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SCHEME AND RULES OF WORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION KVN LEAGUES

TELEVISION LEAGUES MC KVN

Major League - the main league of the International Union of KVN. Air on Channel One.
Editors: Dmitry Shpenkov, Mikhail Marfin, Evgeny Donskikh.

Premier League - a television league that opens up new faces (teams) for the Major League. Air on Channel One.
Editors: Mikhail Gulikov, Valery Ravdin, Vladimir Kostur (intern), Evgeny Donskikh.

International league - held in Minsk, Belarus. Air on the TV channels "STV" and "RTR Belarus".
Editors: Leonid Kuprido, Yuri Kruchenok, Alexander Komarovsky (trainee).

First league - held in Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan. Air on TV channel "TNV".
Editors: Vladimir Tararykin, Dmitry Bushuev. League curators: Mikhail Marfin, Evgeny Donskikh.

The composition of the television leagues is formed according to the results of the International Festival of KVN Teams in the city of Sochi from the teams that passed the second round of the festival. The decision on the distribution of teams to these leagues is approved by the president of the MC of KVN Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov.

CENTRAL LEAGUES MC KVN

1. Central League of Moscow and Moscow Region, Moscow.
Editors: Evgeny Donskikh, Oleg Valentsov, Vladimir Kostur (intern).
2. Central Krasnodar League,krasnodar - Anapa.
Editors: Mikhail Gulikov, Ilham Rysaev.
3. Central League "Asia",krasnoyarsk.
Editors: Dmitry Shpenkov, Valery Ravdin.
4. Central Southwest League,kursk.
Editors: Vladimir Tararykin, Ivan Kulakov.
5. Central League "Volga region",ufa - Cheboksary - Togliatti - Kazan.
Editors: Arkady Dyachenko, Mikhail Stognienko.
6. Central League "Start",voronezh.
Editors: Leonid Morgunov, Mikhail Maslennikov.
7. Central Ural League,chelyabinsk.
Editors: Artem Skok, Ilham Rysaev, curator - Mikhail Gulikov.
8. Central Pacific League,khabarovsk.

Editors: Vitaly Kolomytsev, Evgeny Romantsov.

The central leagues are the main bases for training teams for the MC KVN television leagues.

The editors of the Central Leagues are appointed by the President of the MC KVN Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov.

TTO "AMiK" and the editors of the Major League are in close contact with the directors and editors of the Central Leagues.

The team's getting into the Central League is a recognition of the team's merits, its level and indicates that the team is seriously engaged in KVN and in the future, already next year after the Central League, can claim to be on Channel One.

The following teams have the right to play in the central leagues:
1. Those who received the status of "2nd round" and "increased rating" at the International festival of KVN teams "KiViN" in the city of Sochi.
2. Other teams in the amount of 20% of the total number of participants in the league season (including teams that did not come to the international festival of KVN teams "KiViN" in Sochi) at the discretion of the league editors.

One team in one season can NOT play in parallel in two Central Leagues.

If the team is eliminated from the TV league season, it can continue the season in the Central League of MC KVN in agreement with the management and editors of the league.
In the first stage (1/8) of the Central League season, no more than 24 teams can play.

The Central League does NOT have the right to recruit teams in the 1/2 finals and finals that have dropped out of the TV league season, as well as through additional games and cups.

If a team does not qualify for the season of this league according to the results of the qualifying Festival of the Central League, it is recommended to apply to the Official League.
A team has the right to play in the same season in the Central League and in the Official League.

At the International Festival of KVN Teams "KiViN" in the city of Sochi, the participants of television and central leagues perform for 4.30 minutes, while the teams of the Premier League and the Major League, without fail, perform on the first day of the first round, and the champion teams of the First League, International leagues and Central Leagues can wedge into the order of the first round performances at any convenient moment, notifying the Organizing Committee of the Festival for 5 teams.

