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Sergey Gorelikov
Sergey Gorelikov, 2013
Date of Birth:	August 29, 1979(1979-08-29) (age 40)
Place of Birth:	Tomsk, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship:	Russia, Russia
Profession:	actor, TV presenter
Career:	2003 - present time
Direction:	KVN, humor, satire
Awards:	Champion of the KVN Major League 2008 Champion of the KVN Premier League 2004, 2005 Big KiViN in gold (2008), Big KiViN in light (2009), Small KiViN in light (2007), Small KiViN in dark (2005, 2006)

Sergey Andreevich Gorelikov

(pseudonyms
Serge Gorely
,
Turbo
; born 08/29/1979) - Russian humorous actor, “resident” of the Comedy Club show (TNT), member of the KVN team “MaximuM”. Since April 2014, he has been hosting the “Don’t Sleep” program on TNT. Since September 2020, together with Marina Kravets, he has been hosting the “Russo Turisto” program on STS.

Biography

Sergei Andreevich Gorelikov was born on August 29, 1979 in the city of Tomsk. Graduated from school 53. He studied at the Lyceum, then at Tomsk Polytechnic University. In 2003 he graduated from the Thermal Power Engineering Faculty of Tomsk Polytechnic University.

KVN

According to the actor himself, he began playing in KVN at school in 1996[1]. Before the start of the 2003 season, he was invited to the KVN team "MaximuM", representing Tomsk State University.

• In 2003, together with his team, he became a finalist in the First KVN League, the winner of the Tomsk humor festival “Humorina” and the KVN Cup in Krasnoyarsk. “MaximuM” will also make its debut at the “Voting KiViN” festival as part of the so-called “block” - a non-competitive performance of beginning teams.
• In 2004, Gorelikov, together with Maximum, made his debut in the KVN Premier League and in the first season became the champion, sharing first place with Megapolis. In addition, the “maxes” (as the team members call themselves) again won at the Tomsk “Humorina”.
• In 2005, Gorelikov, as part of Maximum, took part in the 1/8 finals of the KVN Major League. The Tomsk team performed unsuccessfully and, having taken the last, fifth place, were eliminated from the 2005 Major League in the first game. Sergei Gorelikov and his team continue the season in the Premier League, where they become champions for the second year in a row. At the KVN music festival in Jurmala, MaximuM becomes the owner of the Small KiViN in the Dark. Also becomes the winner of the Governor's Cup of the Novosibirsk Region and the Krasnoyarsk Cup.
• In 2006, MaximuM reached the semi-finals of the Major League, where it took second place (only the winner of the game made it to the finals), and also again received the “Small KiViN in the Dark” at the Voting KiViN 2006 festival.
• In 2007, in the semi-finals of the Major League, Sergei Gorelikov and his team became the bronze medalist. At the Voting KiViN 2007 festival, Tomsk residents won the Small KiViN in Light
• In 2008, Sergei Gorelikov, as part of his team, first won the highest award at the Jurmala music festival, and then became the champion of the Major League.
• In 2009, “MaximuM” took part in the KVN Summer Cup, where it took third place, and also won the “Big KiViN in Light” at the “Voting KiViN 2009” festival.

In total, he played 28 games in television leagues, cups and KVN festivals:

• 12 games in the KVN Major League (seasons 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• 9 games in the KVN Premier League (seasons 2004, 2005)
• 6 games at the Voting KiViN music festival (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
• 1 game in the Summer Cup (2009).

Participation in Comedy Club

Since April 2010, Sergei Gorelikov has been a “resident” of the updated Comedy Club show. He performs in it in the image of a secular macho [2] with his own show “Foreplay”. He is also a member of the “legendary” group “USB” (United Sexy Boys), whose videos are allegedly banned from showing in Russia[3], under the pseudonym “Turbo”. Together with him, the group includes other people from the Maximum team: Andrey Shelkov (Stas), Dmitry Vyushkin (Gena), Konstantin Malasaev (Nikita) and Andrey Minin (Dyusha Metelkin) [4] [ unauthorized source? 2567 days

].

Video course from Serge Gorely

The video course by Serge Gorely is a joint project of Sergei Gorelikov and the Planet Sushi chain of Japanese restaurants. As part of the promotion, several episodes of this video show were filmed and published on YouTube, which, unlike the episodes of the video show “Foreplay,” were not broadcast on television.

