KVN today is not only an abbreviation for a popular TV show. This is a game that connects several generations and a huge number of representatives different countries and cultures. After the next birthday of the club, let us recall the history of KVN, the founders and how it all began.
In the beginning it was BBB
Although the official history of KVN dates back to 1961, the basis for the popular program was laid a little earlier. In 1957 on the eve of World Festival youth and students, the center of which was chosen Moscow, at the Komsomol meeting it was decided to introduce a humorous program "Evening of cheerful questions" into the TV program. It should be noted that the prototype of this program was the Czechoslovak television show "Guess, Guess, Fortune Teller". The creators of this game were Sergey Muratov, Alber Axelrod and Mikhail Yakovlev, and composer Nikita Bogoslovsky and aspiring actress Margarita Lifanova were chosen as the hosts of the program.
The format of the TV show "Evening of Merry Questions" was significantly different from KVN, to which we are accustomed. First of all, the game was aired only live, and the audience was directly involved. Unfortunately, despite its great popularity, the program went on the air only three times, due to an overlay on the air, the project was filmed.
The birth of the club of the cheerful and resourceful
Only four years after the closing of the "Evening of Merry Questions" program, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a humorous TV game "The Club of the Merry and Resourceful" (or simply KVN) was born. The authors of the games of the humorous club were the same people who were involved in the games of BBB. The evening of funny questions was closed due to an overlap with viewers who wished to participate in the program. In this regard, the founder of KVN Sergey Muratov decided to make the game purely television. And the name KVN came in handy: in those days that was the name of the KVN-49 TV brand. It was at this time that the format of the familiar to us from childhood game-competition in wit between different teams was laid.
The debut of the new TV show took place in November 1961, and Albert Axelrod and Svetlana Zhiltsova appeared in the role of the leading KVN shortly after the start of the broadcast of the games.
Participants of the first games of the club
Unlike the current teams, the first members of the club were students from institutes and universities. In the debut game, the participants were teams from MISS (Moscow Civil Engineering Institute) and the institute foreign languages... The first programs were aired live the same way as the program "An Evening of Funny Questions" once did. And although there was no script as such, and some of the contests were invented on the fly, and the rules were improved in the process, the popularity of KVN grew at an amazing speed.
The KVN movement quickly spread throughout the country. The games began to be held not only among students, but also among schoolchildren and vacationers in pioneer camps, at enterprises. To get into the game that went on TV, teams had to go through a serious selection, which only the best of the best managed to overcome.
KVN host - Alexander Maslyakov
Until 1964, the main host of the TV show was Albert Axelrod, but he left the TV project along with other founders - Sergei Muratov and Mikhail Yakovlev. Instead of Axelrod, Alexander Maslyakov, a student of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, was appointed to the position of game manager, who to this day is the leader of the club's major league games.
However, the program was not destined to go out on television for a long time. Players often sneered at the ideology of the Soviet regime, so the records of the club's games began to be censored. Over time, censorship has become more severe, and sometimes even reaching the point of absurdity. So, KVN participants were not allowed to go on stage with a beard - the censors saw this as a mockery of Karl Marx. And in 1971, due to the excessively sharp jokes of the teams, the program was closed by the decision of the head of the central television, Sergei Lapin.
We are starting KVN
Thanks to the efforts of one of the participants in the first KVN, the TV show was again aired. The new founder of KVN Andrei Menshikov, the captain of the MISS team, left the broadcast format and the presenter (Alexander Maslyakov). But it was not without innovations: an invited jury appeared (in the first editions these were the founders of the game), new contests and a point rating system. Among other things, the host of the program had to take on the role of editor.
So, in 1986, the country's television screens showed the first game of the revived club of the cheerful and resourceful. It was at this moment that the anthem of the club "We are starting KVN" appeared, and the past games began with a song performed by Oleg Anofriev.
The TV show only needed a few episodes to reach the same level of popularity as previous projects. The Kvnov movement was revived, moreover, it spread not only in Russia, but also in some countries of Western Europe and in the United States of America.
KVN today
Today KVN is one of the highest rated television programs. Kvnovsky games are held not only in schools and universities, but also in various enterprises. This humorous club brings together members not only from Russia and neighboring countries, but also from many European countries. Since the return of the game to television screens, more than 100 different teams have taken part in the Major League alone.
