Oleg Gazmanov

KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.

Fabrika Zvyozd, sometimes known internationally as Star Factory, is a popular Russian television talent show that aired on Channel One from 2002 until 2007. It was the Russian version of the Endemol format Operación Triunfo.

An adaptation of the popular British format All Together Now, released on the BBC in 2018 and currently one of the best-selling English formats in the world: over the past year alone, about 14 versions of the project have been produced in different countries. Project “Come on, all together!” - a unique music show in which the best representatives of all styles and trends demonstrate their incredible vocal abilities. Talented vocalists are evaluated by a jury of one hundred people, headed by Sergey Lazarev.

The heroes of the almanac's stories are students who studied at the same institute in the 90s and lived together in a dormitory. Then many people left, their paths diverged and their lives turned out differently, but they did not lose touch and still communicate, help each other and share common problems. Fellow students meet 20 years later on the anniversary of their favorite teacher. But how many things will happen before this meeting…

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.

Anything can happen on New Year's Eve, even the most incredible. For example, your girlfriend can forget about her star career and return to her boyfriend. Or suddenly you can receive an SMS invitation from an unknown number to a party in the apartment of complete strangers...

The feelings of Phil and Pyotr are really mixed. Whatever one of them feels - the second experiences the same feelings immediately.