypress trunk - straight and simple, noble."

The well-known producer was a close friend of Sergei Bodrov Jr., who tragically died in September 2002 when a glacier descended in the Karmadon Gorge. Kushnerev was the godfather of the heirs of the director and actor. In a documentary dedicated to the deceased star, the journalist spoke about how his children grew up. " Sasha is the same box as he is. He likes to hide everything, put it on the shelves. Don't touch his things. And Olya, with all her outward simplicity, is such a very deep girl. As Seryozha said: "Look how she looks with her eyes." Each of them looks like him in their own way.", the man shared.

Sergei Kushnerev was the godfather of the children of Sergei Bodrov // Photo: Frame of the documentary film “Sergey Bodrov. "What is the strength in, brother?"

"Seryozha Kushnerev died. The most honest, bright and talented thing that happened to our television. The best thing that happened to him. So unclaimed, as if superfluous in recent years. There are no words to say about all this. It hurts a lot- Katerina Gordeeva.

"If there is a god of producers, then he is already drinking with Kushnerev and is stunned by his new ideas. Books should be written and films made about such creators as Sergey Kushnerev. The most annoying thing is that you understand this best when you write something like an obituary...." - Stanislav Kucher.

"The first letters to the program "Wait for me" were registered by him. Personally. Editor-in-Chief of the TV company "ViD". I sat down at the computer and did it at an unrealistic speed ...
This was the beginning. Now those first dozens of letters have turned into two and a half million stories...
In a program that has been living for eighteen years.
And will continue to live.
If with the help of the “Wait for me” program you have found relatives or people close to you, please remember today about Sergey Kushnerev.
You did not know him personally - but he played a role in your destiny. This is true
- The editors of the program "Wait for me".

The Muscovite, who was 54 years old, was most directly related to such television projects as "Look", "Wait for me", "The Last Hero", "Star Factory".

In Moscow today, February 27, the legendary TV journalist and producer of Channel One Sergey Kushnerev died. On March 8, he was supposed to celebrate his 55th birthday. The cause of death was a previous stroke.

On the last day of January, Kushnerev was hospitalized with a second stroke, and his condition was assessed as serious - the man was brought to intensive care already unconscious, according to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Colleagues and students of Sergei, however, were shocked by the tragic news. Yes, according to CEO radio station "Moscow Says" Vladimir Mamontov, he recently talked with Kushnerev and discussed his plans. Sergei took a break from his career on television and worked on his own book, StarHit reports.

Sergey Kushnerev died, - said Mamontov. - 54. Early, wildly. He is known as the creator of the TV programs "Wait for me", "The Last Hero". TEFI and all that. Friend of Sergei Bodrov, godfather of his children. But he did a lot of imperceptibly important things for Komsomolskaya Pravda as well. He was the first person to own a computer at all. They asked: “Earring, what is it, and why?” He changed the newspaper format by the method of small deeds - realizing that post-Soviet readers should be taken for a living, he struggled with long bad essays, dividing the page into "quarters". Then it became A3 format. But if he came across a masterpiece, he was the most generous otvetsek (responsible secretary - ed.) in the world.

According to Mamontov, Kushnerev tried to fight the routine.

Sergei raised young journalists in his nursery, he added. - I hated stamps, notes for “tick” ... We ended up in different camps in the 90s, it concerned the future of the newspaper, corporatization, etc., but we kept human contacts, although not frequent.

Photographer Yuri Feklistov expressed his condolences.

The sad news came, he complained. - Sergei Kushnerev died. I was so hoping you'd pull through. Oh, Sergei ... We will remember.

Gratitude to the departed mentor was also expressed by the host of the Russia 1 TV channel Sergey Brilev.

Only 54, - he noted. - Most people know him as the creator of the "Wait for me" program. But for us, he is the responsible secretary of that wonderful Komsomolskaya Pravda, which thundered in the early 90s, and where many of us started ... But I often quote him. When someone scolds someone else's note or story, I refer to it and say: "Write better." He was a wonderful answer to us! He taught me a lot personally.

A native of Moscow is a person who has set a number of records on our television, including the highest share in the history of domestic media measurements (“The Last Hero-1”, 2001). He opened for TV Sergei Bodrov Jr., Chulpan Khamatova, Igor Kvasha, Maria Shukshina. For 19 years, Sergei was the editor-in-chief of the VID television company.