Performance at KVN

Sergei Gorelikov in KVN
At the moment, Sergei is one of the popular idols of youth in the role of Serge Gorelikov, and is also a resident of the Comedy Club. The popular comedian was born in August 1979 in the city of Tomsk. After graduating from the lyceum, Sergei was able to get a job at Tomsk Polytechnic University. Choosing a department for Sergei seemed difficult. As a result of much deliberation, the choice fell on the heat and power department, which Sergei successfully completed.

The beginning of performances in KVN games began during the school period. After successfully playing roles in little-known teams, in 2003 Sergei was lucky enough to perform in the Maximum team. In the same year, the Maximum team began performing in the First League of KVN and at the Voting KiViN festival. The assembled team was not fully staffed with the main players, but in the end the team managed to qualify for the Premier League games.

A year after being accepted into the team, Sergei and his team receive a leading place among the young teams.

The very next year, playing in the Major League, the team failed, taking the worst line in the table. As a result, the team returned to play in the Premier League.

However, in 2007 the team returned to the Major League, where they were able to get a prize place. In the same year, the team took part in “Voting KiViN”. After the competition, the “Maximum” team was honored to receive a valuable award in the form of “Big KiViN in the Light.”

In total, Sergei played almost 30 games. The main roles were in the guise of alcoholics, fighters and bandits. The roles he played brought Sergei popularity, as a result of which he made his way to the big screen.

In press

Press about "Foreplay"

• “Vedomosti”
  from 09.24.10:

...the most frank show in the country...[5]

• “Private correspondent”
  , Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 09.44, Ekaterina Salnikova:

Serge Gorely’s video show “Foreplay” can bring you to a laughing hysteria with the help of very simple and even primitive moves - it’s all about the infectiousness of how the authors and we, the audience, present options for the idiocy of acquaintances and dates. This is humor that appeals to the instinctive sense of the funny.[6]

• Women's magazine "Cosmopolitan" Russia
  from 05/06/2010:

Serge Gorely, an experienced bon vivant and ladies' man from the Comedy Club, gives priceless recommendations from an experienced seducer to shy people... ... advice from Serge Gorely is one of the unique new formats within the framework of big Comedy. [7]

Press about USB

• “Vedomosti”
  from 09.24.10:

New pop idols - United Sexy Boys...[5]

• CJSC "Arguments and Facts"
  dated May 05, 10 (13:08), Vladimir Polupanov:

And the most important find in the new season, it seems to me, is the “pop group banned from showing on all federal channels” - USB (“United Sexy Boys”) - a wonderful parody of all popular musical genres in Russia.) I hope so There will be more humor in the new season of “Comedy Club”,...[8]

• CJSC Publishing House "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
  dated 10/07/2010, Pavel Sadkov:

Still in the same new Comedy Club, a deliberately crazy group USB appeared. Five imitators of all youth movements immediately sing songs that are not even too idiotic, if, of course, we compare them with modern pop music. The “idols” were not immediately identified as the guys from the Tomsk team “Maximum”. It turns out that they write the texts, stage the numbers themselves, and perform the dances themselves.[9]

Comedian biography

The comedian was born in Tomsk in 1979, after school he entered the Polytechnic University at the Faculty of Thermal Power Engineering. While still at school, I became interested in playing KVN and in 2003 was invited to the “Maximum” team from my university. Other members from this team are also well known to viewers and are now involved in other programs and series on television. In addition to his professional activities, Sergei’s personal life is interesting, especially since his Serge Gorely is positioned as a guru in seduction and flirting.

Career start

The “Maximum” team made its debut in “Voting KiViN” in 2004 and won a common prize with the “Megapolis” team as the best young team. Having entered the Premier League, two years later they gained a foothold in the KVN Major League. There they won the “Big KiViN in Light” prize - a significant KVN award. Sergei gained popularity by playing an alcoholic or a yard "gopnik". And it should be noted that this chosen role is very successful; many viewers, for example, like the series “Real Boys” with Nikolai Naumov, a local street hooligan. In 2008, the team left KVN, and in 2020, to the delight of fans, they took the stage again.

