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SCHEME AND RULES OF OPERATION OF THE LEAGUES OF THE INTERNATIONAL KVN UNION

TV LEAGUE MS KVN

Major League- the main league of the International KVN Union. Broadcast on Channel One.
Editors: Dmitry Shpenkov, Mikhail Marfin, Evgeny Donskikh.

Premier League- a television league that opens new faces (teams) for the Major League. Broadcast on Channel One.
Editors: Mikhail Gulikov, Valery Ravdin, Vladimir Kostur (intern), Evgeny Donskikh.

International League- held in Minsk, Belarus. Broadcast on STV and RTR Belarus TV channels.
Editors: Leonid Kuprido, Yuri Kruchenok, Alexander Komarovsky (intern).

First League- held in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan. Broadcast on the TNV channel.
Editors: Vladimir Tararykin, Dmitry Bushuev. League curators: Mikhail Marfin, Evgeny Donskikh.

The composition of television leagues is formed based on the results of the International Festival of KVN teams in Sochi from the teams that qualified for the Second Round of the festival. The decision to distribute teams to these leagues is approved by the president of the KVN MS Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov.

CENTRAL LEAGUE MS KVN

1. Central League of Moscow and Moscow Region, Moscow city.
Editors: Evgeny Donskikh, Oleg Valentsov, Vladimir Kostur (trainee).
2. Central Krasnodar League, Krasnodar - Anapa.
Editors: Mikhail Gulikov, Ilham Rysaev.
3. Central League "Asia", Krasnoyarsk.
Editors: Dmitry Shpenkov, Valery Ravdin.
4. Central Southwest League, Kursk.
Editors: Vladimir Tararykin, Ivan Kulakov.
5. Central League "Volga Region" Ufa - Cheboksary - Tolyatti - Kazan.
Editors: Arkady Dyachenko, Mikhail Stognienko.
6. Central League "Start" Voronezh.
Editors: Leonid Morgunov, Mikhail Maslennikov.
7. Central Ural League, Chelyabinsk.
Editors: Artem Skok, Ilham Rysaev, curator - Mikhail Gulikov.
8. Central Pacific League, Khabarovsk.

Editors: Vitaly Kolomytsev, Evgeny Romantsov.

The central leagues are the main bases for training teams for the MS KVN television leagues.

The editors of the Central Leagues are appointed by the President of the KVN MS Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov.

TTO "AMiK" and the editors of the Major League are in close contact with the directors and editors of the Central Leagues.

The team’s entry into the Central League is recognition of the team’s merits, its level and indicates that the team is seriously involved in KVN and in the future, already next year after the Central League, can qualify for entry to Channel One.

The following teams are eligible to play in the central leagues:
1. Received the “2nd round” and “increased rating” statuses at the International Festival of KVN teams “KiViN” in Sochi.
2. Other teams in the amount of 20% of the total number of participants in the league season (including teams that did not come to the international festival of KVN teams “KiViN” in Sochi) at the discretion of the league editors.

One team in one season cannot play in parallel in two Central Leagues.

If a team is eliminated from the television league season, it can continue the season in the Central League of MS KVN in agreement with the directorate and editors of the league.
In the first stage (1/8) of the Central League season, no more than 24 teams can play.

The Central League does NOT have the right to qualify teams for the semi-finals and finals that have been eliminated from the television league season, as well as by holding additional games and cups.

If a team, based on the results of the qualifying Festival of the Central League, does not qualify for the season of this league, it is recommended to apply to the Official League.
A team has the right to play in one season in the Central League and in the Official League.

At the International Festival of KVN teams "KiViN" in the city of Sochi, participants of television and central leagues perform for 4.30 minutes, while the teams of the Premier League and the Major League, without fail, perform on the first day of the first round, and the champion teams of the First League, International leagues and Central Leagues can intervene in the order of performances of the first round at any convenient time by notifying the Organizing Committee of the Festival for 5 teams.