Seryozha Kushnerev was at the age of 28 the executive secretary of Komsomolskaya Pravda. That "Komsomolskaya Pravda" of the turn of the 1990s, the circulation of which soared in perestroika from the Soviet 11 million copies. to over twenty million. And it was the most circulated newspaper in the world.

Seryozha Kushnerev was among those who left this very Komsomolskaya Pravda in the winter of 1992-1993 to nowhere. Together with Dmitry Muratov, they led the team of “Ushels” and in April 1993 founded Novaya Gazeta.

Serezha Kushnerev was the editor-in-chief of the VID TV company in 1994-2014. Laureate of the TEFI award in 2001, 2002, 2007 (as a screenwriter and producer), member of the Russian Television Academy. He brought on the air Igor Kvasha, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Shukshina. He came up with and produced the wonderful TV project Take a Step. And many others: but "Take a Step" with its eccentrics, stubborn people, performers of feats on those square meters where fate has placed, ---- very Seryozhkin's idea.

And here is his main “Take a step”: Kushnerev created, headed for fifteen years, rebuilt the television project “Wait for me” into the national service for searching for missing people.

He was also the most brilliant boy in our course: Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University, autumn 1979. And the most ruddy. And the most reasonable - until he exploded with anger, laughter, or started waving his arms, setting out an idea. He was a journalist from God - and before others (like many things) he understood the true value and power of the profession. Then - trampled down and soiled: newspapers were only state-owned, 17-year-old citizens of the USSR did not look forward to seeing others ...

A journalist - from God, but not "by inheritance". The family includes doctors and scientists. English School on Leninsky Prospekt. Excellent student - there are no rounds. Not the slightest desire to respectfully return the student card of the Soviet government and decadent, dissident ...

About what is worse - to do business in the country of five-year plans, what it is, or to beat the thumbs and read copiers? - they argued on the porch of the journalism department. Lots of evil.

And no stagnation, no censorship, no ideological differences of yesterday's schoolchildren were worth that anger.

... Every morning he took his seven-year-old sister Nastya to school - and shared the concerns of her upbringing. He spoke in quotations from Milne, Carroll and Kipling. He disappeared at the Bird Market and wrote a treatise about him for a long time for Scarlet Sail - the blessed memory of the "school page" of Komsomolskaya Pravda, a small colored island of freedom in journalism of the 1970s and early 1980s.

He was the best student of the legend of the Faculty of Journalism - Professor of Ancient Literature Elizaveta Petrovna Kuchborskaya. And he was going to write someday the book "Prometheus in world culture."

No one doubted that his career would be very big. With black limousines and other horrors from Galich's songs. I chuckled: "To be your new Suvorin ...". He shrugged.

In the autumn of 1980, at the university "potato", at the Borodino state farm in the Mozhaisk district, Seryozhka volunteered to be a chef. Fed with a small crew of 230 souls. Before dinner, he went out to the long canteen of the pioneer camp, in a white cap, melancholy saying:

Today we eat the cow Nadezhda. In the form of pasta in the Navy.

We were especially lucky in the autumn of 1980, on the Borodino field, with cow names. They allocated a course from the state farm herd for food - Faith, Hope and Love. And another heifer Vetka. We ate them.

... Kushnerev's hands in those weeks were covered with long burn scars. From hot pans with cheesecakes and donuts. The best girls of the course fought for the right to heal them.

He worked at Komsomolskaya Pravda (continuing, of course, to study brilliantly during the day) from the second year. This is what the smartest do now: in 1980 he was an exception. At the age of 20, in 1982-1983, he invented and twice organized the All-Union Exhibition-Fair of Student Developments of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Strictly speaking, it was an all-Russian startup fair. Inventions of the same third-year students - physicists, chemists, biologists, programmers.

Only thirty years ago, no one in the USSR knew the word "startup". And this fair was made not by a team of pros - but by student Kushnerev (with the resource of Komsomolskaya Pravda behind his back, yes). He did not get out of the editorial office until ... eleven o'clock. And he plowed even then - more and more not as an author, but as an editor and organizer - just like in the early 1980s, before the hard whip of new times, few people dreamed of.

In 1986-1987 we were making a new student tab for Komsomolskaya Pravda. Times have changed. Thundered for the first time dog's heart", and we repeated:" I am a Moscow student, not Sharikov. In the student department (Kushnerev was in charge of it) hung a large, like a banner, photograph of Yura Feklistov: a boy in jeans and a T-shirt, standing on the bronze knee of Lomonosov (“our” Lomonosov, on Mokhovaya, near the journalism faculty of Moscow State University), washes the monument with a hose.