Notes

1. ↑ 12
   [hottopstars.ru/esli-by-sergej-gorelikov-uchilsya-v-shkole-my-by-ne-uvideli-ego-na-scene If Sergei Gorelikov had studied at school...]. Retrieved March 10, 2011. [www.webcitation.org/69M06GaUt Archived from the original on July 22, 2012].
2. [www.novonews.lv/index.php?mode=news&id=99552 New Comedy Club has come to Latvia]
3. [inforotor.ru/visit/3421357?url=www.protv.net.ua/23318-kakim-budet-novyj-komedi-klab.html What will the “New Comedy Club” be like]
4. [celebrities-vkontakte.rf/sergey-gorelikov Sergey Gorelikov vkontakte.](inaccessible link) [archive.is/ZioKD Archived from the original source on April 22, 2013.]
5. ↑ 12
   [vedomosti.sfo.ru/articles/?article=34360 Return of residents]
6. [www.chaskor.ru/article/epoha_vsemogushchego_miksa_17335 The era of the almighty mix. Comedy Club is still alive, but MTV is no longer there]
7. [www.cosmo.ru/in_focus/section_news_events/861066/ I came, I saw, I was charmed!]
8. [www.aif.ru/culture/article/34524 “Comedy Club” suffocated in bourgeois scenery”]
9. [kp.ru/daily/24571.3/742675/ Kaveen people have captured humor again]

Biography of Sergei Gorelikov

Sergei Gorelikov, whose personal life is so interesting to fans, was born and raised in the Siberian city of Tomsk. After school, he studied at the Polytechnic University. Received the profession of heat power engineer.

After university, Sergei was invited to play in KVN, and he accepted this offer. In KVN, everything was going quite well for Sergei, and one day he decided to conquer the capital and go to the Comedy Club. He, together with his fellow KVN players, created the now famous group “USB”.

S. Gorelikov in his youth

Another project that brought success to the young comedian is the show “Give Youth!” His friends also took part in this program, and Sergei felt “at ease” on the set. And thanks to this, I was able to open up and fall in love with the audience.

Links

• Invited	Andrey Rozhkov • Dmitry Sokolov • Alexander Pushnoy • Ivan Urgant • Valdis Pelsh • Sergey Svetlakov • Mikhail Bashkatov • Stanislav Yarushin • Ararat Keshchyan • Alexey Chumakov
  Former	Tair Mamedov • Timur Rodriguez • Max Perlov • Vladimir “Dynamite” Turchinsky † • Lyubinda Arachagu • Igor “Elvis” Meerson • Tash Sargsyan • Dmitry Khrustalev • Victor Vasiliev • Gavriil “Le Havre” Gordeev • Oleg Vereshchagin • Alexander Sas • Alexander Gubin • Sergey Immortal • Emin Fatullaev • Dmitry Tsyganov • Egor Alekseev

Career in KVN

Sergei Gorelikov is a popular comedian among young people and a resident of the Comedy Club. He was born in August 1979 in Tomsk. After graduating from the lyceum, the comedian entered Tomsk Polytechnic, the heat and power department.

Gorelikov began playing in KVN already in his school years. In 2003, Gorelikov was invited to the KVN youth team “Maximum”. In the same year, the team made its debut in the First League of KVN and at the Voting KiViN festival. The team performed in an additional lineup that did not participate in the main competition. However, these achievements allow them to take part in the games of the KVN Premier League, which is broadcast on Channel One.

Sergei Gorelikov in his youth

In 2004, Sergei Gorelikov, as part of the Maximum team, won first place in the competition of young teams, but they had to share the gold with the Megapolis team.

Games in the Major League in 2005 did not end with the same success. The team took last place and returned to the Premier League.

Sergey Gorelikov in the KVN team “Maximum”, Tomsk

In 2007, the “Maximum” team won a prize while performing in the Major League, and also took part in the “Voting KiViN” music project. At the festival, the comedian and his colleagues received the “Big KiViN in Light.” This is one of the biggest awards at this event.

Sergei Gorelikov worked as a radio presenter

In total, Sergei Gorelikov took part in 28 games of the KVN program. Very often, the comedian acted in the guise of a street hooligan or alcoholic. Thus, Sergei Gorelikov became a recognizable personality.