OFFICIAL LEAGUES MC KVN

1. League "Adygea", Republic of Adygea.
2. League "Armavir", Armavir.
3. Azerbaijan League, Baku.
4. League "Altai", Barnaul.
5. Slobozhansk League MC KVN, Belgorod.
6. League "Ala-Too", Bishkek.
7. Bryukhovetskaya League, Art. Bryukhovetskaya.
8. Bryansk League, Bryansk.
9. Primorskaya League, Vladivostok.
10. League "KVN-Alania", Vladikavkaz.
11. "Vladimirskaya Rus", Vladimir.
12. Voronezh League, Voronezh.
13. "League of Small Towns", Vyshny Volochek.
14. League "KVN. BEL ", Gomel.
15. League "Georgia", Georgia.
16. League "Sverdlovsk", Yekaterinburg.
17. League "Republic", Kazan.
18. League "West of Russia", Kaliningrad.
19. League "Kuzbass", Kemerovo.
20. League "Vyatka", Kirov.
21. League "Moldova", Chisinau.
22. "Moscow Region" League, Korolev.
23. League "KVN on the Yenisei", Krasnoyarsk.
24. Crimean League, Republic of Crimea.
25. "League of the Nightingale Land", Kursk.
26. University League, Lipetsk.
27. Moscow Student League, Moscow.
28. Murmansk League, Murmansk.
29. League "Nizhny Novgorod", Nizhny Novgorod.
30. League "Black Sea", Novorossiysk.
31. League "Siberia-NEKST", Novosibirsk.
32. League "Siberia", Novosibirsk.
33. Northern League, Nyagan.
34. Omsk League, Omsk.
35. Orenburg League, Orenburg.
36. League "Irtysh", Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
37. League "SURA", Penza.
38. League "Prikamye", Perm.
39. League "Riga", Riga, Latvia.
40. Don League, Rostov-on-Don.
41. Ryazan League, Ryazan.
42. Arctic League "REAL", Salekhard.
43. League "Samara", Samara.
44. League "Baltika", St. Petersburg.
45. Neva League, St. Petersburg.
46. \u200b\u200bSevastopol League, Sevastopol.
47. League "KVN in Smolensk", Smolensk.
48. League "CAUCASUS", Stavropol.
49. KVN Youth League of the South of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Sterlitamak.
50. League "Northern Landing Force", Surgut.
51. League "Upper Volga", Tver.
52. League "Tomsk", Tomsk.
53. Tula League, Tula.
54. League "ZAPSIB", Tyumen.
55. League "Ufa", Ufa.
56. Vostok UA, Kharkov.
57. League "Capital", Cheboksary.
58. Transbaikal League, Chita.
59. League "KVN on the Volga", Engels.
60. Yaroslavl League, Yaroslavl.

The main goal of the Official Leagues is to create and develop new KVN teams in their region.

The editors of the Official Leagues are approved by the management of TTO "AMIK".

Teams are eligible to play in the official leagues:
1. From their region, who participated in the International Festival of KVN Teams "KiViN" in Sochi and did not receive any status.
2. From their region who did not take part in the International Festival of KVN Teams "KiViN" in Sochi.
3. Teams from any regions that participated in the International Festival of KVN Teams "KiViN" in Sochi and did not receive any status, or did not participate in the International Festival of KVN Teams "KiViN-2019", but in an amount not exceeding 30% of the total number of teams ...

If a team is eliminated from the Central League season, it can continue the season in the Official League from a stage up to the quarter-finals inclusively, in agreement with the management and the editors of the league.

The official league does NOT have the right to recruit teams to the 1/2 finals and finals that have been eliminated from the season of the central and television leagues, as well as by holding additional games and cups.

Teams not participating in the Central and Television Leagues are entitled to play in several Official Leagues in the same season.

At the International Festival of KVN Teams "KiViN" in Sochi, participants in official leagues perform 3.30 minutes.
Teams that did not take part in the MC KVN leagues perform 3.00 minutes. on the first day of the first round.

SPECIAL STATUS LEAGUES

1. Television All-Russian Junior League KVN, Moscow - Anapa.
2. League of power structures "Podyom", Moscow - Cheboksary.
3. "OWN League", Tikhvin.