Seryozha then walked in an old flight leather jacket. To all the “ahs” (and the kozhan went to him, as in 1943), he succinctly said: “Family”. Nothing more: he generally knew how to be strict with employees.

In February 2017, during the days of his illness, I found on the Web an interview with Kushnerev, the producer of Wait for Me and the winner of the national Fame award. Among many other things, he told how, at the “Wait for me” teleconference with Beijing, the former Minister of Aircraft Industry of the PRC was looking for a classmate in Russia. Next, I’m just quoting Seryozha on Komsomolskaya Pravda -2010.

from an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2010

Sergey Kushnerev:

... By a strange coincidence, I could tell this story myself.

... In the 50s of the last century, when the future Minister of Aircraft Engineering was a student and studied in the Soviet Union, he had a classmate, to whom he once sang a Chinese folk song about a pilot who died defending China from invaders - he shot down five enemy planes, and then he himself was shot down, his plane fell into the Yangtze River, where he is now buried as a folk hero, as is said in Chinese primers and sung in Chinese songs.

The future minister sang this song to his classmate because her name seemed to him consonant with the name of the pilot. And he was not mistaken, it was his daughter, who at that time did not know anything about her father, except that back in the thirties he had not returned from a mission from somewhere ... Everything was classified - he did not return, that's all. And suddenly she hears a song that her father is a national hero of China and is buried there...

I knew this story even before our Chinese colleagues told it to me, because this pilot, Captain Grigory Akimovich Kulishenko, is my grandfather. And his daughter and, accordingly, classmate the former Chinese minister he is looking for is my mother.

In the fall of 1987, I left Komsomolskaya Pravda for graduate school. The heyday of the newspaper in 1988-1992, conflicts, the departure of a large company from the editorial office to nowhere, who liked to repeat “I am a Moscow student, not Sharikov”, swept somewhere outside the walls of Rumyantsevka ... Especially since the shock therapy in 1992 hit on academic institutions (well, for me) immediately, direct fire.

In the winter of 1993, in the evening, in a snowstorm, I ran along Maroseyka. Kushnerev was standing at the edge of the sidewalk. The expression on the face of the most brilliant boy of our course, the secretary of a newspaper with 22 million copies, was such that I babbled "Seryozha, Serezha, how glad I am!" rushed to him.

He came out of his daze:

Dyakova? I'm fine. And in perfect order.

And since then, with the words "nail the flag to the mast with nails", "hold on bravely" and so on - I always see this. Not anything from the Russian classics. Not the White Guard, not Dumas, not Reverte.

Maroseyka, darkness, lights, snowstorm, winter of 1993, fair-haired Seryozhka straightening his shoulders:

I'm all right. And I don't have much time to talk.

... He called about six months later, grumblingly saying:

We now have our own newspaper. Two rooms in Nagatino. Would you go...

Novaya Daily Gazeta had these two rooms on the outskirts, filmed in a dying scientific research institute. Eight computers donated by M.S. Gorbachev "with Nobel Prize". No investors: they stood on that. No resources - except for partisans in stalks, the number of souls is thirty.

Cigarettes in Nagatino were divided by the piece: three "pegasines" for a brother-sister - it was already good.

Nowhere and never did one work and make friends so bravely, so warmly, so talentedly as there.

It's you writing here, soloing. And we are fighters of the invisible front… - grunted Kushnerev, who had long chosen the hardest and most donor work in journalism as an editor. Chief. Inventor of topics and projects. Adjuster of meanings and intonations. The organizer ... yes, everything: the report "The Stall as a Birdhouse of Capitalism", fairy tales for the New Year's issue, a special issue about the putsch on October 3-4, 1993. (Half the editorial staff then worked on the streets of Moscow. Novaya, with its then circulation of almost three thousand, was the first to say: this is a common tragedy. A fight between our own).

And so: just at the turn of the 1990s, the wind outweighed the signs. Talleyrand's words "A revolution means hundreds of vacancies" came true with might and main. People were carried up by waves, tornadoes, foam.

The earring… as if he didn’t allow the waves, tornadoes and foam to treat him like that. For he was neither empty nor light. Knew professional passion. But there was nothing of an adventurer about him.

And he plowed. A lot, hard, always. Gushing with ideas, building newspapers, studios and teams.

And always working "on the ground". Not with ideologies, not with any other streams. But with people.

