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What where when with the participation of friends. Alexander Druz and his Elena: The main prize of the honored intellectual. Personal life of Alexander Friends

Alexander Druz was born and raised in Leningrad. His father and mother were the most ordinary Soviet people. From a young age, the boy read a lot, but at the same time he dreamed of becoming a firefighter or a sailor. In the elementary grades of the 47th secondary school, Sasha became a participant in various reviews and competitions. When he was nine years old, he won the first prize in his life - a book written by Vladimir Maksimov.

Young Friends got it for the first place at the end of the evening of entertaining questions, which took place in one of the rest houses of Ukraine. After that, Sasha repeatedly became the winner of various competitions in his educational institution. Being a tenth grader, he won the title of the winner of the quiz "You are a Leningrader", dedicated to the native city of Druz.

Start of the Star Trek

After graduating from school, Alexander became a student at the Leningrad Industrial and Pedagogical College. Here he studied as an electrical technician, master of industrial training. He received his second higher education at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers.

After receiving a university diploma, the future owner of the Diamond Owl entered the position of a systems engineer and immediately applied for membership in the What? Where? When?". The first time live on the popular TV program Friends was seen in 1981.

According to Alexander, his application lay in the editorial office of the program for about a year. Then he had to pass the selection and only after that he was accepted as a member of the intellectual club.
It is worth noting that in 1982, for the first time in the history of “What? Where? When?" the connoisseur was removed from the table after prompting those present in the hall. It turned out to be Friends.

Diamond Master

Alexander has one of the longest careers in the popular program. Six times he was recognized as the best connoisseur of the year. In 1995, Druz was the first to be awarded the title of "Master", and in 2011 he was awarded the "Diamond Owl" as the best player in "What? Where? When?".

Alexander participated not only as an expert in the intellectual casino. He could be seen in other television programs, for example, in the "Brain Ring", where the Friends team won four times, as well as in "Own Game". Also, "Master" often goes on foreign "intellectual business trips".

For example, he was a repeated participant in Ukrainian, Israeli and Uzbek television projects. Friends keeps numerous awards from different parts of the world at home.

businessman friend

In addition to success on television, Alexander managed to become a successful businessman. He was the owner of two companies:

  1. "Build-Agio".
  2. "Trans-Agio".

They did business in the building materials market.
Friends sold his business in 2012, after the onset of another crisis situation in the global economy.

The owner of the "Diamond Owl" runs a branch of the intellectual casino in St. Petersburg. He is the most titled member of the famous TV show of all time.

Success in personal life

Throughout his adult life, the connoisseur lives with his wife Elena. Two daughters grew up in their family:

  • Marina;
  • Inna.

They followed in the footsteps of their father and at different times took part in the games of the intellectual casino. Each of the daughters of Druz was marked with the "Crystal Owl". The eldest Inna already has her own children - Alina and Alice. Grandpa Sasha also takes part in their upbringing.

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I always admire the game of experts "What? Where? When?", I really love two masters - Maxim Potashev and Alexander Druz. Where do experts work? Or has the game become their main occupation?

N. K o n o v a l o v a, Stavropol Territory

Friends - teleboss

"The GAME does not feed," the master and four-time winner of the "Crystal Owl" Alexander Druz answered us. "All experts have their favorite work. Personally, I am the program manager of the St. of fate", on REN-TV the series "Agency", recently there was a series "Vovochka" - all of them were produced by our television company, however, I did not relate to all of them.

The daughters of Alexander Friends Inna and Marina, as you know, also appeared on the air of "What? Where? When?". “They are quite normal modern girls,” their father says about them. “Friends, discos, boys. Both are very fond of any extreme pastime: they are fond of horses, go on geek boats along the Neva and the Gulf of Finland. Inna graduated from St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance , studies in graduate school and works in one of the largest St. Petersburg banks, and the youngest, Marina, switched to the 4th year of this university.

Dad, unlike daughters, is not such an extreme person. He prefers a quiet and relaxing holiday. Favorite places (except St. Petersburg): Paris, Amsterdam, Mikhailovskoye. He travels only with his wife Elena, whom he met in the 1st grade. “My mother-in-law claimed that we met even earlier, but I don’t remember that,” says Alexander. “From the 1st to the 3rd grade we studied together, then Lena moved to another school. And in the 9th grade I congratulated Lena since March 8, we met and have been together ever since."