OFFICIAL LEAGUES MS KVN

1. League “Adygea”, Republic of Adygea.
2. League "Armavir", Armavir.
3. Azerbaijan League, Baku.
4. League "Altai", Barnaul.
5. Slobozhanskaya League MS KVN, Belgorod.
6. League “Ala-Too”, Bishkek.
7. Bryukhovetskaya League, art. Bryukhovetskaya.
8. Bryansk League, Bryansk.
9. Primorskaya League, Vladivostok.
10. League “KVN-Alania”, Vladikavkaz.
11. “Vladimir Rus”, Vladimir.
12. Voronezh League, Voronezh.
13. “League of Small Cities”, Vyshny Volochek.
14. League “KVN. BEL", Gomel.
15. League "Georgia", Georgia.
16. League “Sverdlovsk”, Yekaterinburg.
17. League "Republic", Kazan.
18. League “West of Russia”, Kaliningrad.
19. League "Kuzbass", Kemerovo.
20. League “Vyatka”, Kirov.
21. League “Moldova”, Chisinau.
22. “Moscow Region” league, Korolev.
23. League “KVN on the Yenisei”, Krasnoyarsk.
24. Crimean League, Republic of Crimea.
25. “League of the Nightingale Region”, Kursk.
26. University League, Lipetsk.
27. Moscow Student League, Moscow.
28. Murmansk League, Murmansk.
29. League "Nizhny Novgorod", Nizhny Novgorod.
30. League “Black Sea”, Novorossiysk.
31. League “Siberia-NEXT”, Novosibirsk.
32. League "Siberia", Novosibirsk.
33. Northern League, Nyagan.
34. Omsk League, Omsk.
35. Orenburg League, Orenburg.
36. League “Irtysh”, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
37. League "SURA", Penza.
38. League “Prikamye”, Perm.
39. League "Riga", Riga, Latvia.
40. Don League, Rostov-on-Don.
41. Ryazan League, Ryazan.
42. Arctic League “REAL”, Salekhard.
43. League "Samara", Samara.
44. League "Baltika", St. Petersburg.
45. Nevskaya League, St. Petersburg.
46. ​​Sevastopol League, Sevastopol.
47. League “KVN in Smolensk”, Smolensk.
48. League "CAUCASUS", Stavropol.
49. KVN Youth League of the south of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Sterlitamak.
50. League “Northern Landing”, Surgut.
51. League "Verkhnevolzhye", Tver.
52. League "Tomsk", Tomsk.
53. Tula League, Tula.
54. League "ZAPSIB", Tyumen.
55. League "Ufa", Ufa.
56. Vostok UA, Kharkov.
57. League "Capital", Cheboksary.
58. Transbaikal League, Chita.
59. League “KVN on the Volga”, Engels.
60. Yaroslavl League, Yaroslavl.

The main goal of the Official Leagues is the creation and development of new KVN teams in their region.

The editors of the Official Leagues are approved by the management of TTO "AMIK".

The following teams are eligible to play in official leagues:
1. From their region, who participated in the International Festival of KVN teams “KiViN” in Sochi and did not receive any status.
2. From their region who did not take part in the International Festival of KVN teams “KiViN” in Sochi.
3. Teams from any regions that participated in the International Festival of KVN Teams “KiViN” in Sochi and did not receive any status, or did not participate in the International Festival of KVN Teams “KiViN-2019”, but in a number not exceeding 30% of the total number of teams .

If a team is eliminated from the Central League season, it can continue the season in the Official League from the stage up to the 1/4 finals, inclusive, in agreement with the management and editors of the league.

The official league does NOT have the right to qualify teams for the 1/2 finals and finals that are eliminated from the season of the central and television leagues, as well as by holding additional games and cups.

Teams not participating in the central and television leagues have the right to play in several Official Leagues in one season.

At the International Festival of KVN Teams “KiViN” in Sochi, participants of official leagues perform for 3.30 minutes.
Teams that have not taken part in the MS KVN leagues perform for 3.00 minutes. on the first day of the first round.