Therefore, his main business in the end, apparently, was the program "Wait for me." Huge work of finding people - and selecting stories that will become plots. hard built social project with half a thousand volunteers, a special search group in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, teleconferences - and a kiosk at the Kazan railway station, where a person without the Internet can come.

Photo: Sergey Kuznetsov, specially for " Novaya Gazeta»

I will also quote his interview.

from an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 2008.

Sergey Kushnerev:

A pattern that we have already discovered: for every 200-250 people in Russia there is one,- someone is looking for. …If you go into a store where there are a thousand people at the same time, then in this crowd there are about four people who are looking for, love and wait.

from an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, 2010.

Sergey Kushnerev:

Revolutions, wars, redistribution of borders, economic crisis - any social upheavals invade natural human ties ... You can write more than one doctoral dissertation about, for example, what happens in the soul of an individual and in society as a whole, when one brother suddenly finds himself behind whites, the other for the reds... Or about what awaits a person with a healthy psyche when he comes from a small town to work in a metropolis that is absolutely hostile to him...

Bsafe and predictable we have never had. And broke people, and crushed them in our recent history so that many more years of patience, care and love are needed so that the twisted consciousness of society slowly recovers, and life, at least gradually, becomes safer, more predictable, and more worthy, or something ...

According to official data, from 70 to 100 thousand people go missing in Russia every year…. Losses are almost the same as from the infamous Indian Ocean tsunami, only we have it every year. Every year an entire city disappears. More than in car accidents and plane crashes combined.

On the day of Serezha's death - February 27, 2017, on Clean Monday - 203,477 people found each other, thanks to the program and the search service for the missing "Wait for me".

2,581,721 search applications have been submitted and are waiting on the program website.

Kushnerev and his team were engaged in microsurgery of our, cut-down society with all the sabers of the 20th century. Stitching his cut vessels piece by piece. Through the capillaries of fate.

Since the spring of 2014, Sergei has not worked on television. He lived in his favorite house near Moscow. Wrote books. Cycle of books "My XX century". Therefore, for the year of the century. With building the internal connections of the century, the logic of its ups and downs. He managed to write "1900" - and publish a volume of 900 pages in a small publishing house. Without noise, dust and presentations. Worked on the second volume - "1901".

Gotta put together the scripts documentaries late 1990s. It is necessary to re-read the crazy and desperately talented Novaya Daily Gazeta of 1993-1994: there will be an introduction, three paragraphs here, a note ... The shadow of a person on the page. The imprint of his hand.

Undoubtedly: the same imprint lay on the scripts of the programs “Take a Step”, “Another Life”, “Testament of the 20th Century”, “Incredible Stories about Life”, “Wait for Me”.

We need to find an essay that he suddenly wrote for Moscow News -1995. About fishing: Seryozha has always loved her. (Like another very tired person - A.P. Chekhov). About fishing with some fancy, newfangled echo sounder, from which the fish cannot escape. The fact that this eternally victorious fishing is not worth - as it turned out - the usual. With its uncertain outcome, with the secret of the current, with the equality of fish, man and river.

The text was wise, like "The wind in the willows." And sad as an adult.

Ultimately, it was written that there is no protection from the fates.

Farewell to Sergey Kushnerev will begin on March 2 at 10.00 and will last until 11.45. This is a large ritual hall of the Central Clinical Hospital. Address: st. Marshal Timoshenko, 25.

At 12.15 departure to the church for the funeral service. It will take place in the church of John the Baptist at the Khovansky cemetery.

At 14.00 burial at the North Khovansky cemetery.

Thanks to him, another incredibly popular project appeared on Channel One - “The Last Hero”. A professional of the highest class, who was never afraid of creative experiments, who gave himself to work to the fullest. On March 8, Sergei Kushnerev would have turned 55 years old.

He returned to the screens what the whole country loved. The main brainchild of Sergei Kushnerev on television is the program “Wait for me”, one of the prototypes of which was the legendary “With all my heart” with Valentina Leontieva. A new large-scale television project re-entered every home, helped tens of thousands of people find their relatives, changed destinies, united families.

Tears of loved ones who seemed to have lost each other forever. Meetings postponed for decades that might not have happened. The sense of belonging to the fate of other people and the history of the country, subtly caught by Kushnerev, worked wonders. In each issue of the program, in front of the eyes of viewers, something happened that, probably, is called the magic of television. Only he, perhaps, knew how much work and effort this magic cost.