Potashev - manager

SECOND MASTER "What? Where? When?" Maxim Potashev, 33, is the head of the analytical center at Kaspersky Lab, which develops anti-virus programs. “Fortunately, the game does not interfere with work,” Maxim said. “But it takes up all the free time that I have. Does popularity interfere? working?!" We have to debunk this misleading impression.

Maxim's wife, like Friends' wife, is called Lena, and they met thanks to the game - Lena played in the Moscow club "What? Where? When?". But Potasheva's wife has never played on the air, and she does not come to the studio to cheer for her husband. “Lena is very nervous, this is transmitted, and I also start to worry, so we decided that it was better not to experiment,” says Maxim. “But recently at the world championship of the What? Where? When?", held in Baku, Lena played with me in the same team." The Potashevs have no children yet.

Burda - culinary specialist

And WHERE do the rest of the "What? Where? When?" experts work?

Rovshan Askerov - "Sport-Express" columnist.

Boris Burda is the host of a culinary program on Ukrainian television.

Fedor Dvinyatin - lecturer at St. Petersburg State University, Department of Philology.

Georgy Zharkov - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology of the Vladimir State Pedagogical University, member of the Expert Council on Youth Policy of the Administration of the Vladimir Region.

Sergey Tsarkov - Vice President of the Oleg Efremov Foundation, entrepreneur.

Victor Sidnev - director of Troitsk-Telecom, deputy of the Troitsk City Council of Deputies.

September 4 marks 35 years since the release of the first program "What? Where? When?". This intellectual TV game made famous many residents of Russia and the CIS countries.

Alexander Druz plays "What? Where? When?" since 1981. A system engineer by education, he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers.

Five-time winner of the "Crystal Owl" prize (1990, 1992, 1995, 2000 and 2006).

In the final game of the 1995 winter series, Alexander Druz was awarded the honorary title of Master of the game "What? Where? When?", awarded the Big Crystal Owl and the Order of the Diamond Star as the best player in all 20 years of the elite club's existence.

From 1998 to 2001 worked in the company "NTV-Kino" as an executive director, and also served as a producer-coordinator and chief consultant.

In 2001, he became the general director of New Russian Series LLC. Here, until 2006, he produced such television series as "Streets of Broken Lights", "Secrets of the Investigation", "National Security Agent", "Children of the Arbat", "Taxi Driver", "Cop Wars", "Airport" and others.

From 2006 to the present - General Director of LLC "Forward-Film", producer and co-producer of the TV series "Katerina", "Protection of Krasin", "Schedule of Fates", "Special Group", "Cop Wars-3", "Web" , "Cop in law", "Highway Patrol". Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, member of the Guild of Producers of Russia, member of the Academy of Russian Television.

The author of the monument to TV presenter Vladimir Voroshilov at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

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Alexander Abramovich Friends(born May 10, 1955, Leningrad) - Soviet and Russian systems engineer, programmer and teacher, TV presenter, participant in intellectual games. Master of the game "What? Where? When? ”, winner of the Diamond Owl prize, as well as a six-time winner of the Crystal Owl prize, three-time world champion in the sports version of ChGK, director of the St. Petersburg branch of the International Association of ChGK Clubs. A multiple participant in the television games "Brain Ring" and "Own Game", in which he established a number of achievements.

Biography

Medal of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg

Alexander Druz was born on May 10, 1955 in Leningrad, in a family of participants in the Great Patriotic War - military personnel Abram Moiseevich Druz (1911-1984), a native of Zhytomyr, a submarine engineer, captain of the 3rd rank, holder of the Order of the Red Banner, two orders of the Red Star , and Seina Meerovna Druz (nee Khazanova, born in 1920), participants in the defense of Leningrad, nurses in a military hospital.

He was in the construction business.

He served as the head of television programs for the now closed St. Petersburg channel "STO".

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Champion of the television game "Brain Ring" in 1990, 1991, 1994, 2010.

Three times participated in the program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? "(One - aired on April 11, 2009, paired with Alexander Rosenbaum - aired on November 28, 2015, paired with Viktor Sidnev - aired on December 22, 2018).

Suspension from participation in TV games

A few weeks after the last game of Alexander Druz in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ”, On February 12, 2019, the editor-in-chief of this television quiz, Ilya Ber, accused him of cheating by publishing a public appeal to the ethics commission of the International Club Association “What? Where? When?" , which, in fact, is headed by Druz himself.