An excerpt characterizing Gorelikov, Sergei Andreevich

“Do you think?...” said Anna Pavlovna, wanting to say something and return to her duties as a housewife, but Pierre did the opposite of impoliteness. First, he left without listening to the words of his interlocutor; now he stopped his interlocutor with his conversation, who needed to leave him. He, bending his head and spreading his large legs, began to prove to Anna Pavlovna why he believed that the abbot’s plan was a chimera. “We’ll talk later,” Anna Pavlovna said, smiling. And, having gotten rid of the young man who did not know how to live, she returned to her duties as a housewife and continued to listen and look closely, ready to give help to the point where the conversation was weakening. Just as the owner of a spinning workshop, having seated the workers in their places, walks around the establishment, noticing the immobility or the unusual, creaking, too loud sound of the spindle, hurriedly walks, restrains it or puts it into proper motion, so Anna Pavlovna, walking around her living room, approached the silent man. or to a circle that was talking too much and with one word or movement again started a uniform, decent conversational machine. But amid these worries, a special fear for Pierre was still visible in her. She looked at him caringly while he came up to listen to what was being said around Mortemart and went to another circle where the abbot was speaking. For Pierre, who was brought up abroad, this evening of Anna Pavlovna was the first he saw in Russia. He knew that the entire intelligentsia of St. Petersburg was gathered here, and his eyes widened, like a child in a toy store. He was still afraid of missing smart conversations that he might overhear. Looking at the confident and graceful expressions of the faces gathered here, he kept expecting something especially smart. Finally, he approached Morioh. The conversation seemed interesting to him, and he stopped, waiting for an opportunity to express his thoughts, as young people like to do. Anna Pavlovna's evening was over. The spindles made noise evenly and incessantly from different sides. Apart from ma tante, near whom sat only one elderly lady with a tear-stained, thin face, somewhat alien in this brilliant society, the society was divided into three circles. In one, more masculine, the center was the abbot; in the other, young, the beautiful Princess Helen, daughter of Prince Vasily, and the pretty, rosy-cheeked, too plump for her youth, little Princess Bolkonskaya. In the third, Mortemar and Anna Pavlovna. The Viscount was a handsome young man with soft features and manners, who obviously considered himself a celebrity, but, due to his good manners, modestly allowed himself to be used by the society in which he found himself. Anna Pavlovna obviously treated her guests to it. Just as a good maître d'hotel serves as something supernaturally beautiful that piece of beef that you won't want to eat if you see it in a dirty kitchen, so this evening Anna Pavlovna served her guests first the Viscount, then the Abbot, as something supernaturally refined. In Mortemar's circle they immediately started talking about the murder of the Duke of Enghien. The Viscount said that the Duke of Enghien died from his generosity, and that there were special reasons for Bonaparte’s bitterness. - Ah! voyons. Contez nous cela, vicomte, [Tell us this, Viscount], - said Anna Pavlovna, joyfully feeling how this phrase resonated with something a la Louis XV [in the style of Louis XV], - contez nous cela, vicomte. The Viscount bowed in submission and smiled courteously. Anna Pavlovna made a circle around the Viscount and invited everyone to listen to his story. “Le vicomte a ete personnellement connu de monseigneur, [The Viscount was personally acquainted with the Duke,” Anna Pavlovna whispered to one. “Le vicomte est un parfait conteur [The Vicomte is an amazing master of storytelling," she said to the other. “Comme on voit l'homme de la bonne compagnie [How a man of good society is seen now],” she said to the third; and the Viscount was presented to society in the most elegant and favorable light, like roast beef on a hot platter, sprinkled with herbs. The Viscount was about to begin his story and smiled subtly. “Come here, chere Helene, [dear Helene],” said Anna Pavlovna to the beautiful princess, who was sitting at a distance, forming the center of another circle. Princess Helen smiled; she rose with the same unchanging smile of a completely beautiful woman with whom she entered the living room. Slightly rustling with her white ball gown, decorated with ivy and moss, and shining with the whiteness of her shoulders, the gloss of her hair and diamonds, she walked between the parted men and straight, not looking at anyone, but smiling at everyone and, as if kindly granting everyone the right to admire the beauty of her figure , full shoulders, very open, according to the fashion of that time, chest and back, and as if bringing with her the glitter of the ball, she approached Anna Pavlovna. Helen was so beautiful that not only was there not a shadow of coquetry visible in her, but, on the contrary, she seemed ashamed of her undoubted and too powerfully and victoriously effective beauty. It was as if she wanted and could not diminish the effect of her beauty. Quelle belle personne! [What a beauty!] - said everyone who saw her. As if struck by something extraordinary, the Viscount shrugged his shoulders and lowered his eyes while she sat down in front of him and illuminated him with the same unchanging smile. “Madame, je crains pour mes moyens devant un pareil auditoire, [I really fear for my abilities in front of such an audience,” he said, tilting his head with a smile. The princess leaned her open full hand on the table and did not find it necessary to say anything. She waited smiling. Throughout the story, she sat upright, occasionally looking at her full, beautiful hand, which had changed its shape from the pressure on the table, or at her even more beautiful chest, on which she was adjusting the diamond necklace; she straightened the folds of her dress several times and, when the story made an impression, looked back at Anna Pavlovna and immediately took on the same expression that was on the face of the maid of honor, and then again calmed down in a radiant smile. Following Helen, the little princess walked from the tea table. “Attendez moi, je vais prendre mon ouvrage, [Wait, I’ll take my work,” she said. - Voyons, a quoi pensez vous? - she turned to Prince Hippolyte: - apportez moi mon ridicule. [What are you thinking about? Bring me my reticule.] The princess, smiling and talking to everyone, suddenly made a rearrangement and, sitting down, recovered cheerfully. “Now I feel good,” she said and, asking me to start, got to work. Prince Hippolyte brought her a reticule, walked behind her and, moving a chair close to her, sat down next to her. Le charmant Hippolyte [Charming Hippolyte] struck with his extraordinary resemblance to his beautiful sister and even more so because, despite the resemblance, he was strikingly bad-looking. The features of his face were the same as those of his sister, but with her everything was illuminated by a cheerful, self-satisfied, youthful, unchanging smile of life and the extraordinary, antique beauty of her body; his brother, on the contrary, had the same face clouded with idiocy and invariably expressed self-confident grumpiness, and his body was thin and weak. Eyes, nose, mouth - everything seemed to shrink into one vague and boring grimace, and arms and legs always took an unnatural position. – Ce n'est pas une histoire de revenants? [This is not a ghost story?] - he said, sitting down next to the princess and hastily attaching his lorgnette to his eyes, as if without this instrument he could not begin to speak. “Mais non, mon cher, [Not at all," the surprised narrator said, shrugging his shoulders. “C’est que je deteste les histoires de revenants, [The fact is that I can’t stand ghost stories,” he said in such a tone that it was clear that he said these words, and then realized that they meant. Because of the self-confidence with which he spoke, no one could understand whether what he said was very smart or very stupid. He was in a dark green tailcoat, trousers of the color cuisse de nymphe effrayee, [thighs of a frightened nymph,] as he himself said, stockings and shoes. Vicomte [Viscount] told very nicely about the anecdote that was circulating at that time that the Duke of Enghien secretly went to Paris to meet with m lle George, [Mademoiselle Georges,] and that there he met with Bonaparte, who also enjoyed the favors of the famous actress, and so on, Having met the Duke, Napoleon accidentally fell into the fainting spell to which he was susceptible, and was in the power of the Duke, which the Duke did not take advantage of, but that Bonaparte subsequently took revenge on the Duke with death for this generosity.