In connection with the increasing incidence of controversial copyright issues, including the use of the same reprise, songs, staging numbers in different leagues of MC KVN by different teams, President of MC KVN Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov signed on January 30, 2002 “ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT MC KVN ON THE PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHT ”. At the Festival "KiViN-2003" amendments to the existing Decree were adopted (clause 1.3 - in full and clause 2.2 - partially)

Full text of the Decree:

1. ABOUT THE REPEATED USE OF REPRISE, RUNNING NUMBERS, SONGS.

A reprise (staging number, song), once used by the original team in the official MC KVN League, cannot be used in other MC KVN TO “AMiK” leagues, with the exception of two cases:

1.1. If this reprise (production number, song) is reused by the original team in case of its transfer to another League of MC KVN (TO “AMiK”), including the Higher League of KVN.

1.2. If a team of the Interregional League starts to play in the Higher League of KVN, it can use the material of the teams of its CITY, but only on condition of reaching an agreement with the specific teams of its city. Note: at present, this clause of the Decree applies to 2 more television Leagues: the Premier League (Moscow) and the Higher Ukrainian League (Kiev).

1.3. Formally, the defense of KVN material is the reproduction of the latter by the team at the game of the Central and Interregional KVN League.

Note. Repetition of the material by teams from the same city playing in different Interregional Leagues of MC KVN is prohibited!

2. CONTROL OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS ORDER.

In order to fulfill this Decree, the heads and editors of the Interregional Leagues of the MC KVN are obliged:

2.1. To control cases of reuse of materials and to report on facts of violation of the Presidential Decree of MC KVN to “AMiK” TO.

2.2. After each game, send to the official website of KVN amik.ru (along with the report, reportage) FULL TEXTS of the teams' performances in their league, regardless of whether the team wants to protect the material or not. The materials will be published on the amik.ru website and will be considered protected from that moment on.

Note. Teams MUST provide the League Editor with the FULL TEXTS of their performances.

3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ORDER.

For teams that violate this Decree, administrative measures will be applied up to their exclusion from the playing composition of the Interregional Leagues, including the Higher League of KVN. Also, the offending team may be denied registration for the next winter Festival.

4. SCOPE OF THIS ORDER.

This Decree applies only to the teams of the official Interregional Leagues of KVN TO “AMiK” (the list is attached). Cases of official protests from teams playing in Leagues that are not accountable to “AMiK” TO will be considered separately. Informal complaints from fans are not accepted.

5. DURATION OF THIS ORDER.

This Decree came into force on January 30, 2002 and is mandatory for all interregional leagues of MC KVN, which are structural subdivisions of TO “AMiK”, up to the Higher League of KVN. Amendments to the Decree are effective from February 1, 2003.

PRESIDENT MC KVN
A. V. MASLYAKOV

The decree was signed in Sochi
at the KiViN-2002 Festival.
Amendments to clauses 1.3 and 2.2 signed
at the Festival "KiViN-2003".

ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF MC KVN ON THE PROHIBITION OF PLUS PHONOGRAMS.

“Starting from the semifinal games of the KVN-2001 season in the Higher League of KVN, it is prohibited to use phonograms like“ plus ”and“ half-plus ”. The exceptions are: the performance of the team in the genre of "synchrobuffonade" and the recording of the general final song of the programs (Festival in Sochi, Jurmala, etc.).

PRESIDENT MC KVN
A. V. MASLYAKOV

The decree was signed in Jurmala
at the Music Festival
"Voting KiViN-2001".

ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF MC KVN "ON PARTICIPATION IN NECAVENOVSKY TELEVISION PROJECTS".

1. KVN teams playing in the official leagues of MC KVN, in the event of inviting their actors to non-KVN television projects of any level, must inform the leadership of their league and TTO "AMiK". In each case, an individual decision will be made.

2. With a positive decision on the participation of the KVN team actors in non-KVN television projects of any level, a complete restriction is introduced on the use of the team's materials in these projects, voiced in the official leagues of the MC KVN.

In case of violation of any of these points, the team will be sanctioned up to disqualification.

PRESIDENT MC KVN
A.V. MASLYAKOV

EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS FROM "POSIDELOK" WITH THE PRESIDENT OF MC KVN

In case of relegation from the league, the teams are allowed to move and play out the season in the league with a lower status, but only at stages not lower than the quarterfinals. The team will not be encouraged to play in several official leagues at the same time in a season.

