Boris Notkin: photo and the beginning of the journey
There is no information in the personal file about the childhood of the famous figure. The only thing that is mentioned is that little Boris started playing tennis. This sport has become more than a hobby for the TV presenter. He played tennis until the end of his life.
When the future popular journalist completed his secondary education, he decided to apply to the Institute of Foreign Languages. Today, this educational institution has been renamed Moscow State Linguistic University. Notkin Boris Isaevich received his diploma after studying in 1966 and began working as a teacher at Moscow State University.
Death
On November 11, the media reported that TV presenter Boris Notkin had been found dead.
. Journalists from the NTV channel were among the first to talk about what happened. Paramedics and police arrived at the scene. According to preliminary information, the cause of the journalist's death was a shot in the head.
Notkin's lifeless body was found by his wife. Next to the man’s body was a note in which the presenter stated his unwillingness to live with a serious cancer disease. According to Boris, death is deliverance from illness, torment and terrible pain that tormented the journalist for a long time.
Boris Notkin died in 2020
Notkin heard a terrible diagnosis called “cancer” even when it was impossible to do anything. Doctors said that Boris has stage 4 cancer. Doctors could maintain the patient’s condition, but a final recovery should not be expected.
The statement that journalist Boris Notkin had died spread across the Internet shortly after the news of his death.
satirist Mikhail Zadornov. The TV presenter's funeral took place on November 16, 2020. The Russian Television Academy Foundation announced shortly before that Notkin’s burial would take place at Troekurovskoye Cemetery.
Carier start
At the University, Notkin defended his dissertation when he was thirty years old. The topic was American historiography. After this, Boris did not want to move to another place and believed that he needed to stay at the institute and teach psycholinguistics.
Boris Notkin was fluent in English, and therefore he was asked to help Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk on the set. Then they filmed the film “Waterloo”. Boris Isaevich helped translate the text by composer Nino Rota.
In 1989, Notkin was in the USA. At that time he taught at one of the universities in the country. The employees considered him an excellent simultaneous interpreter. It is therefore not surprising that when the presenter returned to Moscow, US President Ronald Reagan asked for help with some translations at meetings.
Television and journalism
In 1989, Notkin was in the United States. Here the man gave lectures at one of the country’s universities. Colleagues called Boris Isaevich the best simultaneous interpreter. Therefore, it is not surprising that Notkin helped with the translation for US President Ronald Reagan when the politician came to Moscow.
Boris Notkin and Ronald Reagan
Boris Notkin's journalistic career began with publication in Literaturnaya Gazeta. This important event took place in 1989. The article was about the low level of effectiveness of medical propaganda in the USSR. The creators of the “Good Evening, Moscow” program liked Boris Isaevich’s thoughts. Notkin received a guest invitation. A week passed, and Boris again received an offer, but for a new job. Notkin took the place of TV presenter in this program.
Boris Isaevich worked at the Moscow TV channel for 5 years. In parallel with this, Notkin worked at MTK in the “Facing the City” program. The journalist was present here until 1997. During this time period, the presenter creates his own TV show called “Boris Notkin Invites.” The program was broadcast on MTK.
TV presenter Boris Notkin
In 1997, the TV Center channel was created. This is how Boris Notkin ended up here. The owners of the organization allowed the journalist to create his own program, which Boris Isaevich called “Boris Notkin Gallery.”
Two years later we rebranded and changed the name of the program to “Grani”. But a year passed, and the creator returned “Boris Notkin Invites” to the screens. Viewers enjoyed the TV presenter’s thoughts until March 2020, after which the project was closed. A year before, Boris Isaevich expressed the opinion that television had not changed for the better.
Journalist Boris Notkin
Twice Notkin was nominated for the TEFI television award. In 2007, in a solemn ceremony, Boris Isaevich was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. This award was given to Notkin for his contribution to the development of television broadcasting. After 4 years, the journalist received the Order of Friendship.
Over the past 2 years, Boris Isaevich Notkin disappeared from television screens, but remained on the pages of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The journalist regularly published articles in the “Free Topic” section.
