Dmitry Gordon

Dmitry Gordon
Born Dmitry Ilyich Gordon
(1967-10-21) October 21, 1967
Kiev, Ukraine
Occupation Journalist
Years active 1991–present
Website http://www.gordon.com.ua/
Signature

Dmitry Ilyich Gordon (Ukrainian: Дмитро Ілліч Гордон), born October 21, 1967, Kiev, is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, TV presenter, and singer. He is also the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Boulevard” (from June, 1995), later – “Gordon Boulevard”.

Biography

Dmitry was born on the 21-st of October 1967 in Kiev to a Jewish family. His father, Ilya Gordon, was a civil engineer and his mother, Mina Gordon, was an engineer-economist. Gordon started school at the age of six and finished it at 15. [1] During his school years he read a lot, was interested in the history of the Revolution, the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. He was also keen on theatre, modern music and football. When he was in the fifth grade he wrote about one hundred letters to famous people asking them to send him their photos with the signature. He got two replies: from Leonid Utyosov and Iosif Kobzon.[1]

In 1988, he graduated from Kiev Civil Engineering Institute. To tell the truth, as he recalls, all five institute years were a complete torture as this occupation was not his cup of tea.[2] In his second year he started to collaborate with the leading Kiev newspapers. During his years of study he published in the best Ukrainian newspapers such as “Vecherniy Kiev” (literally “Evening Kiev”), “Komsomolskoye Znamya” (literally “The Banner of Komsomol”), “Molodaya Ukraina” (literally “Young Ukraine”), “Sportivnaya Gazeta” (literally “Sports Newspaper”), “Molodaya Gvardiya” (literally “The Young Guard”), “Prapory Komynizmy” (literally “Banners of Communism”), and “Komsomolskaya Pravda” (literally “Komsomol Truth”). After the graduation Gordon worked for the newspapers “Vecherniy Kiev”, “Kievskiye Vedomosti” (literally “Kiev Bulletin”) and “All-Ukraine Vedomosti” (literally “All-Ukraine Bulletin”).

Since 1995, he has been editing his own newspaper, a weekly of society columns “Boulevard” (since 2005 “Gordon Boulevard”). Today in Ukraine “Gordon Boulevard” is one of the most popular newspapers with high circulation. The readers of the weekly count more than 2.5 million people. The newspaper is distributed in Russia, the USA, Israel, Spain, Italy and Germany as well.[3]

Gordon is the father of five children. The elder son Rostislav (born in 1992) is the student of Kiev Institute of International Relations.[4] The second son Dmitry (born in 1995) is the four times champion of Europe in united combat sport in youth age group. He is also a composer of instrumental music and he plays the piano.[5] Since 2012, he is a student of Berklee College of Music in Boston. Elizaveta (born in 1999) and Lev (born in 2001) are schoolchildren. In 2012 Gordon became a father of Santa. His wife is Alesia Batsman – the editor of “Shuster live”.

Career

Dmitry combines his job in the newspaper “Gordon Boulevard” with the publishing of his own books. There have been published more than 39 books up to now, including “The Heroes of Interlunation” in eight volumes. Dmitry is also the author of the TV program «Visiting Dmitry Gordon» (on Ukrainian TV since 2000). More than 500 celebrities were the heroes of the program: poets, writers, artists, directors, public figures, politicians and sportsmen. Among them we can name: Mikhail Gorbachev, Sergei Khrushchev, Mykola Amosov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Vitaly Korotich, Roman Viktiuk, Boris Berezovsky, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Nikita Mikhalkov. The interviews are frank talks with famous people. All the questions, even private ones, are answered by the guests in a detailed manner and with sensational facts. Not so long ago Dmitry said there are about 100-120 people more whom he would like to interview. He needs two or three years for that, and then after the end of this project he’ll get down to writing memoirs.[6] Besides journalism, Dmitry is passionate about modern music. He recorded about 60 songs and released six albums. He made 8 video clips with Valery Leontiev, Alexander Rosenbaum, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Natalya Mogilevskaya, Natalya Buchinskaya and solo.

Books

Discography

Video-clips

References

  1. 1 2 (Russian)Пишет и показывает Дмитрий Гордон.
  2. ↑ (Russian)Official site of Dmitry Gordon
  3. ↑ (Russian)Official site of “Gordon Boulevard”
  4. ↑ (Russian)Чьи дети учатся в КИМО. Фото.
  5. ↑ (Russian)Дмитрий Гордон: Ответ Кобзона стал для меня уроком.
  6. ↑ (Ukrainian)«Це не мої команди, у яких грають легіонери. Я розумію, навіщо вони тут»

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, February 02, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.