SEATING 01/22/2013

First - about what to talk about, what worried the whole season. Previously, we had one "enemy" - Evgeny Vaganych, who almost single-handedly was the culprit of the fact that the jokes of KVNschikov turned out to be on other lips.

The interpenetration of jokes from one team to another has not yet become the norm, but has already gone beyond the limits of chance. Here we must blame everyone - both the team and the editors. Somehow, all this translates into an unclean story.

A. Maslyakov: I do not count on applause, but I would like to announce the punishment for these borrowings.
1. The team starts the game with a negative asset.
2. A team will be disqualified from any stage in any league.
3. If the league in which a team with someone else's material is seen is television, then the audience is informed that the team has been punished and for what.
4. There will be no exceptions - everyone from beginners to Club champions falls under these rules.

About inevitable material coincidences: such cases will be dealt with separately. No claims will be made against the teams.

Leonid Kuprido: The decree of the president of the MC KVN is not a constitution, if various nuances emerge and arise, we will refine it.

AVM: There used to be a lot of jokes in the newspapers. We talked with the editors of the media - now some at least write whose joke has been published. We do what we can.

L. Cuprido: Each team playing in the league is obliged to pump its material in the search engine. Some teams are too lazy to do this.

A.V.M .: Another problem is that editors are too lazy to defend materials and send reports about games. "Shooting" will be this season. I would not want them to be, but they will.

If teams are from the same city, can they "shine" jokes in different leagues?
- No. The only exception is when the city team plays in the teleleague. Then she can take jokes from other teams.
A.V.M .: although it is also wrong when the team collects jokes from the area.
A. Chivurin: The only exception is the city. Not an area. We don't steal from the Martians.
M. Gulikov: Judging by the performance of many teams, we are stealing from the Martians!

Do you plan to protect the material of unofficial leagues on the site?
- No. The system will become entangled in itself. But so that there are no such options - guys, write yourself! And there won't be any problems.

SEATING 01/22/2010

Conditions under which the league can become an interregional Amikovskaya league.
- ... Preparation for this takes place in several stages. First. We must understand that this city has not only creative traditions, but also there is support from the administration. The league has a sponsor, this league can exist at a certain level. The second condition is that the League must agree with the editor. Because the main thing in our leagues is the confidence that the league does not just work, the league prepares and trains teams. Therefore, the presence of an editor recommended by the TTO AMiK is obligatory. And the third is geography. That is, we must understand that the Amikov League does not exist on a separate land or sea area. If the border areas, and there are 4 leagues, then no one needs it.

SEATING 01/22/2009

A.V. Maslyakov announced an addition to the Decree of the President of the MC KVN on copyright protection. It obliges all teams playing in the official leagues to check their own copyright material for the possibility of replay through the base of the amik.ru site. From now on, each team will be personally responsible for repeating the material. Potential penalties range from penalty points to team disqualification.

SEATING 12.02.2005

Do unofficial KVN leagues have the right to release KVN games on local channels?
- ... No.

08.02.2012 - 15:09

Everyone knows that we cannot live without humor. On television, this truth was realized long ago, and every year more and more programs and series of this direction appear. Unfortunately, quantity does not always translate into quality, but there is a program that has kept its mark for many years and pleases us with not just funny, but really witty and intellectual jokes. It will not be difficult to guess what kind of transmission it is. Of course, this is KVN!

The beginning of time

This game has existed for many years and is so popular that the International Day of KVN, which, at the suggestion of the club president Alexander Maslyakov, has been celebrated since 2001, does not need official approval. November 8 was chosen as the date of the holiday - the day when in 1961 the first game of the Cheerful and Resourceful Club took place.

The club did not emerge from scratch: four years before the first game, a program appeared that became the prototype of today's KVN. In 1957, the program "An Evening of Funny Questions" was broadcast, modeled on the Czech quiz "Guess, Guess, Fortune Teller".

