Alexey Pimanov: biography and personal life (photo)

The whole country knows the Russian journalist, producer, director and TV host Aleksey Viktorovich Pimanov. His author's project "The Man and the Law" gathers millions of people from the screens.

Alexey Pimanov - biography

A well-known TV presenter was born on February 9, 1962 in Moscow. Since childhood, the boy devoted a lot of time to sports, taking a great interest in football and hockey. At one time Alexei Pimanov even tried to play in "Locomotive", where he became a candidate for the master of sports. Today he often remembers how, coming back from training, he knocked and clinked his skates on the steps, literally falling from his feet with fatigue.

In his youth, Alex liked to play guitar, especially when the family, as was customary at that time, celebrated a holiday at a table, whether it be the Eighth March or the New Year.

After graduating from school, the future famous journalist entered the technical university of communication. In 1989 he received a diploma, and then continued his studies at Moscow State University. In 1992 he received his second specialty as a journalist.

Carier start

Alexei Pimanov got a job at the television center, where he started with the duties of technology. His first serious post is a video engineer. Then he began to engage in carrier activities, and from 1989 he moved to the editorial of public and political projects on Central Television, starting the host of the program called "Steps".

Since 1990, Aleksei Viktorovich was appointed special correspondent of VIDA. Then for two years he was engaged in his own program "Behind the Kremlin Wall", in which he was both a leading and a director.

Since 1993, Pimanov has headed the studio "Resonance" at Gosteleradio. And two years later, in 1995, I tried myself as a producer, taking on such programs as "Sports News" and "Football Review", "Seven Days of Sports" and, finally, "The Man and the Law". Soon Alexey Pimanov, having headed the TC "Ostankino", became its general director and permanent leader.

Producer activity

On the account of the famous TV presenter about a hundred documentaries, where he acted as a director and scriptwriter. Since 2004, he started producing multi-series tapes, where he was simultaneously in two positions. These were the films "Zoya", "Alexander Garden", as well as "Gypsies", "Hunting for Beria", "Zhukov" and others. Among his works there are also full-length pictures, such as "Three days in Odessa" or "A man in my head".

Journalism in the first place

Thanks to his main profession, Alexei Pimanov got an opportunity to try his hand both in directing and in politics. But first of all he calls himself a journalist.

Nothing was easy for him. At the beginning of his career, when he did not have any useful acquaintances, not even connections, he had to deal with the system more than once. As a reputed journalist today Pimanov can say that people of his profession with open arms are not expected anywhere. The right to exist in journalism has to be proved every day. Alexei Pimanov, whose biography is very versatile, only gets angry at the difficulties arising in life, believing that they make him move on.

Currently, the journalist is the author of several programs. In addition, he produces twelve projects created by his television company. The most famous of them are Lubyanka, Man and Law, Secrets of the Century, Health, Army Store, etc. Today, Ostankino is one of the largest providers of TV programs for The First.

Personal life

The famous TV presenter is married for the third time. His first marriage took place at a very young age, when he went to the registry office with Valery Arkhipova, an economist by profession. Soon they had a son, Denis, who today has already graduated from the director's department of the Moscow State University and is working in one of his father's projects. And recently Pimanov appointed him chief director of his beloved program "The Man and the Law".

But this marriage was destined to disintegrate. Ten years later Alexey Pimanov, whose personal life always stood for him in the background, married Valentine Zhdanova, the editor of the Central Television. After marriage, the husband took the husband's surname. It became known to viewers after joint programs with the husband "Kumira" and "Woman's World", as well as the cycle of programs "Behind the Kremlin Wall". From this marriage Pimanov's daughter Dasha was born, who also followed in the footsteps of her parents. After graduating from the Institute of Television and Radio, she became the author of a series of documentary films entitled "The Birth of a Legend", appearing on the First Channel.

Alexey Pimanov and Olga Pogodina

But the second marriage of the fifty- two- year-old TV presenter, producer, filmmaker and politician disintegrated. He divorced Valentina to marry the actress Olga Pogodina.

Coupled this pair of their teamwork. About five years ago, they together filmed a movie called "A Man in My Head". Alexey was a director, and Olga acted as one of the producers, besides she played the main role. Ready to work the film crew presented even in a women's prison. The idea belonged to Olga. Moved by a noble desire on the eve of the Eighth March holiday to somehow support those women who found themselves behind barbed wire in a difficult situation, she then persuaded her colleague to go there.

Later, when Olga was asked how she works with Pimanov, because he is very strict, she joked that good movies are born only in love! But then the public thought that Pogodin had in mind their creative union, since the romantic component of the relationship was not advertised by the couple.

The service novel gradually grew into a beautiful family union. Alexey Pimanov and his wife did not arrange any wedding celebrations. They secretly signed and did not tell the press about changes in their personal lives.

Olga Pogodina does not like to advertise her private life. In 2007, she married, but a few years later her marriage broke up.

Rumors or Reality

For a long time, the relationship between Pogodina and Pimanov was perceived by the public only as rumors. After all, the marriage of the TV presenter with Valentina seemed to many to be strong and prosperous. He told about the changes in the life of Alexei his son Denis. It was he who confirmed that his father is now married to actress Pogodina. Aleksei Pimanov, whose children perceive divorce as his personal affair, with the second spouse has spread very intellectually: without quarrels and scandals.

Political activity

Alexey Pimanov was a member of the Public Chamber of 2010-2012 convocations. In addition, he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Hural of the Republic of Tuva. In 2013 he became a member of the Federation Council of this republic and a member of the Defense and Security Committee. However, in October of the same year, the senator, a part-time journalist, resigned in connection with his transfer to another job. Pimanov did this on his own, thereby proving how much his profession means to him.

Interests and hobbies

The well-known TV presenter continues to play football and hockey as well as in childhood. He is familiar with many famous athletes. And when he goes out on the ice with Fetisov and Kasatonov, sometimes his skill surprises them.

Pimanov plays well and tennis. In addition, he is fond of political science and history, loves animals and often gives his wife flowers, sometimes even bunks. In his house there are two dogs and a cat.

In 2012, in the ranking of incomes, according to the magazine Forbes, Pimanov, along with his wife in the list of families of Russian officials, took the one hundredth place.