Person

Leonid Parfyonov

Acting · Born 1960-01-26 · Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]

Russian veteran journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many popular documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is best known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was subdued by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere.

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  KVN Major League

  Self - Judge

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  Fort Boyard Russia

  Self - Host

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  Evening Urgant

  Self

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  Namedni

  Self

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  Old Songs about the Main Thing

  Producer

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  Karamora

  Emperor

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  Без души

  Гость

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  The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

  Self (uncredited)

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  Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных

  2012

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  Russian Georgians. Part 1

  himself (presentor)

• 2022Russian Georgians. Part 2himself (presentor)
• 2022KaramoraEmperor
• 2021Pocket of RussiaScreenplay
• 2021Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poisonself
• 2021In Qvevri Veritas
• 2021Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife
• 2021Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
• 2020Listyev. A New Lookhimself
• 2020Russian Georgians. Part 1himself (presentor)
• 2019Без душиГость
• 2017Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.Himself (Presenter)
• 2017Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.Himself (Presenter)
• 2016Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.Himself (Presenter)
• 2014The Term. Beginning of a Big StorySelf (uncredited)
• 2013Russia in BloomHimself (Host and Narrator)
• 2012Eye of GodHimself (Presenter)
• 2012Evening UrgantSelf
• 2012Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
• 2011Boris GodunovSchelkalov
• 2011Generation PTV Journalist
• 2011He Came to Give Us Freedom
• 2010Zvorykin-MurometsNarrator
• 2009Gogol the BirdHimself (host)
• 2006And Personally Leonid IlyichNarrator
• 2005Bashlachev. The Flight of DeathSelf
• 2004O World, You Are a Sport!Writer
• 2000Russian EmpirePresenter
• 2000Still WatersHimself
• 1999The Age of Nabokov
• 1998Fort Boyard RussiaSelf - Host
• 1997NamedniSelf
• 1997Намедни 1961—2003. Наша эра
• 1997Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
• 1996Old Songs About the Main ThingWriter
• 1995Old Songs about the Main ThingProducer
• 1988Children of the 20th CongressHost
• 1986KVN Major LeagueSelf - Judge