“I don’t even have any other words to express the deepest respect for his human qualities, for his talent,” said Galina Volchek, People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater.

In the mid-90s, Sergey Kushnerev was also one of those who restarted the iconic Vzglyad, a program that became one of the symbols of that difficult and rapidly changing time. It is interesting that Sergei Bodrov Jr. first came on the air of Vzglyad to Alexander Lyubimov as a guest. And it was Kushnerev who saw in him that person who could become not only a leader - someone who would lead others: young, energetic, ambitious.

“At first we invited him simply as a person who starred in the film“ Prisoner of the Caucasus ”, and then, when he was already there, it seemed to us that maybe this is a person who could speak on behalf of a new generation,” Sergey Kushnerev said.

By the way, it was Kushnerev who suggested Bodrov finish each program with the phrase: “Goodbye. This is just the beginning".

And for them, it seemed that everything was just beginning. They quickly became friends. And later, when another grandiose project, “The Last Hero”, was launched, the question of who would be the host was not even raised.

That's how television works. The success of programs and projects primarily goes to the presenters. Viewers often do not even know the names of authors and producers or discover them during the TEFI ceremony. Sergei Kushnerev has repeatedly received a bronze statuette from the Academy of Russian Television, and prizes at international festivals. But even in these moments, as they say, at the peak of professional recognition, it was clear that he did not strive for personal glory, but rather felt part of a large and friendly team.

“In general, it is not a reward for something that obliges - conscience, a sense of taste and obligations to relatives and friends oblige,” said Sergey Kushnerev.

He joked more than once: my profession is this - to be Karabas Barabas at the television "star factory", while remaining in the shadow of the artists I brought up. One of the seasons of the popular musical project was released under his leadership. And each Friday reporting concert became a real show, a holiday both for those who participated in its creation and for millions of viewers.

“For me, the concept of "creative producer" began with an acquaintance with Sergey Kushnerev. I came to TV in 2003 and my first projects were "star factories". The man who always thought. I have such a feeling: he thinks, he thinks, ”said Yury Aksyuta, chief producer of Channel One music and entertainment programs.

“So creative approach to business, to television, which is constantly changing. To be interesting all the time, to be relevant all the time, this, unfortunately, is given to a few, ”says Valery Meladze, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

What is the secret of Sergey Kushnerev's success? To answer this question, perhaps it is best to take a closer look at what he did. And then you can see that no matter what project he was involved in, he gave him not only all his strength, time, but his heart and soul. So it turns out that the energy given to others sometimes ends very early. Before his 55th birthday, Sergei Kushnerev did not live just two weeks.

The personal life of Sergei Kushnerov has always been interesting to users. He took an active part in the development of many domestic television projects and made an unusually large contribution to this industry.


Currently, he is remembered only with a kind word. On February 27, 2017, Sergey Kushnerov, who was the creator of the programs "The Last Hero" and "Wait for me", left us.


This was a man who always remained in the shadow of his projects, despite the fact that the program "Wait for me", without any exaggeration, changed people's lives for the better, helped to find friends and relatives, the connection with which, it seems, was forever lost .


Legendary personality Sergey Kushnerev

He was 54 years old, he left early and the situation looks wild - how many ambitious ideas were ahead. Sergei Kushnerov failed to establish his personal life.


Currently, the programs he created are extremely popular. But the question that regularly arises on the network about his death does not allow many to live.

The true cause of death of Sergei Kushnerov is a stroke, which did not allow him to create his personal life. Doctors fought for his health for a long time, but he died right on the resuscitation table.

Biography

Sergei Kushnerov was born in Moscow. It happened on March 8, 1962. Already at the age of 20, he began working at Komsomolskaya Pravda, which became the basis for gaining tremendous experience. In addition, his immediate superiors immediately understood that the young man would go far.


The fact is that Sergei Kushnerov was not an opposition to the old, he was an innovator and really offered fresh ideas, of which there seemed to be a record number in his head. Already while working at Komsomolskaya Pravda, he began to gradually change the newspaper format.


Sergey Kushnerev in his youth

He never broke into the old traditions with abrupt changes, never went against the leadership, but at the same time he managed to move towards the goal in small steps. Thus, the newspaper format has become much more dynamic and interesting.


He realized that the post-Soviet reader no longer wants to immerse himself in slow and huge stories, that they need dynamics, movement, that they need more fresh stories. It was Kushnerov who gradually began to move away from long boring essays and began to fit 4 stories at once on one page. Gradually it became the A3 format.