And although the rules of the game can change even during the competition, regardless of the level of the league (including in the major league of KVN), there are several basic, mandatory conditions. Firstly, KVN is a team game, one participant will not be released onto the stage. The team must have a captain or front-man representing it at the captains competition, if such is included in the program. Secondly, the test of teams for their ability to joke is necessarily carried out in several competitions, for example, it can be a warm-up, homework or biathlon. Moreover, each game has a thematic name that sets the direction.
On television, you can now see the games of the major league, premieres, international and children's KVN releases.
The most famous kvnschiki
In the very first KVN games, which took place from 1961 to 1971, the participants were such celebrities as Boris Burda, Mikhail Zadornov, Gennady Khazanov, Leonid Yakubovich and Yuliy Gusman (who has been a permanent member of the jury of the games of the major league for a long time).
In addition, almost all the founders of the popular comedy television project Comedy-Club left KVN. So, Garik Martirosyan headed the "New Armenians" team, Mikhail Galustyan - "Burnt by the Sun", in which Alexander Revva played, Semyon Slepakov - the national team of the city of Pyatigorsk, Pavel Volya and Timur Rodriguez were team members "Valeon Dasson".
In addition, over the years, Alexey Kortnev, Vadim Samoilov, Alexander Pushnoy, Pelageya, Alexander Gudkov, Vadim Galygin, Ekaterina Varnava and many other famous players took part in the club's games.
The KVN team "Uralskie dumplings" releases the show of the same name, in which, like in KVN, Dmitry Sokolov, Dmitry Brikotkin participate, The first team that continued to joke on television in their own show was "Odessa gentlemen", by the way, with their light hand, or rather, a joke uttered in one of the games, Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov was proclaimed the president of the club of the cheerful and resourceful.
The best KVN teams. What are they?
To earn the title of the best KVN team, the participants had to win the games of the major league. Over the long history of the telecast, the cup of winners has been received by many teams, each of them can be called the best.
Over the years, the best were the members of one of the most titled teams "Children of Lieutenant Schmidt", the team of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, the Tomsk team "Maximum", "Uyezdny Gorod", "Sok", "Triod and Diod", "SOYUZ", "Asia MIX "and many others.
Who was on the jury of the KVN Major League?
Celebrities are invited to the KVN jury - stars of show business, former KVN participants, producers, actors or TV presenters. And although the composition of the judges changes regularly, there are never less than 5 people in it. So, let's recall the most famous members of the club's refereeing team.
Throughout the history of the KVN game, a huge number of celebrities have visited the role of judges. So, at the first games, the jury was attended by the founder of KVN, Andrey Menshikov. As mentioned earlier, a permanent member of the jury for major league games - He has been evaluating the jokes of the participants for 30 years. - the chairman of the panel of judges of a major league game - is present at almost all games of this level. The permanent members of the jury also include Leonid Yakubovich, Ekaterina Strizhenova, Valdis Pelsh and Mikhail Galustyan.
In addition, at various times, media personalities have participated and continue to participate as members of the jury of the Major League in KVN: Alexander Abdulov, Igor Vernik, Semyon Slepakov, Ivan Urgant, Andrei Malakhov, Pelageya, Leonid Yarmolnik, Andrei Mironov, Vladislav Listyev, Larisa Guzeeva and a lot others.
Over the years, in all educational institutions one of the most popular games is KVN. The options for preparing and conducting competitive programs are very different, but the classic version remains the same: the teams' business card, warm-up, captains competition, homework. We offer the most common option for preparing and conducting KVN.
One game can play from two to five teams. The formation of teams is carried out in different ways: from among students of the same class, school (lyceum, gymnasium), from boys and girls of the same class team, according to interests, by age, etc. The number of participants in each team, as a rule, should be the same ... A few days before the start of the game, the organizing committee of the KVN game (creative group) is formed, which selects the composition of the jury and gives each team certain tasks of the competitive program.
KVN competition programs are usually thematic or mixed (creative, developmental). The themes of the KVN competition can be, for example, the following: "Don't have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends!", "I have a little bit without friends, but a lot with friends!", "Ah, cinema, cinema!" etc. Depending on the general theme of the KVN club meeting, the names of the competitions are selected.
Usually teams prepare for participation in the competition program in the following scope:
1. Greeting card: “Grow big - don't be noodles!”, “We are glad to see you again!”, “How hard is the granite of science”, etc. (up to 4 minutes).
- "Let me introduce myself";
- game (reprise) block;
- greetings to the jury, fans, rival teams;
- the ending of the business card.