The first script for it was written by Mikhail Yakovlev and Andrey Donatov. There were no teams at that time - in the studio, and on the air, they asked questions, and the audience answered, and the wittier the better. This was the first program where the audience participated on an equal basis with the professionals. The success was overwhelming.

In the first edition, Nikita Bogoslovsky and Margarita Lifanova became the presenters, and from the second department their place was taken by Albert Axelrod and Mark Rozovsky, who were still students at that time. The audience was summoned to the stage using various techniques, for example, the presenter launched a parachute into the hall and the lucky one who caught him appeared on the stage.

The program involved funny rallies, which resulted in the winner. In the first program, the task was to bring the seventh volume of Jack London, a potted ficus and a turtle to the studio. Not everyone has such a set at home, so there were not many winners (twenty people for three prepared gifts), but in the third gear there was a more serious misfire ...

Following the popular wisdom “Prepare the cart in winter, and the sled in summer”, it was decided to invite the audience to come to the studio in sheepskin coat and felt boots. But in our area it is too easy even in summer, so to complicate the task, it was necessary to find also the issue of the newspaper dated December 31 of the previous year. But this "restrictive" task was forgotten on the air ...

At first, everyone had fun: the most agile spectators in winter clothes began to burst into the studio, along the streets on a warm September day on all types of transport and on foot people in fur coats and felt boots hurried to the building of Moscow State University. But soon the crush at the entrance reached catastrophic proportions and there was no laughing matter: the people who broke into the studio turned into an uncontrollable crowd, the scenery flew down, the broadcast had to be interrupted ... Thousands of television screens showed the screensaver "Break for technical reasons."

Actually, in case of a breakdown of the live broadcast, a backup feature film was prepared, but then there was one behind-the-scenes circumstance. The young man in charge of the film asked the program director Ksenia Marinina for a date and took with him the keys to the safe where the backup tapes were kept. So it was impossible to broadcast the prepared film. Of course, there was a scandal, of course, the program was closed, but fortunately, the break "for technical reasons" lasted only four years.

Mind football

The new program edited by Elena Galperina, who suggested at her own peril and risk to revive the spirit of "Evening of Merry Questions", was called KVN, which, in addition to the well-known decoding, was also the brand of the KVN-49 TV. First, the program was hosted by Svetlana Zhiltsova and Albert Axelrod, who was eventually replaced by Alexander Maslyakov. Soon he became the only presenter who has been and remains the face of the program for many years.

On the first game, which took place on November 8, 1961, two teams were invited - InYaz and IISS. Each team had 11 people and 2 spare. The participants went on stage to a football march. At first, KVN was a quiz, where without preparation it was necessary to answer a number of special questions, preferably correctly, but also with humor. Most of the program was impromptu, only the topic of homework was known in advance, which also did not appear immediately. Gradually, the set of competitions expanded, more and more jokes appeared, which quickly became popular.

The creators of the program recall with pleasure various episodes, for example, a fan contest, when it was required to dance in support of their team. And from one team there is a wonderful dancer, and their rivals have no one to put up. Suddenly, a red-haired guy enters the stage and begins to dance without any sense of rhythm. It was already funny in itself, but when the question of the presenter: “Where did you study?”, The redhead answered “I am a nugget,” the audience could not straighten up from laughter.

The popularity of the program grew, and with it the popularity of educational institutions, whose teams took part in KVN, grew. And this opinion was supported not only by students, but also by the teaching staff. After the victory of the Phystech team, Kapitsa Sr. said: "You know, we have a lot of good things at the institute, but the most important thing is that we won in KVN, we became KVN champions!"

A little about censorship

Of course, the more and more jokes in the program could not remain neutral. The teams were increasingly ironic about Soviet reality and ideology. And it was these jokes that were the most popular. Therefore, after a while, the program began to be broadcast on TV screens: the “incorrect” jokes were cut out, censorship intensified, and then the KGB became interested in the program.

The texts began to be carefully examined, the captains were summoned to the authorities, it was impossible to go on stage with a beard - a mockery of Lenin or Marx, about Jews - not possible, with a lisp - not ...