Sergey never sought to suppress and dominate, but sought to add to interesting ideas more firewood so that they absorb everything boring and useless.
Sergey Kushnerev at the beginning of his career

If he came across a masterpiece, he did not skimp on praise, he helped the talents to move higher and higher. Sometimes it was jokingly called the personal nursery of Sergei Kushnerov, because he personally answered for his young journalists, but also demanded a lot from them.


It was he who managed to do, it seemed, simply impossible - he ousted routine, clichés, “ticks” from newspapers and was able to make each issue a real story, bringing the newspaper as close as possible not even to a book, but rather to a reflection of reality.


Thus, while working at Komsomolskaya Pravda, Sergei Kushnerov went from an intern to responsible and high positions.
Sergey Kushnerev: gives an interview

Already in 1993, he stood at the origins of the creation of Novaya Gazeta and became almost the basis of its future success. That experience, that knowledge and that incredible diligence that Sergey Kushnerov carried through his life were a kind of engine of any processes. Then follows at least successful work in the Moscow News newspaper.


Many admirers of the talent and work of Sergei Kushnerov were interested in whether he had children or a personal life. In fact, he was a liberated person, but he was never able to create his own family. His career did not give time to rest, maybe that's why he died so early. There was no wife, no children, no personal life in Sergei Kushnerov, which for such a person was a big omission.


He was really only interested in working on television, to which he devoted most of his time. Like many celebrities, Sergey Kushnerov passed away due to heavy workload, which led to a stroke.

Coming to television

In 1994, Kushnerov began active work on television. His vast experience, knowledge of people, life, Russian and world events brought a lot of benefits.


Alexander Lyubimov did not think much then and invited Sergey to the chair of the editor-in-chief of the television program "Vzglyad". After only two years of work, he was able to become the chief editor of VID.


Sergey Kushnerev: on television
Sergey liked the work in this creative team so much that he stayed here for the whole 19 years.

It was the First Channel that he chose for himself as the basis for further development and implementation of already personal ideas. To become the owner of the TEFI awards, he was allowed to create such rating and simply interesting programs as “Wait for me”, “The Last Hero”, “Women's Look” by Oksana Pushkina.


Program "Wait for me"

It's not just about the TEFI awards in the nominations "Best Producer", "Best Screenwriter". It's not about 20 years of consistently effective work on television. The fact is that Sergei Kushnerov is described by his colleagues as a real person.


Sergei Kushnerov's television is informative television, raising topical issues and allowing us to consider these issues from all sides. This is the time when TV is watched to become smarter, to learn something new to listen to. interesting people and learn something from them.


The reality show "The Last Hero" was created on the idea of ​​Sergey Kushnerov

Speaking of Sergei outside the profession, friends note him as a sympathetic and thoughtful person. Sergey was looking for new ideas everywhere, he had to know people, study them, find something good in them - all his ideas were based on this. Surprisingly, when creating a new television, he was a pioneer, although he acted as a person with great experience.


The ability to be one step ahead became the basis for the fact that Sergey controlled everything and knew the work of each employee better than he did. There are not many such professionals, therefore the opinion of colleagues in the workshop about Sergey Kushnerov could not be otherwise - a man of which there are few.

last years of life

Sergey Kushnerov died somehow modestly and imperceptibly. This inability to brag about achievements and modesty was carried by him through his whole life. A week before his death, he was hospitalized with a stroke, was in intensive care and was in a stable serious condition.


Sergey Kushnerev received an award for his work on television

There was no opportunity to restore his body - this is possible only if, immediately after a stroke, return to normal life and force the body to patch up the resulting breakdowns.


Sergei did not have such an opportunity. A stably serious condition after a stroke will be the penultimate entry in his biography, and then - the end of history, rather even the end of an entire era.
Sergey Kushnerev: photo

Never before have the media been so “human”, because these were programs that riveted a good part of the country, made them experience and immerse themselves, find something new for themselves and make amazing discoveries.


If there is at least one more person in the media who reaches the level of Sergei Kushnerov, then you can sleep peacefully.


Sergey Kushnerev is a legendary personality on television

In fact, the main question remains open for many whether Sergey Kushnerov had a wife or a personal life. There is absolutely nothing about this on the Internet. Maybe he tried to hide from everyone, or maybe he lived his entire adult life in solitude. Of course, it is difficult for a person to find a soul mate when you are constantly working.