Peak of creative activity
Boris Notkin becomes a journalist after publishing in Literaturnaya Gazeta. The column in the newspaper appeared in 1989. Its topic was devoted to medical propaganda in the USSR.
The authors of the “Good Evening, Moscow” program liked the reasoning on this matter. After some time, the author of the article was invited to take part in a television show. A week later, Boris again received an invitation to come participate in the program, but as a new employee. In this program, Boris Notkin took the place of the previous presenter.
Boris Isaevich worked in this position for five whole years. Boris Notkin’s program “Facing the City” served him as a workplace until 1997. Whenever he had free time, he devoted it to his own project. And very soon, Boris’s program “Boris Notkin Invites” was released.
In 1997, a new TV channel “TV-Center” was opened. After this news, Boris contacted the project administration and expressed a desire to work with them. The organizers agreed and allowed the presenter to create his own program. He called it “Boris Notkin Gallery”. Two years later, the creators decided to change the name of the program to “Grani”. After some time, the organizers made a different decision: they returned the program “Boris Notkin Invites” to the TV channel.
Boris Notkin: “I’m leaving this life voluntarily”
The famous TV presenter Boris Notkin has passed away: the body of the 75-year-old journalist was discovered in his house in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. An investigative team is working on the spot, the main version is suicide.
According to preliminary data, Boris Isaevich suffered from cancer. A suicide note was allegedly found at the scene, where, in particular, he said: “I am leaving this life voluntarily,” because I am “tired of the torment.”
Popular actors, politicians, athletes, and statesmen came to visit the journalist for an interview on his author’s program “Boris Notkin Invites” on the TV Center channel. The last episode was aired on March 9, 2020 - age and health did not allow working as before, but until the last days Notkin remained an adviser to the general director of the TV Center channel, Yulia Bystritskaya.
TV presenter Boris Notkin and his wife IrinaPhoto: Larisa KUDRYAVTSEVA/EG
The tragic news took the channel's employees and stars by surprise.
“What a horror...” was all the host of the “Wife” program, Kira Proshutinskaya, could say. Later, an obituary appeared - even from the dry official lines it is clear that he was highly valued on the channel: “Boris Isaevich worked on the channel for 20 years - from the very foundation of TV Center.” His programs enjoyed constant success with television viewers. An unsurpassed interviewer, he easily found a common language with all the guests. He was loved and respected by all his colleagues without exception.”
Boris Notkin was born on August 13, 1942 in Moscow, a translator by training, worked at Moscow State University at the intersection of sociology and psycholinguistics. Once he was a synchronized interpreter for director Sergei Bondarchuk, when he worked with the composer of the film “Waterloo” Nino Rota, translated for Franco Zeffirelli... On television since 1986: he hosted the program “Good Evening, Moscow”, “Facing the City”, etc. on MTK (Moscow television channel).
Notkin was known as a merry fellow and an optimist. He loved an active lifestyle: cycling, tennis. He played the latter together with Nikolai Karachentsov - once they had the opportunity to fight with Boris Yeltsin and Shamil Tarpishchev.
He got married, as he himself said, “indecently late” - at 48 years old. But for love, for the sake of which he gave up his amorous exploits, but on occasion he recalled: “before marrying Irina Ivanovna, I was a professional womanizer.” In an interview with Express Gazeta, Notkin said that his wife was a specialist in energy economics, but for her husband’s sake she quit her job and became his personal assistant and stylist. In that same country house, bought with money from the sale of two apartments, they lived happily for 21 years. They had no children.
Boris Notkin with his wife Elena (in the center) and actress Svetlana Nemolyaeva. Photo: Larisa KUDRYAVTSEVA/EG
Dmitry Dibrov - about Boris Notkin: “He was a professor”
Dmitry Dibrov worked with Boris Notkin on the same field for a long time. Today he remembers his departed colleague:
“In recent years, the “scoop” Boris Isaevich was, as they say, “in place.” This was the time when the “120-ruble intelligentsia” felt real power. But when new television began, of course, he couldn’t cope with it. Because he is a “professor” - his manner of conducting the program did not fall into the stylistic floweriness that always accompanies revolutions. And in the 1990s there was a television revolution: “iron sailors” came to the fore, and the “professorship” looked untimely: a quiet voice, an academic manner of being in the frame.
