International KVN Day (08/11)





The idea of the holiday was proposed by the president of the international KVN club, Alexander Maslyakov, and the date of the celebration was chosen in honor of the anniversary of the first game of the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful, aired on November 8, 1961. Then teams from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages and the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute were invited to the studio on Shabolovka for the game.

At first, the program was a fun quiz, and gradually competitions began to appear in it. Today, the rules of the game in KVN are familiar to many viewers and fans — greeting, warm-up, STEM, BREEZE, music competition, homework — are just some of the components of this sparkling and active game.

For KVN players, the game — is their second job, a little business, and probably fate. For KVN — viewers, a bright and unforgettable show. But on this holiday, all of them —, both KVN players and — viewers, devote time to their favorite game, regardless of age, profession, social status and income.

By the way, many former KVN players today are famous figures in show business and cinema, including: Yuliy Gusman, Gennady Khazanov, Leonid Yakubovich, Alexey Kortnev, Mikhail Zadornov, Valdis Pelsh, Timur Batrutdinov, Mikhail Galustyan, Garik Martirosyan and many others.



Postcard November «8 — International KVN» Day Story «Sausage at a distance»

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