Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- TV presenter and announcer Igor Kirillov died at the age of 90. This was reported by RBC.

For more than 20 years Kirillov was the announcer of the Vremya program, and also hosted the Novosti and Blue Light programs. His assistant told RBC that Kirillov "did not suffer from any crown." “I just didn’t wake up, I left quietly,” he said.

“Igor Kirillov has passed away. This, unfortunately, is the case, older people are leaving. He did not suffer from any "crown", only yesterday he discussed the conditions of participation in the filming of the "Secret for a Million" program with Lera Kudryavtseva. He just didn’t wake up, he left quietly. There were no seizures. The funeral, as I understand it, will be dealt with by Channel One, and they will probably also inform about the date of the funeral,” said the assistant of the presenter.

Igor Kirillov was born on 14 September 1932 in Moscow. After school he entered VGIK, finished the first year, but then had to leave. In 1955, he graduated from the Higher Theater School named after Shchepkina.

He began working on television in 1957. He first held the position of assistant director of a music editorial office, and then became an announcer. Kirillov hosted such programs as "Latest News", "Novosti" and "Blue Light". For over 20 years Kirillov was the announcer of the Vremya news program. From 1965 to the end of the 1980s, he broadcast the Victory Parade on Red Square on television. From 1996 to 2011, I read the text before the annual minute of silence on May 9.

Since the late 1970s, Kirillov made a New Year’s address to the citizens of the country instead of top officials. He informed the audience about the launch of the first Earth satellite (1957), read out the statements of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee about the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979). His voice sounded during the funeral ceremonies of the leaders of the USSR and the Communist Party.

In the 1990s, Kirillov hosted the programs "Look", "Telescope", "Ex-libris" and was the artistic director of the channel "Business Russia". Since 2000, he was the announcer of the television production department of the Directorate for the design of the broadcast of the First Channel.

Kirillov also starred in several films. He performed episodic roles in the films Maiden Spring (1960), Seven Days with a Russian Beauty (1991), Envy of the Gods (2000), Park of the Soviet Period (2006), and others. Love at first sight "(1956)," War and Peace "(1956)," The Powerful of this World "(1958)," The Process is Postponed "(1958), etc.

Kirillov’s voice opens the song "Russians" by British singer Sting. The phonogram uses a fragment of one of the episodes of the Vremya program. Kirillov himself told Izvestia that the musician did not ask permission to use a fragment of the program with his participation in his composition. “There was no permission at all. When I heard the song, I was very surprised,” the announcer said.

Kirillov also said that his idol was the announcer of the All-Union Radio Yuri Levitan. “For me, he was not just an idol. He was a genius announcer and a simple, kind, sympathetic person. It is a great happiness to know him,” Kirillov shared.

In an interview with TASS, which the announcer gave on the occasion of his 85th birthday, he said that he upsets him in the manner of television presentation these days. “A high-speed rate of speech, far from what was established by literary norms in my time. The information carried by the presenters from the screen passes by the consciousness of the listeners. It flies into one ear, flies into the other. There is nothing left,” Kirillov said.

According to him, every word on the air must be comprehended, with pauses in the right places. “Therefore, I believe that the degradation of the native language is a great grief and problem both for the state and for an individual,” he said.

Kirillov holds several titles, including People’s Artist of the USSR. He was awarded a number of state and television awards: the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III and IV degrees, the Order of Honor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the honorary prize of the Russian Academy of Television TEFI, as well as the USSR State Prize for artistic and journalistic coverage of socio-political events in the Vremya program.