2. Warm up. This block can be very diverse. For example, teams prepare in advance for the opponents 2 questions and their own answers to them. Questions and answers must correspond to the subject of the competition program. It is possible to hold a blitz tournament for each team. For example, each team in turn is asked questions:
The glorious defender of Mother Russia, who sat motionless in the hut for 33 years. Kaliki pedestrians helped him to acquire heroic strength. (Ilya Muromets)
The villain. He whistled like a nightingale, shouted like an animal, hissed like a snake. (Nightingale the Robber)
We'll be brothers to Ilya Muromets, who freed Zabava Putyatichna, the niece of Prince Vladimir. (Nikitich)
The monster that lived on the Sorochinskaya mountain. (Dragon)
The famous guslar, who visited the bottom of the sea-ocean at the Sea King. (Sadko)
The owner of Lake Ilmen, who helped Sadko to catch golden-finned fish. (Water)
Hero, priest's son. Defeated Tugarin Zmeevich. (Alyosha Popovich)
A strong man who easily pulled a plow out of the ground, which the entire squad of Volga Svyatoslavovich could not pull out. (Mikula Selyaninovich)
The mighty hero who could not lift the saddle bag. (Svyatogor)
The hero who made the one-headed serpent bring living water. (Mikhailo Potyk)
What was the name of the hero of the fairy tale S. Lagerlef, who made a wonderful journey with wild geese? (Niels)
What is the name of the main character of A. Gaidar's story "Military Secret"? (Alka)
What is the name of your friend Elektronik from the fantastic story by E. Veltistov? (Syroezhkin)
3. Competition of captains.The content of the competition tasks is determined by the organizers of the competition program. Here again, there can be a variety of options: an intellectual blitz tournament, situational tasks, a "literacy contest", etc.
4. Homework: "With a song through life", "What is snow for me, what is heat for me, that it is pouring rain for me when my friends are with me!", "In the world of unlearned lessons", etc. (up to 7 minutes).
5. Criteria for evaluating the performances of KVN teams:
1. Reflection of the theme of the competition, screenwriting skills.
2. The originality of the director's staging of the team's performance:
- theatricalization (image creation);
- musical solution;
- artistry;
- wit and resourcefulness;
- costumes of players;
- stage and speech culture.
3. Fulfillment of the requirements for the performance (compliance with time limits, the size of the team, participation in all tasks of the competitive program).
For the assessment of the performances of teams, a certain system of points is usually established. For example, the maximum number of points:
- for the competition "Greeting card" - 5;
- "Warm-up" - 5;
- "Competition of captains" - 5;
- "Homework" - 6.
6. Summing up the results of the KVN game. This is the most difficult stage in the entire competition program. The refereeing must be objective, excluding any preferences and personal sympathies. Usually jury members are seated at separate tables, equipped with signs on a five- or six-point system. The chairman of the jury (secretary) sums up the total (total points) after each competition and calculates the final result. It is advisable to include well-known and respected people in the jury (it is not always justified to involve only the administration or teachers of the educational institution).
The prototype of KVN was the program "Evening of funny questions"organized by journalist Sergei Muratov on the model of the Czech program “Guess, Guess, Fortune Teller”. In the program "Evening of Merry Questions", aired in 1957, viewers answered the questions of the presenters, and humor was especially welcomed. The idea was completely new for that time. For the first time, a Soviet television program was attended not only by the presenters, but by the audience. In addition, "Evening" was broadcast live. Produced the program "Festival edition of the Central Television", the first on Soviet television youth edition, founded by Sergei Muratov in 1956.
"Evening of Funny Questions" was very popular, but aired only three times. On the third program, a prize was promised to everyone who came to the studio in a fur coat, a hat and boots (it was summer) and with a newspaper for December 31 last year. The host of the program, composer Nikita Bogoslovsky, forgot to mention the newspaper. Of course, almost all TV viewers wore winter clothes. Crowds of people in fur coats and felt boots burst into the studio, swept the policemen away, and complete chaos began. The broadcast was stopped, but the broadcast was not replaced by anything. Until the end of the evening, the TVs showed the "Break for technical reasons" screensaver. The broadcast was closed.