SPECIAL STATUS LEAGUES

1. Television All-Russian Junior League KVN, Moscow - Anapa.
2. League of Law Enforcement Structures “Rise”, Moscow - Cheboksary.
3. “Own League”, Tikhvin.

In connection with the increasing incidence of controversial issues regarding copyright, including the use of the same reprises, songs, production numbers in different leagues of MS KVN by different teams, the President of MS KVN Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov signed the “DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF MS KVN” on January 30, 2002 ON COPYRIGHT PROTECTION.” At the KiViN-2003 Festival, amendments to the already existing Decree were adopted (clause 1.3 - in full and clause 2.2 - partially)

Full text of the Decree:

1. ABOUT THE REUSE OF REPRISES, PRODUCED NUMBERS, SONGS.

A reprise (production number, song), once used by the original team in the official MS KVN League, cannot be used in other leagues of MS KVN TO "AMiK" with the exception of two cases:

1.1. If this reprise (production number, song) is reused by the original source team in the event of its transfer to another League of MS KVN (TO "AMiK"), including the Major League of KVN.

1.2. If a team of the Interregional League begins to play in the KVN Major League, it can use material from the teams of its CITY, but only if an agreement is reached with specific teams of its city. Note: currently this paragraph of the Decree applies to 2 more television Leagues: the Premier League (Moscow) and the Higher Ukrainian League (Kyiv).

1.3. Formally, the protection of KVN material is the reproduction of the latter by a team at a game of the Central and Interregional KVN League.

Note. Repetition of material by teams of the same city playing in different Interregional Leagues of MS KVN is prohibited!

2. MONITORING THE EXECUTION OF THIS DECREE.

In order to implement this Decree, the heads and editors of the Interregional Leagues of MS KVN are obliged to:

2.1. Monitor cases of reuse of materials and report facts of violation of the Decree of the President of MS KVN to TO “AMiK”.

2.2. After each game, send to the official KVN website amik.ru (along with the report, coverage) FULL TEXTS of the performances of the teams in your league, regardless of whether the team wants to protect the material or not. The materials will be published on the website amik.ru and from that moment on will be considered protected.

Note. Teams MUST provide the league editor with FULL TEXTS of their performances.

3. LIABILITY FOR FAILURE TO FULFILL THIS DECREE.

Administrative measures will be applied to teams that violate this Decree, up to and including exclusion from the playing roster of the Interregional Leagues, including the KVN Major League. Also, the violating team may be denied registration for the next Winter Festival.

4. SCOPE OF THIS DECREE.

This Decree applies only to teams of the official Interregional KVN Leagues TO “AMiK” (list attached). Cases of official protests from teams playing in Leagues not accountable to TO “AMiK” will be considered separately. Unofficial complaints from fans will not be accepted.

5. VALIDITY OF THIS DECREE.

This Decree came into force on January 30, 2002 and is mandatory for execution in all interregional leagues of MS KVN, which are structural divisions of TO “AMiK”, up to the Major League of KVN. Amendments to the Decree have been in effect since February 1, 2003.

PRESIDENT of MS KVN
A.V. MASLIAKOV

The decree was signed in Sochi
at the KiViN-2002 Festival.
Amendments to clauses 1.3 and 2.2 signed
at the KiViN-2003 Festival.

DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF MS KVN ON THE BAN OF PLUS PHONOGRAMS.

“Starting from the semi-final games of the KVN-2001 season in the KVN Major League, the use of phonograms of the “plus” and “semi-plus” types is prohibited. The exceptions are: a team performance in the “synchro-buffoonery” genre and a recording of the common final song of the programs (Festival in Sochi, Jurmala, etc.).

PRESIDENT of MS KVN
A.V. MASLIAKOV

The decree was signed in Jurmala
at the music festival
"Voting KiViN-2001".

DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF MS KVN “ON PARTICIPATION IN NON-KAVEEN TELEVISION PROJECTS.”

1. KVN teams playing in the official leagues of MS KVN, in the case of inviting their actors to non-KVN television projects of any level, are obliged to notify the management of their league and the AMiK TTO. An individual decision will be made in each case.