“Serge and Sergei are two people with opposite personalities”

— Masha, you are a financier by profession. Are you also in charge of the family budget?

M.: - The true truth!

— How do you distribute family responsibilities?

S.: — Masha runs the house, of course, but I, for example, wash the dishes. Yes, this happens! And that's absolutely normal. At this time I am reflecting, thinking about something...

M.: - But we have been going to this for a very long time! (Laughs.)

— Sergey, in an interview with TV Program you admitted that at home you are one person, but at work you are a completely different person. Can you switch quickly?

S.: - It’s difficult. The brain works all the time. I'm constantly trying to come up with something, write a joke.

M.: - Serezha himself is generally a very cheerful and open person. At the same time, he knows how to instantly get out of character. He takes off his stage costume - and now he is a completely different person. Home, beloved, my Seryozha. Of course, many people ask me, remembering the image of Serge Gorely: “He’s a ladies’ man, right?” I always answer that Sergey is the calmest and most homely man in the world. Gorely and Gorelikov are generally two opposite people in character. Although it’s true that Seryozha is always in the process of writing jokes. It happens that he cannot sleep, thinking about work. She is always with him, in bed as well.

— Sergey, don’t you suggest your wife to star in “Foreplay”?

S.: - Masha? No! She's even embarrassed to be photographed. And I can’t even imagine her on the set.

M.: - I’m really shy about cameras. Although in real life he is a very sociable person. However, it is difficult for me to receive attention from the outside; I begin to close myself off. I almost never go to the Comedy Club filming. Besides, I have no “television ambitions.” Everything related to show business is not about me. I enjoy doing what I do. No, of course, we jokingly discussed my possible participation in the filming: they say, why not try? But this is not a serious conversation.