The closed resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU on "BBB" was published only a few years ago (according to the textbook "Television journalism" edited by A. Ya. Yurovsky, Moscow, 2005) [source not specified 154 days]
Four years later, on November 8, 1961, Elena Galperina called Sergey Muratov and said that the people needed their transfer. A number of former creators of the program "Evening of Funny Questions" released a new TV show - KVN. The first presenter, Albert Axelrod, left the program in 1964, Sergei Muratov and Mikhail Yakovlev left KVN with him. Axelrod was replaced by MIIT student Alexander Maslyakov (since then he has been a permanent host of this program), along with the announcer Svetlana Zhiltsova. The abbreviation KVN stands for "Club of the Merry and Resourceful", but in addition, it was the brand of the then television - KVN-49. Teams have already competed in the KVN program. Since the teams often sneered at Soviet reality or ideology (these were the jokes that TV viewers liked the most [source not specified 154 days]), from some point they began to be broadcast not B live broadcast, but B recordings, and ideologically questionable jokes cut out [source not specified 154 days]. The program irritated the source not specified 154 days, the head of the central television Sergei Lapin, soon the KGB began to deal with it. Censorship over time became more and more harsh, to the point that it was impossible to go on stage with a beard - this was considered a mockery of Karl Marx. source not specified 154 days / At the end of 1971, after the proceedings between Lapin and Muratov, the program was closed.
KVN, like the "Evening of cheerful questions", was very popular. The KVN movement arose throughout the country. In imitation of the broadcast, KVN games were arranged in schools, pioneer camps, etc. KVN qualifying tournaments were held in universities throughout the country, the best teams got on television.
KVN was revived in 1986, at the beginning of perestroika. The initiator was the captain of the KVN MISS in the 1960s, Andrei Menshikov. The presenter, like u before closing, was Maslyakov. After the revival of the founders of KVN, they invited the jury first, and then as guests of honor. The first presenter of the program, Albert Axelrod, offered his image of Maslyakov, but the host did not like this idea. After several releases, the teams reached the same high level as the KVN of the 1960s. The KVN movement arose again, and the games are held in Western Europe (Western European League of KVN), Israel and the USA. The first international game of the CIS - Israel (1992, Moscow) and even the world championship between the teams of the USA, Israel, the CIS and Germany (1994, Israel) are being held (with overwhelming success). KVN becomes one of the most popular Russian television programs.
Many KVN participants, after completing their playing career, became popular TV presenters, organizing their own humorous programs. Among them are Yulia Gusman, Bahram Bagirzade, Oleg Filimonov, Valdis Pelsh, Alexey Kortnev, Sergei Sivokho, Tatiana Lazareva, Mikhail Shats, Sergei Belogolovtsev, Timur Batrutdinov, Mikhail Galustyan, Garik Martirosyanov, Garik Kharykanadov
Rules of the game
Student team performance
In KVN, they play according to different rules, sometimes they can change right during the game, which happens even in the most important major league. However, there are rules that are adhered to in any case in all leagues, which makes KVN a recognizable game.
First, KVN is played by teams... By at least, the team must contain at least two members (the smallest team that played at a high level - the "Team of Minor Nations" - at one time consisted of only two players). Each team must have a captain. The KVN captain must also represent his team in the captains competition, if he was included in the game program. Most of the teams are wearing original costumes that distinguish the players of this team from other players. The costumes within the same team can be the same, in the same style, or personal, unique for each team member.
Secondly,the game should be divided into separate contests. Usually, each competition is given, in addition to the nominal one (“Warm-up”, “Music Competition”), an original name that sets the theme for the entire performance. The game itself also gets an original name that defines the overall theme of the game. Each competition must be judged by a jury headed by its chairman.
KVN contests
Greeting
This competition is played from the beginning of the game. In it, the team members represent themselves and their team. The greeting consists mainly of text jokes and thumbnails.
Warm up
Competition, in which teams in thirty seconds must come up with a funny answer to questions that are asked by other teams, the audience, the jury and / or the presenter.
STEM (Student Theater of Variety Miniatures)
A short competition that was invented in 1995. The main principle of the competition is that there should not be more than three KVN players on the stage at the same time. In the 2008 Major League season, the three-man rule became optional.
BRIZ (Bureau of Rationalization and Inventions)
A short literary competition in which teams need to present an invention or phenomenon.
Musical competition
A competition that focuses on musical numbers - songs, dances or playing instruments. In 1995, he came up with the One Song Contest (COP), which can only use one melody, and in 2003 - the Musical Final, which is the final song contest, in which the teams need to write a beautiful u funny final song.
Biathlon
Competition invented by the Belarusian KVN. Team members "shoot" jokes, and after each lap the jury removes the less liked team from the distance. The winner receives 1 point, and in case of a draw - 0.9 points for each of the finalists of the competition.
News Contest
Similar to BREEZE, but looks like a comic news release. Like a “warm-up” and a “biathlon”, all the playing teams are on the stage in this competition.