2. If the issue of the participation of KVN team actors in non-KVN television projects of any level is resolved positively, a complete restriction is introduced on the use in these projects of team materials voiced in the official KVN MS leagues.

If any of these points are violated, the team will be subject to sanctions up to and including disqualification.

PRESIDENT of MS KVN
A.V. MASLIAKOV

EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS FROM “GET-TO-GETINGS” WITH THE PRESIDENT OF MS KVN

In case of relegation from the league, teams are allowed to transfer and finish the season in a league with a lower status, but only at stages not lower than the quarterfinals. It will not be encouraged for a team to play in several official leagues at the same time during the season.

Gatherings 01/22/2013

First, something that needs to be talked about, something that has been bothering me all season. Previously, we had one “enemy” - Evgeny Vaganych, who was almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that KVN members’ jokes ended up in other mouths.

The interpenetration of jokes from one team to another has not yet become the norm, but it has already gone beyond the limits of chance. Here we must blame everyone - both the teams and the editors. Somehow all this results in an untidy story.

A.V. Maslyakov: I don’t expect applause, but I want to announce the punishments for these borrowings.
1. The team starts the game with a negative asset.
2. The team is disqualified from any stage of any league.
3. If the league in which the team was spotted with someone else’s material is on television, then the audience is informed that the team has been punished and for what.
4. There will be no exceptions - everyone from beginners to Club champions falls under these rules.

On inevitable coincidences of material: such cases will be examined separately. No claims will be made against the teams.

Leonid Kuprido: The decree of the President of the KVN MS is not a constitution, if various nuances emerge and arise, we will finalize it.

A.V.M.: There used to be a lot of jokes in newspapers. We talked to media editors - now some at least write whose joke was published. We do what we can.

L. Cuprido: Each team playing in the league is required to upgrade its material in the search engine. Some teams are too lazy to do this.

A.V.M.: Another problem is that editors are lazy to protect materials and send reports about games. There will be “executions” this season. I wouldn't want them to be, but they will be.

If teams are from the same city, can they make jokes in different leagues?
- No. The only exception is when a city team plays in a TV league. Then she can take jokes from other teams.
A.V.M.: although this is also wrong when a team collects jokes from the region.
A. Chivurin: The only exception is the city. Not the region. We don't steal from Martians.
M. Gulikov: Judging by the performance of many teams, we are stealing from the Martians!

Are there plans to protect material from unofficial leagues on the site?
- No. The system will become entangled in itself. But to avoid such options, guys, write yourself! And there will be no problems.

Gatherings 01/22/2010

Conditions under which a league can become an interregional Amikov league.
- ... Preparation for this takes place in several stages. First. We must understand that in this city there are not only creative traditions, but also the support of the administration. The league has a sponsor, this league can exist at a certain level. The second condition is that the League must agree on the editor. Because in our leagues the main thing is the confidence that the league not only works, the league prepares and trains teams. Therefore, it is necessary to have an editor recommended by TTO AMiK. And thirdly, geography. That is, we must understand that there is no Amic League on a separate piece of land or sea. If there are border areas, and there are 4 leagues, then no one needs it.

Gatherings 01/22/2009

A.V. Maslyakov announced an addition to the Decree of the President of the KVN MS on the protection of copyright. It obliges all teams playing in official leagues to check their own copyrighted material for the possibility of repetition through the amik.ru website database. From now on, each team will be personally responsible for repeating material. Possible punishment ranges from penalty points to team disqualification.

Gatherings 02/12/2005

Do unofficial KVN leagues have the right to release KVN games on local channels?
- ... No.

The first humorous programs on Soviet television began to appear in the 1950s. The prototype of KVN was the program “Evening of Fun Questions,” organized by journalist Sergei Muratov, modeled on the Czech program “Guess, Guess, Fortune Teller.” In the fight for prizes, TV viewers had to answer the presenters’ questions with humor - one might say this was the first “interactive” in the domestic “zombie box”. The broadcast was broadcast live (again, unheard of for those years), but its life 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 for December 31 of last year. But the host of the program, composer Nikita Bogoslovsky, absent-mindedly forgot to mention the newspaper, and therefore crowds of people arrived and burst into the studio, crushing the police officers on duty at the entrance. The broadcast of this “assault” was immediately stopped, and the program was closed by a closed resolution of the CPSU Central Committee itself.