Comedy Club. New season From August 21 to Fridays / 21.00 (TNT)

Comedy Club specials from the “Week of High Humor” festival in Sochi from September 4 on Fridays / 21.00 (TNT)

Masha took her husband’s last name without hesitation. “Sergey is my guide!” - the girl sincerely asserts.

Private bussiness

Sergey GORELIKOV was born on August 29, 1979 in Tomsk. After graduating from the local lyceum, he entered the heat and power engineering department of Tomsk Polytechnic University. He started playing KVN at school age, and since 2003 he has been a member of the Maximum team. In April 2010, Gorelikov became a resident of the Comedy Club on TNT. The presenter of the “Foreplay” section, where, in the image of macho Serge Gorely, he talks about ways to meet girls. He is also Turbo, a member of the group USB (United Sexy Boys). Host of the project “Don’t sleep!” on TNT. In 2013, he married his longtime friend Maria.

Photo: Mikhail FROLOV. Thank you for your help in organizing the shooting of “Bar & Restaurant “Baikal”.

Career

His debut in the Maximum team took place in 2003. That year the team was announced for the season in the first KVN league, which the team successfully won. They also appeared for the first time at the major Voting KiViN festival, performing outside the competition.

The following year, the team entered the KVN Premier League, hosted by Alexander Maslyakov Jr. In the season “Maximum” became the winners, sharing the championship with another team “Megapolis”. According to the tournament regulations, the winners of the premiere automatically enter the KVN major league for the next season. True, the “Maximum” towers performed poorly in the draw and were eliminated at the very start of the season. They decided to spend the rest of it in the Maslyakov Jr. League, which they won again.

But 2008 turned out to be truly successful. That year, having successfully performed at the music. Festival in Jurmala, the guys won the highest award of the game, and then became champions of the KVN tower.

The next year the team played in the KVN summer cup, and according to the results of the game, “Maximum” took only third place. There was also the “Voting KiViN”, at which the team won the “small KiViN in light”.

After KVN, Sergei Gorelikov became a resident of the famous comedy club on TNT. With his KVN comrades, Gorelikov created the USB project as part of the comedy. He independently conducts a video section, in which he gives pickup truck lessons in a humorous manner. Since 2014, he also made his debut as a presenter in one of the entertainment programs on TNT.

Sergei Gorelikov, wife

Many of those who saw Sergei Gorelikov in his original program “Foreplay” as part of the Comedy Club show are 100% sure that he has no place in this section. After all, in the program he appears in the image of a hardened womanizer, changing girls like gloves. However, it turned out that in his personal life this cheerful guy has a completely different role - a home and family man. This is also confirmed by Sergei Gorelikov’s wife Maria.

The showman has known his future wife for more than 10 years. They are both from Tomsk. However, despite the fact that they communicated in the same company, they remained just acquaintances for a long time. The life of the young people was turned upside down by a meeting in Moscow, where Maria Melnik (maiden name) moved a few years after Sergei. Since the girl doesn’t watch TV at all, it didn’t even occur to her how her friend’s popularity had grown across the country since their breakup. After a short exchange of messages on VKontakte, Sergei Gorelikov and Maria decided to go to the cinema together. That day, for the first time in his life, the Comedy Club resident did something unusual for himself - he asked for time off from rehearsal to go on a date with his comrades. As it turned out, this sacrifice was not in vain - after living together for a couple of years, the guys decided to formalize their relationship.

Another difference between the screen Sergei Gorelikov and the real one is his romanticism. He proposed on the day of the celebration of the second anniversary of the relationship. A week ago, on his Instagram, he congratulated his now-legal wife on her 5th anniversary of her first date at the cinema. The young people got married in their native Tomsk in 2013. Of course, there is no need to talk about a solid family history, but Sergei Gorelikov and his wife have already managed to notice some of the nuances of family relationships. By the way, unlike many couples who claim the opposite, the showman and his wife are confident that after the wedding their relationship became more trusting. The couple does not have children yet. The family has already developed its own traditions (although there are not many of them yet). For example, every six months spouses go on a joint vacation, and every free weekend they go to visit numerous friends and their children, who, by the way, for the most part live in the same house with them. Since Maria Gorelikova is a financier by training, she is the one who manages household finances. Unlike other wives of famous people, Sergei Gorelikov’s wife does not strive for fame and publicity, for this reason she is an infrequent guest on the set of her husband’s programs.

