Kirill Kiknadze: short biography

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:54

Journalism is not for the lazy or the faint of heart. This is especially true for the sports direction, where a true professional is formed over the years, using, among other things, his own life experience. A striking example of such a master is Kirill Kiknadze, whose biography will be discussed in detail in the article.

Basic information

The future outstanding and well-known television worker today was born on December 4, 1967 in the hero city of Moscow. Kirill Kiknadze received a complete secondary education in one of the capital's special schools, where a number of subjects were taught to schoolchildren exclusively in English. Of course, such a chic educational base opened the door for the guy to one of the most prestigious universities in the country - Lomonosov Moscow State University. He entered the Faculty of Journalism.

Studentship for a young man lasted from 1984 to 1991. At the same time, in 1986 - 1988, the young man served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR in one of the most elite military branches - the border. The troops at that time belonged to the structure of the all-powerfuland the all-seeing KGB, whose scope included the protection of the state border.

Coming into journalism

In 1989, Kirill Kiknadze became the head of the country's first youth news agency called StudInform. And literally three years later, a promising employee switched to television, where he ended up in the editorial office of the Arena sports program on the RTR channel.

On the television screen, Kirill made his debut in the Golden Spur program, which, by the way, was then hosted by his own older brother named Vasily.

Transition to NTV

In 1993, he received a personal invitation from the leadership of the NTV channel to become an observer and presenter of the Segodnya Sports Program Service. For two years (from 1994 to 1996), Kirill Kiknadze was the author and main host of the program "In Search of Adventures". At the same time, in 1995, he got the opportunity to do an internship at the Air Force, which he successfully took advantage of.

Over time, Kirill Alexandrovich made an independent decision to close his own project and actively plunged into the creation of a series of documentaries. In the period from 1997 to 2005, all these works were shown on the NTV and NTV-Plus Sport channels.

Creative Quest

In the spring of 2001, Kirill Kiknadze, due to disagreements with the authorities of NTV, was forced to stop his cooperation with the channel and left for TV-6. And along with the presenter, several more journalists left. Throughout the year, from 2001 to 2002, Kiknadze hosted Sports News on MNVK TV-6Moscow.”

However, in May 2002, a native of Moscow again became an employee of NTV, where until August 2004 he was the host of sports news in the TV show "Today". In parallel with this, he was an employee of the Country and World program. In addition, he often prepared reports for other information projects of the channel.

Besides this, Kirill was also entrusted with covering the Olympic Games and five Camel Trophy extreme trips. Moreover, in the spring of 2008, Kiknadze was among the torchbearers of the relay to move the Olympic flame of the Summer Games to Hainan Island.

Continuing career

For four years, from 2007 to 2011, Kirill Kiknadze, a sports journalist who is respected in the professional environment, headed the information service of the NTV-Plus Sport Online channel.

Since the end of 2015, a Muscovite has been working in parallel on the Match TV channel. Together with Anastasia Luppova, he also led the Sports Interest program. The journalist works in a similar position in the Sports Conspiracy project from January to April 2017.

Since the fall of 2017, Kirill has become the sole author and host of a documentary cycle called "The Road to Korea", which was dedicated to the preparations for the Olympics in this Asian country.

Starting from the first working day of 2018, Kiknadze began his cooperation with the TNT1 channel, where he was entrusted with being a sports commentator and TV presenter of sports news in the Novosti program. Also Kirill Alexandrovichcurates sports broadcasts and programs about a he althy lifestyle.

Private life

Kirill Kiknadze, for whom family has always been important, is the son of the famous sports journalist Alexander Vasilyevich Kiknadze, who lived from 1923 to 2002.

Kirill's older brother, Vasily, was born in 1962 and is also a sports journalist and media manager.

The first wife of Kirill Alexandrovich was Marina Krinitskaya, who in the past was the director of NTV programs. The couple met in 1995 and got married on December 9 of the same year. In 2003, a replenishment took place in the family - a daughter, Anastasia, was born. However, the couple eventually divorced.

The second wife of Kirill Alexandrovich Kiknadze is Elmira Efendieva, who previously served as a line producer of the directorate of public broadcasting of the NTV channel. Now she hosts Business News on the Today program.