Homework
Long competition, played at the end of the game. In the absence of "Muzykalka" it is sometimes played as "musical homework".
Freestyle
A free competition in which teams are allowed to play in any style and show any numbers. The competition was created in 2003.
Film competition
Competition in which you need to shoot a video or sound a famous film.
Captains competition
Individual competition for the captains of the competing teams.
One Song Contest (COP)
KVN league
Official leagues MC KVN (TTO AMiK) for 2009
Central Lugs Editors
Major League Moscow Andrey Chivurin (KhAI), Leonid Kuprido (BSU)
Prime Minister Mikhail Gulikov (Transit), Valentin Ivanov (KhAI), Alexey Lyapichev (NZM)
Higher Ukrainian League Kiev Andrey Chivurin (KhAI), Valentin Ivanov (KhAI)
Pervaya aiga Minsk Leonid Kuprido (BSU), Arkady Dyachenko (KhAI)
League "Start KVN" Voronezh Valentin Ivanov (KhAI), Anatoly Shulik
League "KVN-Asia" Krasnoyarsk Sergey Ershov ("Pelmeni"), Dmitry Shpenkov (MEI)
Slobozhanskaya Luga Kharkiv Arkady Dyachenko (KhAI), Dmitry Prokhorov (SSU)
Ural League Chelyabinsk Sergey Ershov ("Pelmeni"), Ilgam Rysaev ("4 Tatarina")
Northern League Khanty-Mansiysk Vyacheslav Myasnikov ("Pelmeni"), Alexey Eks ("Left Bank")
Luga "Volga region" Kazan Arkady Dyachenko (KhAI), Dmitry Kolchin (SOK)
Laga "KVN-Siberia" Novosibirsk Yuri Kruchenok (BSU), Renat Aktuganov ("Sib. Siby")
Ryazan League Ryazan Alexander Yakushev ("Prima"), Vadim Ermishin ("Warlock")
Laga of Moscow and Moscow Region Alexey Lyapichev (NZM), Oleg Valentsov
Krasnodar League Krasnodar Mikhail Gulikov ("Transit"), Ilgam Rysaev ("4 Tatarina")
First Ukrainian Luga Odessa Arkady Dyachenko (KhAI), Dmitry Prokhorov (SSU)
Interregional leagues Editors
Dneprovskaya luga Dnepropetrovsk Evgeniy Gendin ("Theater of KVN" DGU "")
Pacific meadow Khabarovsk Andrey Minin ("MaximuM"), Alexey Petrenko ("Bot. Garden")
Far Eastern Luga Vladivostok Alexander Madich (Vladivostok national team), Evgeny Usov (Ocean - Nakhodka)
League "Caucasus" Vladikavkaz Timur Karginov ("Pyramid"), Zaur Baytsaev ("Pyramid")
League "West of Russia" Kaliningrad Ilya Romanko (Pyatigorsk), Pavel Pavlovsky (GUU)
Astana League Astana Kumar Lukmanov (Astana), Nurlan Koyanbaev (Astana)
League "Caspian" Astrakhan Artyom Usov ("4 Tatars"), Alexey Lyapichev (NZM)
League "Polesie" Gomel Yuri Kruchenok (BSU), Ilya Zuev (Belarusian national team)
League "Baltika" St. Petersburg Timofey Kuts (Peter's team), Taymaz Sharipov (Peter's team)
League "KVN-Plus" Nizhny Novgorod Ivan Pyshnenko ("Sports station"), Konstantin Obukhov ("Sports station"), Alexey Yurin ("NZ" N. Novgorod)
Divisions of leagues Editors
All-Russian junior league Moscow
Moscow Student League Oleg Valentsov, Pavlovsky Pavel (SUM team)
Moscow student league 2 Moscow Oleg Valentsov, Pavlovsky Pavel (SUM team)
Major League
Main article: Major League of KVN
The supreme law of the revived KVN has existed since 1986, when KVN reappeared on television. Until 1993, this league was the only official one, and in 1993 the first league appeared, the champion of which received an automatic ticket to the highest league of the next season. Thus, the level of the highest league began to grow from year to year, u most teams got there after having played in the first league. Later, in 1999, other official leagues of KVN appeared, teams with experience of playing in different official leagues of TTO AMiK began to get the highest. The number of top league teams increased from 6 to 12 and 15 teams in the B season. Usually, the highest rank consists of three games of the 1/8 finals, two quarter-finals, two semi-finals and a final, although at different times there have been experiments with consolation games and double semi-finals. The champion of the highest rank is considered the champion of the whole club and gets the right to play in the KVN Summer Cup. Leading the league is Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov, famous people are sitting in the jury, and recently Konstantin Ernst (chairman of the jury), Julius Gusman, Leonid Yarmolnik, Mikhail Efremov and Igor Vernik are permanent members of the jury. The rest of the jury members change from game to game.