According to Ilya Ber, a few days before the filming of the program, Alexander Druz offered to "help" Ber win the main quiz prize of 3 million rubles in exchange for a share in the winnings. Ber, wishing to expose Druz, subsequently recorded his conversations with him on a dictaphone, the recordings of which he also posted in his public statement. According to the recordings, in a conversation, Druz confirmed that the "help" request was not a joke ("Joke is not a joke, but you can consider the option"), discussed Beer's share (one third of the amount after taxes) and received some questions from Beer for the future game and the correct answers to them. To prove the fact of fraud, Ber, according to him, gave Friends only a part of the real questions and answers, and during the recording he replaced the last most difficult six questions with unknown ones to Friends.

Thus, during the game, Alexander Druz and the connoisseur Viktor Sidnev, who played with him, were able to use four of the answers received from Ilya Ber - for questions six through nine. These answers were given before reaching the "fireproof amount". Then Druz and Sidnev reached the last - the fifteenth question, but could not answer it correctly, as a result of which they completed the game with a "fireproof amount" of winnings of 200 thousand rubles. Ilya Ber suggested that Sidnev probably did not participate in the conspiracy, Ber made such conclusions by observing his behavior on the air.

The event caused a great resonance in the media. A day later, Alexander Druz answered questions from journalists. He confirmed the authenticity of the audio recordings of his conversations with Ilya Ber, but, according to his version, Ber himself offered him a deal for the correct answers and Druz only "carefully played along with him", wanting to see "how far this person can go".

On February 15, 2019, the outcome of the game with the participation of Alexander Druz and Viktor Sidnev was officially canceled and the winnings of 200 thousand rubles were not paid to them. In addition, the companies producing the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? " and what? Where? When? " made a decision for an indefinite time to remove Friends and Ber from future participation in both television programs.

A television

Author and presenter of intellectual games and educational programs on various TV channels.

Other projects

Alexander Druz carries the Olympic torch

Family

Wife Elena Druz is a doctor, two daughters: Inna and Marina, both also play “What? Where? When?" and were awarded the "Crystal Owls". They studied at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239, where Alexander Druz still trains youth teams of experts, and also holds games “What? Where? When?" in a modified format for the entire school. Granddaughters: Alice (born 2008), Alina (born 2011), Ansley (born 2014) and Roni (born 2016).

Bibliography

Notes

  1. The feat of the people
  2. Submarine forces of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet (1940)
  3. Friends Alexander Abramovich
  4. All-Russian action "Week of kindness"
  5. Official site of the first master of the game “What? Where? When?" Alexandra Druzya - biography
  6. Alexander Druz got rid of his business Archived December 3, 2014 at the Wayback Machine from December 3, 2014 to Wayback Machine
  7. Biography from the official site “What? Where? When?"
  8. What? Where? When? - Young Alexander Druz: the first hint (12/29/1982)
  9. What? Where? When? :: Television company "IGRA-TV" :: Chronicle of the game:: October 24, 1986
  10. What? Where? When? :: Television company "IGRA-TV" :: Chronicle of the game: December 8, 1990
  11. What? Where? When? Awarding of the 1st master 12/30/1995
  12. What? Where? When? :: Television company "IGRA-TV" :: Game statistics
  13. Transfer - Sports «What? Where? When?" Official IAC rating
  14. World Cup 2012 / Previous championships
  15. Own Game (NTV, 10/25/2003) Alexander Druz sets a record
  16. Alexander Druz is in second place in terms of total winnings
  17. Custom Game - Statistics
  18. MAC ChGK
  19. Evening Urgant - Andrey Kozlov, Alexander Druz. Issue 170, 05/23/2013
  20. Igor Nikolaev in the Guess the Melody program
  21. "Who want to be a millionaire?"
  22. Who want to be a millionaire? - Issue dated 12/22/2018
  23. berimorr, ru_chgk. Appeal to the Ethics Commission and the IAC Board (indefinite) . Sports "What? Where? When?" (February 12, 2019). Retrieved February 15, 2019.

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Alexander Abramovich Friends(May 10, 1955, Leningrad) - Soviet and Russian player of mind games. Master of the game "What? Where? When? "(ChGK), winner of the Diamond Owl prize, as well as a six-time winner of the Crystal Owl prize, three-time world champion in the sports version of ChGK, director of the St. Petersburg branch of the International Association of Clubs of ChGK. A multiple participant in the television games "Brain Ring" and "Own Game", in which he established a number of achievements.