There were ill-wishers in the team itself: the head of the central television, Sergei Lapin, had long wanted to close KVN. But for two years he did not close, but in every possible way discredited the program itself and its participants. The contests, according to Guzman, took on the character of “who will spit further” and “who will grunt louder,” and then a wave of rumors about KVN people who send diamonds to Israel rolled around. Soon the program was closed again.

But the spirit of KVN penetrated deeply. Before the closing of the program, they played in almost every university, in every school, almost by courtyard teams. It is not easy to destroy such popular love even with the most skillful methods. More and more often, Lapin, as a member of the Supreme Soviet, voters began to ask questions about the fate of their favorite program.

3-4 years after the closure, Bella Sergeeva, the former director of the program, received an offer to start airing KVN again. Sergeeva replied to this proposal: “I will agree, only if they return Gyulbekyan, they will give me Maslyakov and Zhiltsova, but I cannot live without them”. “Lapin asks very much,” Yuri Zamyslov tried to persuade Bella, but the director was relentless: “Let him at least kneel down”. Lapin did not kneel, the composition of the creative team was not restored, and therefore the question of the revival of KVN was postponed for many years.

With the beginning of perestroika, it became possible to restart the transmission. It was planned to create a new program under the old guise, in which everything should be new. However, the "cool" innovations did not last longer than the third season. Only the new song of the Club "Again in our hall ...", written by V.Ya.Shainsky on the verses of B.A.Salibov, took root, and the rest of the development of KVN went in an evolutionary way.

It was not so easy to start all over again: traditions were interrupted, and in the mid-80s no one knew how to play KVN. But the new teams that applied for participation had a great desire, a great sense of humor and a willingness to work. The first game of the updated KVN between the teams of the Moscow and Voronezh Engineering and Construction Institutes was aired on May 25, 1986 and since then continues to delight with new jokes and helps us live.

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The first humorous programs on Soviet television began to appear already in the 1950s. The prototype of KVN was the program "Evening of Merry Questions", organized by journalist Sergei Muratov on the model of the Czech program "Guess, Guess, Fortune Teller". In the struggle for prizes, TV viewers had to answer the questions of the presenters with humor - one might say it was the first "interactive" in the domestic "zomboyaschik". The program was broadcast live (again, an unheard-of thing for those years), but its age was short-lived: everything broke down in an unexpected way. On the third program, broadcast in the summer, a prize was promised to everyone who came to the studio in a fur coat, hat and felt boots and with a newspaper on December 31 last year. But the host of the program, composer Nikita Bogoslovsky, absentmindedly forgot to mention the newspaper, and therefore crowds of people came to the studio and burst into the studio, crushing the police officers on duty at the entrance. The broadcast of this "assault" was immediately stopped, and the broadcast was closed by a closed resolution of the CPSU Central Committee itself.

Only four years later, Sergei Muratov, the creator of "Evening of Funny Questions", managed to achieve the release of a new program - the very same KVN in the format of a competition between two student teams. The first KVN host was Albert Axelrod, who later became both a resuscitator and a theater and television director. In 1964, together with Muratov, he left the program and since then Alexander Maslyakov became the host, in those years he was a student at MIIT.

Of course, even in the "thaw" 1960s it was impossible to joke about either the top officials of the party and the state, or about the communist ideology, but completely do without irony over certain manifestations of Soviet reality - for example, the same eternal deficit and unobtrusive service all it did not work out anyway, and therefore the censorship press on KVN only intensified from year to year. At some point, the programs began to be broadcast not in live broadcast, but in the recording and dubious from an ideological point of view, jokes were cut out. Students were even forced to shave so that having a beard would not create unnecessary allusions to Karl Marx or Fidel Castro. But even in castrated form, the program continued to irritate the then head of Soviet television, the famous reactionary Sergei Lapin and the all-powerful KGB. In the end, in 1971, KVN was simply closed for 15 years - until 1986, when the winds of change again blew over the country.

My others, who remembers from you what a real KVN is? Remember at least how the abbreviation stands? Quite right, "the club of the cheerful and resourceful" ...

Initially, they were resourceful. Competition of student teams, hone their sense of humor, as they would say now, on-line. On the stage of student culture houses and on live television.

