Valdis Pelsh is a TEFI

TEFI

TEFI is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994. TEFI is presented in various sectors , such as television shows, notable people in the television industry, journalists, channels...

-awarded Soviet and Russian television presenter

Presenter

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 of Latvian descent and Zolotoi Grammofon-awarded musical artist. Valdis Pelsh currently works as a screen

Film

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 actor and manages child programms subdivision on Channel One

Channel One (Russia)

Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...

. He hosted several popular game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

s, such as Ugadai Melodiu, Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette (game show)

Russian Roulette is an American game show created by executive producer Gunnar Wetterberg that ran for two seasons on Game Show Network from June 3, 2002 to June 13, 2003. It was hosted by Mark L. Walberg, with Burton Richardson announcing. Todd Newton hosted an April Fool's Day episode in 2003....

and Rozygrysh.
Pelsh is a former vocalist and percussion instrument

Percussion instrument

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 player in Neschastny Sluchai

Neschastny Sluchai

Neschastny Sluchai is a Russian alternative rock band that was formed in 1983 by students of Moscow State University Valdis Pelsh and Alexei Kortnev. The name translates into English as " accident", although the band is often called simply The Accident. Despite being popular in Russia, the band...

band, which was founded by him and Alexei Kortnev in 1983.

Career

Valdis Pelsh graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Philosophy. He firstly appeared on television as a KVN

KVN

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...

 player among MSU team with his friend Alexei Kortnev (1987). Together they also participated in Oba-na

Oba-na

Oba-na! was a Soviet and Russian comedy television program.The first release of Oba-na! was on 19 November 1990.Oba-na! was one of the most progressive and courageous comic programs...

television program. In 1983 they formed an alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Neschastny Sluchai, which Pelsh left in 1997.

In 1995 Vladislav Listyev

Vladislav Listyev

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 invited him to work on musical game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 Ugadai Melodiu, a Russian version of Name That Tune

Name That Tune

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aired on Channel One. The show quickly gained popularity: while airing it was watched by 96% of people, therefore Valdis Pelsh is mentioned in The Guinness Book of Records as the most popular Russian television personality. He was awarded with TEFI in 1997. After the death of Sergei Suponev

Sergei Suponev

Sergei Yevgenyevich Suponev was TEFI-awarded Soviet and Russian television director, children's television presenter and a mananger of child programms subdivision on Channel One.-Biography:...

 in 2001 Pelsh manages child programms subdivision on Channel One.

Shows hosted

• Ugadai Melodiu
• Ugadaika
• Russian Roulette
  Russian Roulette (game show)
  Russian Roulette is an American game show created by executive producer Gunnar Wetterberg that ran for two seasons on Game Show Network from June 3, 2002 to June 13, 2003. It was hosted by Mark L. Walberg, with Burton Richardson announcing. Todd Newton hosted an April Fool's Day episode in 2003....
  
  
• Vlastelin Vkusa
• Eti Zabavnye Zhyvotnye
• Rozygrysh
• Odni doma

Filmography

• 1998: Na boykom meste
• 2000: Brother 2 (as himself)
• 2005: The Turkish Gambit
  The Turkish Gambit (film)
  The Turkish Gambit is a 2005 Russian film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's popular novel The Turkish Gambit featuring detective Erast Fandorin. It was directed by Dzhanik Faiziyev, and starred Yegor Beroyev, Marat Basharov and Olga Krasko. Akunin adapted his own novel...
  
  
• 2007: Zolushka.ru (as himself)
• 2007: Lubov morkov
• 2008: Snezhniy chelovek

External links

Neschastny Sluchai official website Valdis Pelsh at the Channel One

Channel One (Russia)

Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...

.