By profession - system engineer; He served as the head of television programs for the St. Petersburg channel "STO".

Biography

Alexander Druz was born on May 10, 1955 in Leningrad. In a Jewish family.

In 1972 he graduated from the Leningrad secondary school No. 47 named after. K. D. Ushinsky. In 1975 he graduated from the Leningrad Industrial and Pedagogical College of PTO with a degree in electrical engineering, master of industrial training. In 1980 he graduated with a degree in systems engineering. He was in the construction business. Since 1991, Alexander Druz has been teaching schoolchildren. He worked at the 171st French gymnasium and at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239. He repeatedly organized school tournaments in the ChGK of urban and international significance.

For merits in the field of education he was awarded the medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg".

Mind games

In 2009, as a legionnaire, he played for the Nikita Mobile TeTe team at the championships of Uzbekistan in Brain Ring (1st place) and in What? Where? When?" (2nd place), then at the I Open Cup of Tashkent (1st place in "What? Where? When?" and "Brain Ring", as well as in the overall standings - 2nd place in the erudite quartet) and Connoisseur-2009 in Eilat (including 2nd place at the Olympic tournament in "What? Where? When?"). In the same year, he played for the Great Britain national team at the Nations Cup in the game “What? Where? When?" in Kirov.

In 2010, he also played several times for the Nikita Mobile TeTe team, which won the VII Uzbekistan Championship, and then the VIII World Championship in the city of Eilat (Israel). In 2011 and 2012, this team won the national championship without a Master, but at the IX and X World Championships of those years, he joined the NMTT team. In Odessa (2011), together with the team, he became a silver medalist, and in Saransk (2012) - gold (becoming the only three-time world champion in the game "What? Where? When?").

According to the IAC ChGK website, he is one of the 11 players who took part in all ten world championships in sports “What? Where? When?" .

Family

  • Wife Elena Druz is a doctor,
  • Two daughters: Inna and Marina, both also play What? Where? When? ” and were awarded with Crystal Owls.
  • Granddaughter Alice (born 2008).
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  • Ansley's granddaughter (b. 2014)
  • Granddaughter Roni (born 2016)

Both daughters studied at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239, where Alexander Druz still trains youth teams of experts, and also holds games “What? Where? When?" in a modified format for the entire school.