Only four years later, the creator of the Evening of Fun Questions, Sergei Muratov, managed to achieve the publication of a new program - that same KVN in the format of a competition between two student teams. The first presenter of KVN was Albert Axelrod, who later became both a resuscitator and a theater and television director. In 1964, he and Muratov left the program and since then Alexander Maslyakov, a student at MIIT in those years, became the host.

Of course, even in the “thaw” 1960s it was impossible to joke either about the top officials of the party and state, or about communist ideology, but it was completely possible to do without irony over certain manifestations of Soviet reality - for example, the same eternal shortage and unobtrusive service of everything it didn’t work out anyway, and therefore the censorship pressure on KVN only intensified from year to year. At some point, programs began to be broadcast not live, but recorded, and jokes that were questionable from an ideological point of view were cut out. Students were even forced to shave so that the presence of a beard would not create unnecessary allusions to Karl Marx or Fidel Castro. But even in its 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 blew over the country again.

My others, does anyone of you remember what real KVN is? Do you even remember how the abbreviation stands for? Absolutely right, “a club of cheerful and resourceful people”...

Initially - precisely resourceful. Competitions of student teams honing their sense of humor, as they would say now, online. On the stage of student cultural centers 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 their designers. The first television in the USSR, KVN-49, was created in 1949 by Leningrad designers Kenigson, Varshavsky, Nikolaevsky. People are honored to decipher the name as follows: bought it, turned it on, doesn’t work. Which is not surprising: it was no longer collected in the city of Petra, but in the homeland of the guardsmen - in Alexandrovskaya 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 there (with an attached glycerin lens to enlarge the screen), the poetess remembered that in her childhood she also had one at home.

So, student KVN appeared precisely when there was KVN-49 in every (or not every - they went to visit “on TV”!) house. Student KVN appeared in 1961. There was no pre-registration of student meetings. VCRs, even studio ones, remained an unaffordable luxury. KVN was a bright spectacle of live broadcast, filled with impromptu, lively words and sparkling humor. However, such a type of competition as “homework” was also present.

I don’t know whether the satirists wrote specifically for KVN or whether the students pulled out quotes, but Grigory Gorin’s famous phrase “a piano in the bushes” went to the people precisely from the stage of the Television Theater on Zhuravlev Square (“Ostankin” was not yet in sight). By the way, the Television Theater is the former House of Culture MELZ (Moscow Electric Tube Plant, at the Elektrozavodskaya station, naturally). If I’m not mistaken, the phrase about “a piano in the bushes” was heard in the homework of the Gorky KVN team, from the finals of the 1965/66 season.

With the decline of the Khrushchev Thaw, the decline of the KVN era began. Satire and free-thinking were no longer in favor. Programs began to be pre-recorded, then cut up, and such elements of the competition as “greeting the teams” and “homework” began to undergo strict preliminary censorship.

An era of stagnation began, into which KVN no longer fit. The last (before the KVN funeral) was the 1971/72 final. Somehow it happened that a team of Odessa Jews who had not yet left (which was not surprising) and a team of Bashkirs (which was quite surprising) made it to the finals that year. Therefore, the result of the final was predetermined in advance - the Odessa team (team of the Odessa Institute of National Economy) defeated the Ufa team (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 CPSU Central Committee. I remember the father of my classmate at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Oska Galperin, who headed a regional journalistic organization and read not only the Pravda newspaper, told me about it this way in the fall of 1972:

Today in Pravda they finally buried KVN between the lines!

KVN died long and painfully, in convulsions, coming to life only once a year, on April 1st. It was on this day that the participants of the last final held their “Humorina”: the Odessa “Humorina” and the one in which students from Ufa universities and fragments of the Ufa team competed...