Alexander Gorelik: from silver peaks to “Blue Ice”

On August 9, the outstanding figure skater and wonderful person, Alexander Yudaevich Gorelik, would have turned 70 years old. He was born on August 9, 1945.

As a 10-year-old boy, Sasha came to the skating rink of the Central Youth Sports School in Sokolniki, where he began training under the guidance of Elena Vladimirovna Vasilyeva. When he switched to pair skating, Tatyana Sharanova became his first partner. With it, he achieved some success, becoming a bronze medalist at the 1st Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1962 and a silver medalist at the 1964 USSR Championship.

International tournament "Blue Swords" (GDR). On the podium are the tournament winners Irena Müller and Hans-Georg Dahlmer (GDR), silver medalists Brigitte Wokoeck and Heinz-Ulrich Walter (GDR) and bronze medalists Tatyana Sharanova and Alexander Gorelik. 1962

In 1964, the Sharanova-Gorelik pair made their debut at the European Championships (7th place) and the World Cup (15th place). Stanislav Alekseevich Zhuk drew attention to Alexander and invited him in May 1964 to train at CSKA, where he paired him with his younger sister Tatyana, who had already achieved considerable success in the international arena together with Alexander Gavrilov.

The sports duo Zhuk - Gorelik became one of the first in the history of FC with a significant difference in the height of the partners. In the new duet, the young ambitious coach Zhuk wanted to realize his vision of figure skating - fast, exciting, replete with the most complex elements, performed easily, as if playfully.

Stanislav Zhuk and his students Tatyana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik at a training session in CSKA. 1964

Having overcome the inevitable difficulties of grinding in technique (the foundations of pair skating were laid in them by different coaches with their own methods) and characters, the Zhuk-Gorelik pair quickly reached a high level of skill and literally broke into the elite of world skating, winning the 1965 European Championships and World Championships in their debut performances. .bronze medals.

1965 European Championship

Even greater success awaited them in 1966: they not only became silver medalists at the European and European Championships, but also made the throne shake under the permanent leaders of that time, Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. Only one judge's vote separated them from the “gold” at the World Championships in Davos!

Tatiana and Alexander give autographs after their performance at the 1966 European Championships in Bratislava

It must be said that Tatyana and Alexander made up a truly magnificent couple, and high technology did not at all overshadow the artistic component of their skating, in which everything was complete and harmonious.

1965 European Championship

Alexander Gorelik was not only one of the most technical partners in the history of pair skating, but also one of the most attractive in appearance: the stately, broad-shouldered brunette was recognized as the most handsome participant in the 1966 European Championships and could have given odds to many Hollywood stars, considered the standard of male beauty!

Alexander Gorelik receives the prize as the most handsome participant of the 1966 European Championship

This is what their coach Stanislav Aleksevich Zhuk wrote about his students: “I first saw Sasha Gorelik in 1963, when he performed very successfully with his graceful partner Tatyana Sharanova. The pair looked good, but the skating style itself raised a number of objections in me. Of course, I didn’t tell anyone about them, because no one asked me at that time.

However, there was a breakdown in the fate of this couple - the athletes were disappointed with the result of their performance at the World Championships (they did not even make it into the top ten). Both partners were eager to achieve heights of excellence.

In the summer of 1964, Gorelik came to our CSKA section. Came alone. By this time, another couple that I had been leading for four years had also broken up. (Duet Tatyana Zhuk - Alexander Gavrilov. - L.M.).

1965

(...) Thus, by the fall of 1964, by the will of fate, the opportunity arose to form a duet in a new version and in a new quality. I had my own ideas about the style of the new couple, related to my experience in professional ice ballet. Performing with Nina in the Soviet ballet ice ensemble, we got a good opportunity to look at figure skating from a completely unusual side for us, athletes.

1966

Communication between partners in ballet was based not so much on figure skating technique, but on feeling, on emotion. And some achieved exceptional results in this regard... In sports there was a different proportion: technique dominated over feelings. So, the new duet is Tanya Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik. They had to bring a new style to pair skating, show a new form of a sports duet.

Alexander Gorelik driving his car. 1966

The character of these athletes was simply a treasure! Both Tanya and Sasha remained good friends with their old partners. Everyone understood that life itself simply happened so that their paths diverged. There was little time for training on artificial ice (sometimes less than two hours), and yet the guys very busily, methodically mastered fragment by fragment of the new program.