By the way, the abbreviation is from television. At the dawn of the television era, televisions were named like airplanes (ILYUSHIN-62, TUPOLEV-154), after the names of the designers. The first TV in the USSR, KVN-49, was created in 1949 by the Leningrad designers Kenigson, Varshavsky, Nikolaevsky. The people were honored to decipher the name as follows: bought, turned on, does not work. Which is not surprising: they collected it no longer in the city of Petra, but in the homeland of the guardsmen - in Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda.

Some of my friends still remember this thing (it was produced until 1962). In any case, when I first brought Andrei Bilzho to the Petrovich club and she saw a KVN-49 TV set there (with an attached glycerin lens to enlarge the screen), the poetess remembered that in her childhood she also had one like this.

So, the student KVN just appeared when in every (or far from every - they went to visit "TV"!) The house was KVN-49. The student KVN appeared in 1961. There was no preliminary recording of student meetings. VCRs, even studio ones, remained an unaffordable luxury. KVN was a vivid show of live broadcast, filled with impromptu, lively words and sparkling humor. However, this kind of competition as "homework" was also present.

I don't know if they wrote satirists specifically for KVN or if students pulled out quotes, but Grigory Gorin's famous phrase "the piano in the bushes" went to the people precisely from the stage of the Television Theater on Zhuravlev Square (there was no trace of Ostankin yet). By the way, the Television Theater is the former MELZ House of Culture (the Moscow Electric Lamp Plant, at the Electrozavodskaya station, of course). If I am not mistaken, the phrase about "the piano in the bushes" sounded in the homework assignment of the Gorky KVN team, from the finale of the 1965/66 season.

With the sunset of the Khrushchev thaw, the decline of the KVN era began. Satire and free-thinking were no longer in honor. The programs were pre-recorded, then shredded, and such elements of the competition as "greetings to the teams", "homework" began to undergo strict preliminary censorship.

An era of stagnation began, into which KVN no longer fit. The last (before the funeral of KVN) was the final of 1971/72. It somehow happened that a team of Odessa Jews who had not yet left (which is not surprising) and a team of Bashkirs (which was quite surprising) made their way to the final that year. Therefore, the result of the final was predetermined in advance - the citizens of Odessa (the team of the Odessa Institute of National Economy) defeated the Ufa team (the team of the Bashkir University) with a crushing score ...

In 1972, KVN was officially closed throughout the country by a special closed resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU. I remember that the father of my classmate in the journalism faculty of Moscow State University, Oski Halperin, who headed a regional journalistic organization and read not only the Pravda newspaper, told me in the fall of 1972 about this:

Today, KVN was finally buried between the lines in Pravda!

KVN died long and painfully, in convulsions, coming to life only once a year, on April 1. It was on this day that the participants of the last final held their "Humorins": the Odessa "Humorina" and the one where students of Ufa universities competed, fragments of the Ufa team ...

Does the current show business called KVN have anything to do with the competition of student teams of the sixties? Perhaps nothing connects, except that Maslyakov ... True, from the Odessa team, which had been in a lethargic sleep for many years (the pupated "Humorina"), then a team of Odessa gentlemen hatched, but where are the gentlemen now and where is KVN?

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Music: "On the appointed day, at the appointed hour, we are glad to see you again ..."

On AMiK, I did not find information anywhere about which teams were the champions of that very first television KVN, covered by a closed resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1972. Having climbed through my archives, I post this information here. The seasons were then held according to the "autumn-spring" system, in fact, in the same way as the school year.

KVN Champions:

1961/1962 - Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISS)

1962/1963 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

1963/1964 - Moscow Mining Institute (MGI)

1964/1965 - KVN team in Fryazino (Moscow region)

1965/1966 - KVN team, Gorky

1966/1967 - KVN teams in Odessa and Moscow Medical Institute

1967/1968 - KVN team in Baku

1968/1969 - Riga Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers (RKIIGA)

1969/1970 - KVN team in Baku

1970/1971 - Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (BPI)

1971/1972 - Odessa Institute of National Economy (OINKh)

I would be very grateful to everyone who will inform you which KVN teams played in these 11 finals.