Does the current show business called KVN have anything in common with the competition of student teams of the sixties? Perhaps there is nothing connecting, except perhaps Maslyakov... True, from the Odessa team that had been in a lethargic sleep for many years (the pupated “Humorina”), a team of Odessa gentlemen later 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...”

I couldn’t find information anywhere on AMiK which teams were the champions of that very first television KVN, which was closed by a closed resolution of the CPSU Central Committee in 1972. After looking through my archives, I am posting this information here. The seasons were then carried out according to the “autumn-spring” system, in fact, the same way as the academic year.

KVN Champions:

1961/1962 - Moscow Engineering and Construction 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 in Gorky

1966/1967 - KVN teams in Odessa and the 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 (OINH)

I would be very grateful to anyone who can tell you which KVN teams played in these 11 finals.

Absolutely everyone knows what KVN is. The global game, in which not only young people but also older comedians take part, ranks first among all comedy television programs. The KVN team of the Russian Federation takes part in games with other countries. For some comedians, this is just entertainment, but for others, over the years it turns into a profession.

What is KVN?

The most popular TV show with a humorous slant currently ranks first on television. This game is watched by small children, teenagers and adults. A lot can be said about what KVN is and how it gained popularity. But every inhabitant of the planet knows that this is a good way to have a great evening and laugh heartily.

Universities, enterprises, and various educational institutions have the opportunity to take part in KVN. The Major League only accepts the best players, giving them more motivation to create new jokes and improve their performances. The guys create miniatures, skits and interesting performances on their own and this makes quite a lot of people around the world laugh. The main competitions are:

1. Business card. The team of participants is given a specific topic, based on which they must introduce themselves, as well as their own city. Of course, all this should be in a humorous form.
2. Warm up. The jury, opponents and people from the audience ask certain questions to which participants must find the funniest possible answer in a short period of time.
3. Homework (from 3 to 7 minutes, the team must present a story, invented independently, with musical inserts).
4. One song competition (the final stage, where participants choose absolutely any song, remake it in a humorous way and present it to the audience).

In addition, there are also video competitions, as well as biathlon and triathlon. But they are not used in every game. Although the rules there are just as cruel and only professionals in their field can cope with them.

Prototype of transmission

Some time before the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful appeared on the screens, there was a similar program called “An Evening of Fun Questions.” Here questions were asked to the audience and jury members, and, of course, humor was assessed. In Soviet times, it was the most popular and fun program that everyone loved to watch, and many would like to take part in it.

Despite the fact that this program was very popular, it was broadcast only three times. The presenters decided to hold an interesting competition, where viewers had to visit the studio wearing a fur coat and carrying last year's New Year's newspaper. But, unfortunately, they forgot to mention the newspaper when announcing the competition, so the next day the hall was filled with a huge number of people in winter outerwear. After this point, confusion began and the program was closed.

Comedy television programs have always been in first place for families who love to spend time together. Therefore, KVN and its prototype have gained really great popularity.

Presenters

Albert Axelrod was appointed the first presenter of the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful, but three years later he left this game. After him, Alexander Maslyakov took the place of presenter. At that time, he was not broadcasting the program alone, but together with announcer Svetlana Zhiltsova. It was after the arrival of the new host that teams began to compete in the KVN game.

Due to unknown circumstances, the program was closed due to incomprehensible pressure from the ministry on the organizers, but the game soon recovered and began to gain popularity. There is only one presenter left - Alexander Maslyakov. Initially, he came to the game as a student, but now he is already an experienced presenter and comedian.

Rules of the game

Relaxed and fairly simple rules apply to the game. Each KVN team must consist of more than two people, and one of them must be the captain. The game host independently comes up with competitions, adding new ones over time, in which all teams must take part.

Participants must make jokes in each of these competitions and receive jury scores (from 1 to 5). Based on the results of each competition, an average score is assigned. Then they are summed up. And, accordingly, the team with the highest result wins.

Famous participants

All young spectators and teams are interested in what kind of participants were like in the first years of KVN. The Major League is really proud of these people, as the hall always burst into laughter when they came on stage.