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I had to urgently come up with something, but for some reason my head was completely empty, no matter how hard I tried to find something sensible there ... And the “spider” (we will continue to call it that, for lack of a better one) in the meantime is quite dragged us, apparently, to his nest, preparing to "supper" ...
– Where are the people? Almost suffocating, I asked.
- Oh, you saw - there are a lot of people here. More than anywhere... But they are, for the most part, worse than these beasts... And they won't help us.
- And what do we do now? - mentally "chattering my teeth," I asked.
“Remember when you showed me your first monsters, you hit them with a green beam? - already again with might and main mischievously sparkling eyes, (again, recovering faster than me!), Stella asked fervently. - Let `s together?..
I realized that, fortunately, she was still going to give up. And I decided to try, because we still had nothing to lose ...
But we didn’t have time to strike, because at that moment the spider stopped abruptly and we, feeling a strong push, flopped to the ground with all our might ... Apparently, he dragged us to his home much earlier than we expected ...
We found ourselves in a very strange room (if, of course, it could be called that). It was dark inside, and complete silence reigned ... There was a strong smell of mold, smoke and the bark of some unusual tree. And only from time to time some faint sounds were heard, similar to groans. As if the "suffering" had no strength left at all ...
- Can't you light it up somehow? – I quietly asked Stella.
“I already tried, but for some reason it doesn’t work ...” the little girl answered in the same whisper.
And right in front of us, a tiny fire lit up.
“That's all I can do here. - The girl sighed sadly.
In such a dim, sparse light, she looked very tired and seemed to have matured. I kept forgetting that this amazing miracle child was only five years old! she is still a very tiny girl, who at the moment should have been terribly scared. But she courageously endured everything, and was even going to fight...
- Look who's here. the little girl whispered.
And peering into the darkness, I saw strange “shelves” on which, like in a dryer, people were lying.
- Mom? .. Is that you, mom ??? – quietly whispered a surprised thin voice. - How did you find us?
At first I did not understand that the child was talking to me. Having completely forgotten why we came here, I only then realized that they were asking me specifically when Stella pushed me hard with her fist in the side.
“But we don’t know what their names are!” I whispered.
Leah, what are you doing here? – sounded already male voice.
- I'm looking for you, daddy. - Stella mentally answered in Leah's voice.
– How did you get here? I asked.
“Surely, just like you ...” was the quiet answer. – We were walking along the shore of the lake, and did not see that there was some kind of “failure” ... So we fell there. And there this beast was waiting... What are we going to do?
- Leave. I tried to answer as calmly as possible.
– And the rest? Do you want to leave them all? Stella whispered.
“No, of course I don’t! But how are you going to get them out of here?
Then some strange, round hole opened and a viscous, red light blinded his eyes. Head squeezed with ticks and deathly wanted to sleep ...
- Hold on! Just don't sleep! Stella screamed. And I realized that it had some kind of strong effect on us. Apparently, this terrible creature needed us completely weak-willed so that he could freely perform some kind of his own “ritual”.
“We can’t do anything ...” Stella muttered to herself. - Well, why doesn't it work? ..
And I thought she was absolutely right. We were both just kids who, without thinking, embarked on very life-threatening journeys, and now did not know how to get out of it all.
Suddenly Stella took off our superimposed "images" and we again became ourselves.
- Oh, where is mom? Who are you?... What did you do to your mother?! the boy hissed indignantly. "Get her back immediately!"
I really liked his fighting spirit, bearing in mind the hopelessness of our situation.
“The thing is, your mother wasn’t here,” Stella whispered softly. - We met your mother where you "fell" here from. They are very worried about you, because they cannot find you, so we offered to help. But, as you can see, we weren't careful enough, and ended up in the same terrible situation...
– How long have you been here? Do you know what they will do to us? I asked quietly, trying to speak confidently.
- We recently ... He always brings new people, and sometimes small animals, and then they disappear, and he brings new ones.
I looked at Stella in horror.
- This is a real, real world, and a very real danger! .. This is no longer the innocent beauty that we created! .. What are we going to do?
- Leave. - Again stubbornly repeated the baby.
We can try, can't we? Yes, and grandmother will not leave us if it is really dangerous. Apparently, we can still get out on our own if she doesn't come. Don't worry, she won't leave us.
I would like her confidence! .. Although usually I was far from shy, but this situation made me very nervous, because there were not only us, but also those for whom we came to this horror. And how to get out of this nightmare - I, unfortunately, did not know.
- There is no time here, but it usually comes at the same interval, approximately as there were days on earth. - Suddenly the boy answered my thoughts.
– Has it already been today? - Stella asked, obviously delighted.
The little girl nodded.
- Well, let's go? - she looked at me carefully and I realized that she was asking to “put on” my “protection” on them.
Stella was the first to stick her red head out...
- Nobody! she rejoiced. - Wow, what a horror! ..
Of course, I could not stand it and climbed after her. There really was a real “nightmare” there!.. Next to our strange “place of confinement”, in a completely incomprehensible way, human beings hung upside down in “bundles” ... They were hung by their legs, and created, as it were, an inverted bouquet .
We got closer - none of the people showed signs of life ...
- They are completely "pumped out"! Stella was horrified. “They didn’t even have a drop of vitality left! .. That’s it, let’s run away !!!
We rushed as fast as we could, somewhere to the side, absolutely not knowing where we were running, just to get away from all this blood-freezing horror ... Without even thinking that we could again fall into the same, or the same even worse, damn...
It suddenly got dark. Blue-black clouds rushed across the sky, as if driven by a strong wind, although there was no wind yet. In the depths of the black clouds dazzling lightning flashed, the peaks of the mountains blazed with a red glow... Sometimes swollen clouds were torn apart by evil peaks and dark brown water flowed from them like a waterfall. This whole terrible picture reminded me of the most terrible of the terrible, a nightmare ....
- Daddy, darling, I'm so scared! - the little boy squealed thinly, forgetting his former militancy.
Suddenly, one of the clouds “broke”, and a dazzlingly bright light flashed from it. And in this light, in a sparkling cocoon, the figure of a very thin young man, with a face as sharp as a knife blade, was approaching. Everything around him shone and glowed, black clouds “melted” from this light, turning into dirty, black shreds.
- Blimey! Stella screamed happily. - How does he do it?
- Do you know him? I was indescribably surprised, but Stella shook her head negatively.