Then there was the European Championship in Moscow. The wonderful music of Tom and the even more magnificent melodies of Shostakovich sounded, and the judges with supportive smiles gave the Soviet couple scores that entitled them to bronze medals.

1965

Then there was the World Championships in Colorado Springs - and again Tanya and Sasha took 3rd place. Finally, the 1966 World Championships in Davos - a dramatic duel between two of the strongest Soviet duos challenging the title of world champions. Five judges out of nine put Olympic champions Belousova and Protopopov ahead, and four put Zhuk and Gorelik in first place. And all this in two seasons!

(...) Tanya’s new partner was a skater of rare talent. He knew how to listen to his interlocutor and understand many things between the lines. He looked at life very broadly and did not believe that his entire destiny should fit into the rectangle of an ice skating rink. He was interested in music, poetry, and theater, he sought meetings with people of different professions, and analyzed much of what he heard.” (S. Zhuk, “...and silver frost”, M., “Young Guard”, 1971).

Unfortunately, Tatiana and Alexander were forced to miss the 1967 season due to injury and a long illness of their partner. But their goal was the Olympics, and they were not going to give up. Having overcome all difficulties, the couple not only returned to the sport, but also made it clear to all competitors that their “place in the sun” remains unchanged - in close proximity to the leaders.

Olympic Games 1968

Olympic Games 1968

Having brilliantly won their silver medals at the Olympic Games and the 1968 World Cup, Zhuk and Gorelik left the sport, because Tatyana, who at that time was married to football player Albert Shesternev, wanted to become a mother, and Alexandra, alas!, did not find a worthy partner. One can only regret that such a brilliant figure skater was not able to realize all his potential in big-time sports.

Natalya Sedykh and Alexander Gorelik in the film “Blue Ice”. 1969

He began working in the sports editorial office on the radio, reporting together with Nikolai Ozerov.

In 1969, Alexander starred with Natalya Sedykh in the feature film “Blue Ice”, where he played the main role - skater Sergei Berestov.

After Tatyana Zhuk’s maternity leave, Alexander began performing with her in “Circus on Ice.” Then he switched to coaching and, in particular, was the coach of the USSR national team at the 1976 Olympic Games.

Alexander Gorelik is the coach of the CSKA school. 1973

Since 2001, for many years, Alexander Gorelik worked as a sports commentator on the Sport TV channel (Russia-2).

In 1974, he got married, and from this marriage he had a son, Anatoly, who also practiced figure skating as a child and performed together with Marina Anisina, but the sport did not captivate him as much as his famous father did in his time.

Marina Anisina and Anatoly Gorelik. Early 1980s

In 1990, Alexander Gorelik separated from his wife, like a true gentleman, leaving the apartment to her and his son, and in recent years he lived with his mother in a one-room apartment in Moscow.

Alexander Gorelik with colleague Inna Goncharenko. year 2012

But, unfortunately, on the night of September 27, 2012, Alexander Yudaevich died suddenly in the village of Tuchkovo near Moscow. We are posting here an obituary written by Nikolai Dolgopolov and published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta (federal issue No. 5897 (224).

“Sasha Gorelik is one of those who can safely be called a wonderful person. A friendly, friendly and not arrogant guy. She and Tatyana Zhuk carried out the plan of their great coach Stanislav Zhuk, who, perhaps, for the first time put figure skaters with a difference in height into a sports pair. At that time, not everyone understood and accepted the experiment, but Alexander and Tatyana won silver at the 1968 Olympic Games and more than once became prize-winners of the World and European Championships.

1966

Of course, it was impossible then to beat the luminaries Lyudmila Belousova - Oleg Protopopov, to whom Alexander and Tatyana lost at the 1966 World Championships with only one judge's vote.

Olympic Games 1968

And after leaving the sport, Sasha Gorelik did not get lost. He was a coach and worked with the national team. He became the most intelligent television commentator. He even starred in a movie, essentially playing his own role as a handsome figure skater in the film “Blue Ice.”

With Natalya Sedykh in the film “Blue Ice”. 1969

In figure skating, and not only, he knew everyone. What a pleasure it was to sit with him, a professional, on the podium, watching the competition together. He never boasted of anything, was proud of the title of Honored Master of Sports, showing off a certificate that had not been worn out at all over the decades.

The disease did not spare me. Alexander Gorelik, who turned 67 on August 9, left the ice forever.”

But he remained in the grateful memory of those who saw the performances of the wonderful duet Tatyana Zhuk and Alexander Gorelik.