• In the period between 1960-80, Yuli Gusman, Gennady Khazanov, Arkady Inin, Mikhail Zadornov became memorable players.
• In the 80s, people made people laugh: Valdis Pelsh, Mikhail Marfin, Sergei Sivokho,
• Since the 90s, Garik Martirosyan, Alexander Pushnoy, Andrey Rozhkov, and Dmitry Brekotkin have become popular.
• At the beginning of the 21st century, Timur Batrudinov, Alexander Revva, Igor Kharlamov, Mikhail Galustyan, Pavel Volya, Timur Rodriguez, Natalya Yeprikyan were remembered on stage.
• In recent years, the public has rejoiced at the appearance on stage of such actors as Olga Kortunkova, Igor Lastochkin, Azamat Musagaliev, Maxim Kiselev, Ivan Abramov, Denis Dorokhov, and many others.

Special games

Playing KVN for the first time is always scary for every participant, because a huge number of people is difficult to take calmly. But this never stopped the guys, and they still continued to go on stage, make the audience laugh and get points.

In addition to the main games, there were also additional ones, that is, special ones:

1. "Voting KiVin" - music festival.
2. Birthday of the KVN game.
3. Summer Cup.

Each of the additional games brought a storm of emotions to both spectators and team members. The best players for a certain time took part here, so the jokes were always funny, and the audience did not have sad expressions.

Champions

What is KVN without champions and favorites? The Premier League, First League, CML League, Pacific League and Siberian League can boast of those people who truly deservedly received awards.

• In 2003, the KVN team “Region-13” from Saransk and “Left Bank” from Krasnoyarsk became champions.
• In 2004 and 2005, the best were “Maximum” from Tomsk and Moscow “Megapolis”.
• The year 2006 was conquered by the members of the Sportivnaya Station team from Moscow.
• In 2007, the Samara team SOK became popular.
• In 2008, the guys from Smolensk “Triod and Diode” had the best position.
• In 2009-2010 The championship places were taken by “Parapaparam” from Moscow, from Minsk and ISU from Irkutsk.
• In 2012, the champions were “Fiztekh” from Dolgoprudny, “Asia MIX” and “Boomerang”.
• 2013 surprised Saratov, the MFUA team, and Scotch.
• 2014-2015 were the hottest years, and the champions were the Georgian team, “Hara Morin”, the Tula region team, the Voskhod team and “People”.

08.02.2012 - 15:09

Everyone knows that we cannot live without humor. On television, this truth was realized a long time ago, and every year more and more programs and series in this direction appear. Unfortunately, quantity does not always translate into quality, but there is a program that has been holding its own for many years and delights us with not just funny, but truly witty and intellectual jokes. It won't be difficult to guess what kind of transmission this is. Of course, this is KVN!

The beginning of time

This game has existed for many years and is so popular that the International KVN Day, which, at the suggestion of the club president Alexander Maslyakov, has been celebrated since 2001, does not need official approval. The date of the holiday was November 8 - the day when the first game of the Merry and Resourceful Club took place in 1961.

The club did not arise out of nowhere: four years before the first game, a program appeared that became the prototype of today's KVN. In 1957, the program “An Evening of Fun Questions” was broadcast, created in the image of 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 live, questions were asked, and the audience answered, and the wittier the better. This was the first program where viewers participated on an equal basis with professionals. The success was stunning.

In the first episode, Nikita Bogoslovsky and Margarita Lifanova became the presenters, and from the second part their place was taken by Albert Axelrod and Mark Rozovsky, who were still students at that time. Spectators were called onto the stage using various techniques, for example, the presenter launched a parachute into the hall and the lucky person who caught it ended up on stage.

The program involved funny drawings, which resulted in a winner being revealed. On the first program, the task was given 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 few winners (twenty people for three prepared gifts), but in third gear there was a more serious misfire...

Following the folk wisdom “Prepare a cart in winter and a sleigh in summer,” it was decided to invite the audience to come to the studio in a sheepskin coat and felt boots. But in our area it is too easy even in the summer, so to complicate the task, it was also necessary to find the newspaper issue dated December 31 of the previous year. But it was precisely this “restrictive” task that was forgotten on air...

