He is beautiful, cheerful and handsome. All this can be said about one of the most popular kaveanschikov of recent years, the captain of the team "Odessa Mansi" Sergei Sereda. Having started a successful career in show business with a performance at the Cheerful and Resourceful Club, he continues to remain in the public eye today.
Do you remember how it all began...
Sergei Sereda was born, perhaps, in the most fun city in the entire post-Soviet space - in Odessa. As today he loves to give gifts to his viewers and fans, so his parents made a surprise just in time for the New Year, having been born on December 24 on the eve of 1990.
He speaks warmly of Odessa today, calling him a city that you cannot really tell about, no matter how you try. You have to come to it, take a walk along the streets, feel its spirit, and it’s best to be born. How did Sergei Sereda. His biography is closely connected with this city.
Career at KVN
The first glory came to KVN when Sergey became the captain of the Odessa Mansi team. The team appeared due to the merger of the two teams "Santech" and NoStress. Having an asset in many cups and medals of city competitions in KVN, the teams decided to create a national team of the city. Old Odessa kaveenshchiki reacted to the idea positively. They began to provide support, look for bases for rehearsals, campaign sponsors, in general, they took on the maximum trouble so that the children could be engaged exclusively in creativity.
In 2012, Odessa citizens became champions of the Krasnodar and First Ukrainian Leagues and the next year won the right to play in the Major League.
In the Major League
The first season was unsuccessful, the team finished last at an early stage. But the next year, the already experienced kaveenshchiki demonstrated what they are capable of in reality.
In the 1/8 finals, the team left third place, losing only to the national team of Murmansk and the Tyumen Union. At the first stage, the teams prepared short videos to greet their cities. The video shot by the Odessa Mansi team was especially remembered by the fans and the jury with unique Odessa humor.
But in the ¼ finals, the team won, 2 tenths points ahead of the Fiztekh team. Throughout the game, these were the main competitors of Odessa. At first, the games were led by the physicists, in the captain’s competition Sergey Sereda also took only the second place, losing to Georgy Gigashvili from Dolgoprudny one tenth point.
The benefit of the inhabitants of Odessa was a music competition in which they showed a number about a married couple who lives as in Oleg Gazmanov’s song “Sailor”. The jury won over the performance, the judges gave the “Mansi" victory. So for the first time since 2002, the Ukrainian team took first place in the game of the Highest League of KVN.
True, the career of Odessa residents in KVN ended on this. The team refused to participate in the semifinals, although it did not break up after that. On the official website of the KVN community, it was reported that Captain Sergei Sereda personally phoned Alexander Maslyakov and referred to financial difficulties and the lack of a sponsor. Although many then considered this decision political, related to events in the east of Ukraine.
On the big screen
Having left the air of Channel One, the Odessa team, led by their captain, did not say goodbye to their fans. Sergey even participated in the Ukrainian version of the intellectual game “What? Where? When?" as part of a show business team and Studio Quarter-95. True, the team lost - 3: 6.
With the Kvartal-95 Studio, a well-known creative group in Ukraine (also made up of kaveanschiks), active cooperation continued after that. Together with the most prominent team members - Alexander Stankevich, Grigory Gushchin and Levon Nazinyan - Sergei starred in the comedy series "Country U" and "Tales B".
Of particular success was the first project, which became an adapted sketch of the popular English show "Little Britain". A truly stellar line-up has gathered in the series “Country U” - the best players of the Ukrainian KVN teams Dnipro, the Team of the Blondes of Ukraine, Vinnitsa Peppers, and, of course, Odessa Mansi.
The series takes place in various large cities of Ukraine. Sergey got the role of a typical Odessa resident Kostya, who since childhood has been living in a typical Odessa courtyard with bosom friends. Critics write about them that they are as different as import prices. However, at the same time in the know about all the events in the country and in the world. Ready to discuss them, almost from dawn to dusk.
In 2016, this topic was developed in a separate series “Once Upon a Time in Odessa”.
Heart affairs
Not so long ago it became known about the romance between the famous singer Erica and the Odessa comedian. Sergey Sereda himself spoke about this. The personal life of the couple immediately interested many fans of the team.
Acquaintance happened almost by accident. Sergey and Erica became the co-hosts of the program on the music channel. Erica herself admitted that a sense of humor subjugated her in the gentleman, this is her erogenous zone, and the experienced kaveenschik had more than enough of it.
Relationships began in a truly romantic way. Erica came to Odessa to her friend to see the city. However, a friend on the eve had a hard rest in karaoke and did not meet the singer at the station. She had to call the only person she knew in this city - Sergey, who immediately arrived half asleep, put her in the best hotel, and paid all the expenses. This was the beginning of the relationship.