Igor Kondratyuk is a popular showman, TV presenter and producer in Ukraine. Fame came to the man thanks to the television program "Karaoke on the Maidan", which he has been a permanent leader for over 20 years.
Biography of Igor Kondratyuk
Igor Vasilievich was born in March 1962 in the village. Foothills, Kherson region. At the age of 17, the young man graduated from the Kalanchak secondary school with a gold medal. As a teenager, he worked as an assistant harvester.
After leaving school, Igor Kondratyuk entered the physics department of Kiev National University, choosing a specialization - solid state optics. In 1984, after graduation, the young man became a researcher in the Department of Molecular Biophysics.
It is known that while working at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Igor Vasilievich co-authored with other scientists more than 100 scientific papers. A year later, Igor Kondratyuk (photo of a man is in the article) became a member of the television club “What? Where? When?".
The beginning of a career on television
Starting at age 29, Igor began working on TV. Initially, the man was an editor, a showman for working with the public, and an assistant to the TV presenter in the television programs “Brain Ring” and “Love at First Sight” on the Ostankino channel. Then Kondratyuk was one of the organizers and television presenter of the Brain Ring and What? Where? When? ”, Which took place among the famous personalities of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus on the UT-1 channel.
A year later, for 2 years, Igor Kondratyuk led a television game called "5 + 1", which was broadcast on the UT-3 channel. From 1995 to 1996 he was the host of the television program "Program for Tomorrow", it was shown on the channel UT-1. In parallel with working on TV, Kondratyuk was able to defend a dissertation for the degree of candidate of biological sciences.
In the late 90s, Igor Vasilievich acted as a co-author and host of the “Toys for the Street” program on Channel 31 in Moscow.
Karaoke and Chance
From 1999 to the present day, Kondratyuk was entrusted with the role of the non-replaceable TV presenter of the Karaoke on the Maidan program. During the existence of the entertainment program, it was broadcast on the channels “1 + 1”, “Inter” and “STB”. After some time, the presenter tried himself as the presenter of the TV program "Karaoke on the Arbat", which was shown on the TVC channel.
Over the next 5 years, Kondratyuk was the TV presenter and editor-in-chief of the LG Intellect Show “Eureka!” Program, which was broadcast on the Inter channel. When the program "Karaoke on the Maidan" began to gain popularity, Igor Vasilievich decided to make it a logical continuation in the form of the television program "Chance", the producer and co-author of which he was for 5 years (from 2003 to 2008).
Since 2006, the man became the producer of the TV show "Star Duet", which was shown on the TV channel "Inter", and since 2007 - the author and producer of the program "American Chance" for 1 + 1, which was shot in the United States of America.
For 8 years, starting in 2009, Igor was a permanent judge of the project “Ukraine has Talent”. Along with participation in the previous project, a man of about 5 years old acted as a judge of the song project “X-Factor”.
Rumors about Igor’s romance with ward
During refereeing on the music project "X-Factor" for a long time there were rumors about the upcoming wedding of Aida Nikolaychuk and Igor Kondratyuk. However, there was no official confirmation of this information (Nikolaychuk won the show in 2013, after which the media started talking about a romantic relationship between Kondratyuk and the girl).
Aida, in turn, actively denied this information, explaining this by the fact that she already has a loved one whom she was going to marry. And Kondratyuk has excellent relations with his family in the family, which he would hardly want to destroy.
Personal life of Igor Kondratyuk
A special place in the biography of Igor is occupied by his relatives. Kondratyuk is a good father and exemplary spouse who prefers to spend all his free time with his family.
Igor Vasilievich is married to Alexander Gorodetskaya. In the past, a woman was closely associated with the accounting field, at the moment she is a financial director. Kondratyuk and his wife Alexandra have three children: two sons and a daughter.
The eldest son of Igor Kondratyuk, Sergei, worked as an administrator on the TV show "Dancing for you", now he helps dad in the TV program "Karaoke on the Maidan". An average son named Danila is studying abroad in Poland. Daughter Polina is interested in tennis, dancing and music.
Awards and Honors
First of all, Kondratyuk’s merits include television awards, of which 6 are the national Teletriumph awards. In particular, in 2003, Karaoke was recognized as one of the best music programs, and Eureka was recognized as the best television project for children. For two years, from 2004 to 2006, Chance was recognized as the best entertainment television program.
Igor Vasilievich, thanks to participation in the intellectual project of the club “What? Where? When? ”As part of the team of Andrei Kozlov, is the owner of the Crystal Owl team prize. In addition, the showman is the winner of an international competition entitled “Favorites of Success”, which took place in 2005. The man received the award in the nomination "Leading show programs of the year."
It is known that Igor Kondratyuk was engaged in producing V. Kozlovsky, N. Valevskaya, A. Voevutsky, P. Tabakov, I. Voronova, O. Kirichuk, as well as the musical group Aviator. Currently, the showman is not involved in this type of activity.
Kondratyuk is an ardent football fan. On weekends, he and his wife sometimes travel abroad to watch UEFA Cup matches in which Dynamo Kyiv is participating.