At first, everyone was having fun: the most efficient spectators in winter clothes began to burst into the studio; on a warm September day, people in fur coats and felt boots were rushing through the streets on all types of transport and on foot to the Moscow State University building. But soon the crush at the entrance reached catastrophic proportions and it became no laughing matter: the people who broke into the studio turned into an uncontrollable crowd, the decorations flew down, the broadcast had to be interrupted... The screensaver “Break due to technical reasons” appeared on thousands of television screens.

Actually, in case the live broadcast was disrupted, a backup feature film was prepared, but then one behind-the-scenes circumstance arose. The young man in charge of the film asked program director Ksenia Marinina for a date and took with him the keys to the safe where the backup films were kept. So it turned out to be 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.

Intellectual football

The new program, edited by Elena Galperina, who proposed to revive the spirit of the “Evening of Fun Questions” at her own risk, was called KVN, which, in addition to the well-known transcript, was also the brand of the KVN-49 TV. At first, the program was hosted by Svetlana Zhiltsova and Albert Axelrod, who was eventually replaced by Alexander Maslyakov. He soon turned into the only presenter who has been and remains the face of the program for many years.

Two teams were invited to the first game, which took place on November 8, 1961 - InYaz and MISI. Each team had 11 people and 2 reserves. The participants walked onto the stage to the sound of a football march. At first, KVN was a quiz, where without preparation you had to answer a number of special questions, preferably correctly, but also with humor. Most of the program was impromptu; only the topic of the homework was known in advance, which also did not appear immediately. Gradually, the range 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 competition when they were required to dance in support of their team. And one team has a wonderful dancer, but their opponents have no one to show off. Suddenly a red-haired guy comes on stage and starts dancing without any sense of rhythm. This was already funny in itself, but when, to the host’s question: “Where did you study?”, the red-haired one replied, “I’m a nugget,” the audience could not straighten up with laughter.

The popularity of the program grew, and along 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 jokes, of which there were more and more in the program, could not remain neutral. The teams were increasingly ironic about Soviet reality and ideology. And these were the jokes that were the most popular. Therefore, after some time, the program began to be broadcast on television screens in recordings: “inappropriate” jokes were cut out, censorship increased, and then the KGB became interested in the program.

The texts began to be carefully reviewed, the captains were summoned to the authorities, it was forbidden to go on stage with a beard - ridicule of Lenin or Marx, about Jews - not allowed, with a burr - not allowed...

There were also ill-wishers within the team itself: the head of 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 competitions, according to Guzman, took on the character of “who will spit the furthest” and “who will grunt the loudest,” and then a wave of rumors spread about KVN people who send diamonds to Israel. Soon the transfer 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 as street teams. Such popular love is not easy to destroy even with the most skillful techniques. Increasingly, voters began to ask Lapin, as a member of the Supreme Council, questions about the fate of his favorite program.

3-4 years after the closure, Bella Sergeeva, who was the director of the program, received an offer to start broadcasting KVN again. To this proposal, Sergeeva replied: “I will agree only if they return Gyulbekyan and give me Maslyakov and Zhiltsova, but I can’t live without them.” “Lapin is asking very much,” Yuri Zamyslov persuaded Bella, but the director was inexorable: “Yes, let him at least get on his knees.” Lapin did not kneel, the composition of the creative team was not restored, and therefore the question of reviving KVN was postponed for many years.

With the beginning of perestroika, the opportunity arose to restart the program. Under the old sign, it was planned to create a new program in which everything should be new. However, the “cool” innovations did not last beyond the third season. Only the new song of the Club, “Again in our hall...”, written by V.Ya. Shainsky to the verses of B.A. Salibov, took root, but otherwise the development of KVN followed an evolutionary path.

Starting over again was not so easy: 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 Civil Engineering Institutes aired on May 25, 1986 and since then continues to delight us with new jokes and helps us live.

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