In recent years, we have not seen Boris Isaevich on the screen, because ratings are an inexorable thing. Just as the rating “left” Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov from politics, so he “left” his favorite television partner, Boris Isaevich Notkin, from the air. New people have arrived. Good memory, colleague. The wheel of time moves inexorably..."
Boris Notkin invites - Mikhail Zadornov. Mikhail Zadornov visiting Boris Notkin
INTERVIEW
Boris Notkin: A wife is very important! I declare as a former womanizer!
His program “Boris Notkin Invites” (TV Center channel) has been aired on Sundays on TV Center for 24 years. On the eve of the birthday, we talked with the hero of the day (details)
Personal life of a TV presenter
The popular presenter was known by many as a fascinating person. From early childhood he began playing tennis, then he played for the Dynamo team. In 1993, he received an award for the Big Hat tournament. Nikolai Karachentsov shared the complete victory with him.
In numerous interviews, the famous figure tried to avoid topics on his personal life. He had a wife, Irina Ivanovna. The couple had no children. Their official marriage took place some time later, when Boris Notkin turned 48 years old. Another family member lived in the couple’s house - a Giant Schnauzer named Egor.
Awards and titles[edit | edit code]
- Order of Friendship (November 16, 2011) - for great services in the development of domestic television and radio broadcasting and many years of fruitful activity[26]
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (June 27, 2007) - for his great contribution to the development of domestic television and many years of fruitful work[27]
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (August 30, 1996) - for services to the state, many years of fruitful activity in the field of culture and art, great contribution to the development of mass sports[28]
- Medal “Defender of Free Russia” (March 18, 1993) - for the performance of civic duty in defending democracy and the constitutional order on August 19 - 21, 1991 [29]
- Honorary title “Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation” (May 19, 2003) - for services in the field of culture and many years of fruitful work[30]
Death of Boris Isaevich
On November 11, 2020, unexpected information about the death of Boris Notkin appeared in many media and on the Internet. However, the first to report the sad news was the NTV channel. A group of investigators and an ambulance went to the scene of the tragedy. All they had to do was declare the journalist’s death, or rather, suicide. Boris Notkin shot himself in the head.
The deceased Boris was discovered by his wife Irina. The version of suicide was also confirmed by the note lying next to the presenter. In it, Boris Notkin stated that it was difficult for him to live with cancer. He decided that this was the only way to save himself from the torment and severe pain that haunted him.
Boris Isaevich Notkin heard the terrible news about a serious illness when it was too late to do anything. The insidious disease has entered the fourth stage. The doctors made it clear that they would help keep Boris’s condition stable for some time. But, naturally, they did not give any comforting forecasts.
The news of the death of a famous figure spread throughout all media almost immediately after the death of Mikhail Zadorny, a popular comedian in Russia. A memorial service for Boris Notkin took place on November 16, 2017.
Is Boris Notkin hospitalized?
It turns out that the journalist was terminally ill . In the spring of 2020, the first signs of illness appeared. He felt unwell, felt weak and was constantly tormented by dizziness. It was decided to go for examination. The diagnosis sounded like a death sentence. Doctors discovered stage 4 inoperable brain cancer . It was useless to fight the disease; medicine could only offer drugs that alleviated the condition.
The TV presenter did not talk about what happened, he even continued to write to his work colleagues that not everything was so bad, I continued to work. Then he told his wife that he wanted to get a weapons license. After which the same gun that investigators found at the scene of death was purchased.
In addition to the weapon, there was a note nearby. In it, Boris said that he was leaving this life voluntarily, because he could not bear the torment associated with the disease.
It was not only physical suffering, but also moral. He was always an active person, used to working, moving, communicating. The disease broke him, life no longer had meaning. Thus, all rumors about the murder were dispelled.