From 1986 to 2009, 138 KVN teams played in the Major League.
Premier League
Main article: Premier League of KVN
The Premier League was opened in 2003 and became the second TV show of the First Channel. Younger KVN teams play in the Premier League, mainly champions and finalists of various official leagues. In 2004 it was decided that the champion of the first league would fall into the television league, that is, the highest or prime minister, only the champion of the premier league would automatically fall into the highest league. In addition, the B season of the Premier League includes teams that lost the 1/8 finals of the Major League, which are offered to continue the season in the Premier League. The Premier League season scheme changes from season B to season: sometimes the season starts with a Premier League festival (which functions as a qualifying game), then three or four games of the 1/8 finals, two or three quarterfinals, two semi-finals and a final are played. At the moment [when?] Most of the teams of the highest league are teams-graduates of the Premier League, among them are the champions of the Club 2005, "Narts From Abkhazia" and "Megapolis", as well as the champion of 2007, the MPEI team Ordinary people", Champion of 2008" Maximum "(Tomsk). The prime minister is led by Alexander Maslyakov Jr., and the jury is well-known KVN players. From 2003 to 2007, 86 teams played in the Premier League (the Major League reached 86 only in 2001). Prior to the 2007 semifinals, the jury made decisions in the Premier League by a meeting, but since the fall of 2007, scoreboards have appeared in the Premier League. In addition, it was decided not to put in the jury of the Luga editors and KVNschikov working with competing teams. The Premier League champions were the teams Region-13 (2003), Left Bank (2003), MaximuM (2004 and 2005), Megapolis (2004), Sportivnaya Station (2006), SOK (2007), "Triode and Diode" (2008), "Polygraph Polygraph" (2008), "Parapaparam" (2009).
Club Champions
Vysshaya Luga-1987 Odessa OSU Odessa Gentlemen
Higher League-1988 Novosibirsk NSU
Supreme Luga-1989 Kharkiv HVVAIU
Higher League-1990 Odessa OSU Odessa Gentlemen
Vysshaya Luha-1991 Novosibirsk NSU
Major League 1992 Yerevan Baku YSMI Boys from Baku
Higher League-1993 Novosibirsk NSU Only girls in jazz
Supreme Luga-1994 Yerevan YSMI
Higher League-1995 Moscow Kharkiv RF Armed Forces KhAI Hussar Squadron
Higher League-1996 Makhachkala DGU Makhachkala vagrants
Supreme Lega-1997 Zaporozhye-Kryvyi Rih Yerevan Transit New Armenians
Higher League-1998 Tomsk Children of Lieutenant Schmidt
Higher League-1999 Minsk BSU
Major League-2000 Yekaterinburg USTU-UPI Ural dumplings
Vysshaya Luga-2001 Minsk BSU
Higher League-2002 Chelyabinsk-Magnitogorsk County town
Higher League-2003 Sochi Burnt by the Sun
Higher League-2004 Pyatigorsk National team of Pyatigorsk
Higher League-2005 Sukhumi Narts from Abkhazia Megapolis
Higher League-2006 Moscow RUDN University
Vysshaya lega-2007 Moscow MEI Ordinary people
Higher League-2008 Tomsk TSU MaximuM
Offer of the day: performance of the KVN team
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 presenters' questions 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, absent-mindedly 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 has become 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 on KVN only intensified from year to year. At some point, the programs began to be broadcast not in live broadcast, but in the recordings 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 able 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 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 (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 (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 at the Faculty of Journalism 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, reviving 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 stay long years in the lethargic sleep of the Odessa team (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 the 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, the same as the school year.
KVN Champions:
1961/1962 - Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISI)
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 of 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 tell you which KVN teams played in these 11 finals.
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 has been celebrated since 2001 at the suggestion of the club's president Alexander Maslyakov, 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 arise 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 transfer assumed funny pranks, according to the results of which the winner was revealed. In the first program, the task was to bring the seventh volume of Jack London, a ficus in a pot 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 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 decryption, 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 was known in advance homework, which did not appear immediately either. 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 starts dancing 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 on 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 also 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 program was closed, they played in almost every university, in every school, almost by yard 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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