ABVGDeika

 ABVGDeika is a Soviet and Russian children's educational television program for preschoolers and primary school children. It was published from January 4, 1975 to January 25, 2020. The format of the program is lessons in the form of a game performance, with clowns acting as students.

History

In 1974, Head of the Department of Preschool Education Ministry of Education of the USSR Roza Kurbatova went to the USA. There, she saw the educational and entertainment program for children "Sesame Street" and suggested to produce a similar one on Central Television.

The author of the concept, title and scripts of the first ten programs wasEduard Uspensky, who also proposed the first line-up of clown students (which was the main difference between the program and Sesame Street): Senya (Semyon Farada), Sanya (Alexander Filippenko), Tanya (Tatiana Nepomnyashchaya) and Vladimir Ivanovich (Vladimir Tochilin). Together, about 20 issues were made, which were shown with repetitions for about three years.

Throughout all the years of the program's existence, she was its permanent editor, artistic director and presenter.Tatyana Chernyaeva, who performed under her own name and patronymic — "Tatyana Kirillovna".

In 1977, filming of the program was stopped. According to Tatyana Chernyaeva, the program was closed due to the employment of Alexander Filippenko at the Vakhtangov Theater, and Semyon Farada - at the Taganka Theater. Due to the different schedules of the leading actors, it was difficult to gather everyone in one place to shoot the release. [6] In 1978, the program was resumed, but the composition of students changed, only the former teacher remained — Tatyana Kirillovna. Students were circus artists: Toffee (Irina Asmus), Klepa (Vitaly Dovgan), Levushkin (Valery Levushkin) and Yura (Yuri Shamshadinov At this time, the artists were in Moscow for a rehearsal period at the circus directorate and could regularly participate in filming.

In 1984, new releases of the program appeared. Of the former students, only Klepa remained (since 1985, performed by the actor of the Moscow Youth Theater). Sergey Balabanov), the rest were new: Aksyuta (Elena Kazarinova), Kostya (Andrey Bronnikov and Igor Malyshev) and the Dog-a friend of man (Evgeny Balashov). On January 4, 1990, the program was closed again.

From December 11, 1994[7] to November 3, 1996 on the channel "Russian universities" (so called in the time of training the Fourth program)[8] and from 27 January to 5 may 1997 in the "Open world" on the TV channel NTV[9] broadcast periodically out of the cycle of "Abvgdeyka" in which Tatyana Kirillovna taught literacy and numeracy Klep (Sergey Balabanov) and his brother Shura (Aleksandr Osipov). During this period, the postman Pechkin also appeared (Alexander Vdovin — - a favorite character of the children from Prostokvashino. The return of the program to television was presented by Tatyana Kirillovna and Klepa, being guest presenters of the "Family Channel" .

The latest version of the program was broadcast on TVC (later — "TV Center")[10] from September 2000 to January 2020. At first, she was a member of the children's morning channel " Why? Why? " (presenters: Anna Markova and Vitashka). The symbols of the program were the dog Nose and the cat Tail.

Since October 13, 2002 ABVGDiyka has become an independent program. The composition of students has changed — the school has received: Makaronka (Vera Makarova), Sanek (Alexander Kovrizhnykh), Tatyana Kirillovna gave way to a young teacher-Marusa Alexandrovna (Marina Chernyaeva), and she took the place of the "school director" and together with the postman Pechkin began to answer letters from viewers. Since that time, filming began to take place against the background of chromakey (in 2002-2006 - in the channel's own virtual studio). Fragments from Soviet cartoons were often shown between "classes". related to the themes of the issues, as well as musical numbers performed by children's groups or guest singers. On TVC, the program ended with credits that included the main actors, authors of the idea, screenwriters of the release and composers (until mid — 2003, also the rest of the film crew). This version has been produced since 2007 with the financial support of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, as indicated by the title before the screen saver.

In 2006, Makaronka and Sanya left the team-they went to a " big " school, and Roma Romashkin (Konstantin Karasik) and Shpilka (Svetlana Malyukova) appeared instead. In the role of the teacher — Ksenia Sergeevna (Ksenia Kuznetsova). Leading the program (she plays the role of "school director") remained Tatiana Chernyaeva.

In 2010, a new teacher came to ABVGDeika — Kristina Alekseevna (Kristina Asmalovskaya). In 2011, Romashkin was replaced by Mitya (Dmitry Burukin). And in 2012, he was replaced by Gosha Pyaterkin (Dmitry Tikhonov).

From 2009 to 2016, a special version of the program was aired "Children's Radio".

Also, reruns of Soviet issues were shown by the TV channel "Nostalgia" , from December 5, 2009 to February 13, 2010-2x2 channel. Since September 15, 2018, episodes from the 2000s and 2010s have been repeated on the Central Television channel, owned by TV Center.

In the 1980s, the program was broadcast at 9:30 on Saturdays. At the same time, in the 2000s, a revived version of the program was released on TVC. In the last 13 years of its existence, ABVGDiyka TVC was also broadcast on Saturdays, but at 7: 40, then at 5:45 or 6:00.

Since April 21, 2018 and until the end of the program, the role of teacher Svetlana Yurievna was played by Vesta Burkot. Also in some issues, Tatiana Kirillovna returned to the role of a teacher.

Closing

On January 27, 2020, on the official YouTube channel of the program, its artistic director Tatyana Chernyaeva, along with the heroes of the program, announced its closure.:

Today we say a sincere thank you to all those who participated in the creation of the program for 45 years. We were comfortable and reliable working on the TV Center channel, which has become our home. Thank you for these 20 years of working together. Unfortunately, we are now forced to stop producing the program due to financial difficulties.

The news of the program's closure was received by the film crew on January 23, almost immediately after the filming of the block of programs for February and Marchwas completed. The channel's management, in turn, noted that the closure of the program is not due to a financial issue, but to a change in the program policy at TV Center in particular and on television in general. Deputy Minister of Communications Alexey Volin states that the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media does not consider it justified to allocate additional funding for the resumption of the ABVGDeika children's program on Russian TV.

In March 2020, the last three episodes of the program, which were released during January, were removed from the TV Center website and its YouTube channel.

From April 5 to May 1, 2020, the program was released in YouTube format. All episodes were shot in self-isolation and focused on the coronavirus pandemic.

Awards

In 2017, the program received the TEFI Award in the category "Program for children and youth".