In Senkevich biography

BYOGRAPHY SIMILAR PERSONS BYOGRAPHY TV presenter, doctor, scientist and traveler Yuri Senkevich could replenish the ranks of Soviet astronauts. But fate ordered so that he spent most of his time on the ground: he made an expedition to the Antarctic, conquered Everest, crossed the ocean on a small shipbuilding with round Heyerdal, who called him a younger brother.

Yuri Aleksandrovich told about all his adventures in his famous program “Travelers Club”. About what stories the audience of the programs could hear, as well as about who was walking through life with Yuri Senkevich, in the material of Teleprogramma. Childhood Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich was born on March 4 of the year in the Bayan Tumen now Choibalsan, the territory of modern Mongolia in the family of a doctor and nurses.

But for the first time, he began to think about travel after the case when one day on vacation in the Sukhumi military sanatorium found a piece of white marble with an incomprehensible inscription on the seashore. Then the boy showed the find to familiar military pilots who advised him to turn to archaeologists. Seeing the subject, archaeologists came to the conclusion that this is an ancient marble stele of the 5th century BC.

Now it is located in the Abkhaz State Museum. Yuri Senkevich in childhood. Photo: Medical activity after school was taken from open sources, Yuri Senkevich decided to continue the family dynasty and entered the Military Medical Academy. Kirov in Leningrad. And at its end, he was appointed head of the first -aid post in the military unit of the Tver region. But in the year the first flight of a person in space took place.

And Senkevich attracted space Dali. And in the year, the summer Yuri got into the staff of the Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine of the Ministry of Defense. Senkevich began his career in this industry with the post of junior researcher, but then he grown to the head of the educational specialized center of medical and biological training of astronauts. The scientist devoted a lot of time to the medical and biological support of both people and animals for controlled flights into space, investigated the mechanisms of impaired physiological functions of living organisms in zero gravity.

Yuri Senkevich also took part in the preparation of a research doctor for space flight and participated in this experiment himself. And for this you need to certainly send a doctor with animals into space to see: can you make injections how to make intravenous infusions, how to operate in space, etc. But at the first stage we had to send only animals there. Then, in M, the dogs flew breeze and coal, which your humble servant personally operated, implanted them with electrodes into a carotid sinus, cut off their tails, etc.

Yuri Senkevich in his youth. Photo: The expedition to Antarctica was taken from open sources, but Senkevich was not destined to fly into space. When he was preparing for this event, he was offered to go to the Antarctic to study the behavior of the body in the extreme conditions of the North. In this expedition, Yuri Alexandrovich stayed a year. The team consisted exclusively of harsh men.

As the scientist said, the biggest problem for many of them was separated from their favorite women. I understand this C I understand that nothing can be given to him, it will be even worse. The next day, he receives a radiogram, completely different, all glows: “Guys, well, give the sport! Subscribe to our Telegram channel "Star dust"! However, according to Yuri Senkevich, it was the most difficult thing to find the opportunity to be alone with himself.

After all, participation in a scientific expedition, whatever one may say, is a team game. I later watched this on Tigris, when we scattered where, into some kind of nook, so as not to see each other. This, it turns out, is very important, ”said Yuri Senkevich in the same interview with Pravda. The work of the expedition participants was observed by the whole world.

And its materials formed the basis of the dissertation of Yuri Senkevich for the degree of candidate of medical sciences. By the way, also during this dangerous trip he was a special correspondent for the magazine Friendship of Peoples and kept a waybill. See also: “He turned to the“ Travel Club ”: the young wife of Makarevich revealed the secret of their acquaintance expedition with Tour Heyerdal a big event in the life of Yuri Alexandrovich can be called his participation in the expedition of Tour Heyerdal.

Interestingly, Senkevich was in it thanks to ... Nikita Khrushchev. The Soviet Secretary General met the famous traveler when he was on a diplomatic visit to Norway. Nikita Sergeyevich gave Heyerdal a barrel of black caviar, and he decided in gratitude to invite a representative of the Soviet Union on his journey. The thing is that the tour Heyerdal was recruiting an international composition to his team and thereby wanted to show that people of different cultures, faiths and political beliefs will be able to get along in one team.

The main condition for participation in the expedition was knowledge of the English language.Yuri Senkevich owned English, because once after the war his mother Anna Kupriyanovna brought home a woman who fainted on the street. Subsequently, it turned out that she knew several languages. Thanks to this woman, Yuri learned the language of Shakespeare. So, in the team of Tour Heyerdal, who went to sea in a boat called “Ra”, designed according to the ancient Egyptian drawings in the Republic of Chad from the Ethiopian papyrus, included American pilot Norman Baker, a builder of the Republic of Chad Abdullah Jibrin, Italian video operator Carlo Mauri, photographer from the united Arab Emirates Georges Suriaal, Mexican anthropologist Santiago Henvest and monkey Safi.

Yuri Senkevich and Tour Heyerdal. Photo: Frame from the program “Travelers Club” and on May 25 of the year, the Tour Heyerdal team sailed from the shores of Morocco. By the way, before the expedition, the famous traveler urgently advised Yuri Senkevich to write a will. After all, the expedition participants went to the Atlantic Ocean almost on a paper boat. But in the first expedition, the team did not reach its goal.

And after overcoming 5 kilometers, she sank. However, a year later, the tour Heyerdal again equipped the expedition and this time reached Barbados. And seven years later, Yuri Senkevich went to the expedition equipped with Heyerdal in the Indian Ocean on the Tigris reed boat. Travelers started from the coast of Iraq, sailed through the Persian Gulf to Pakistan, and from there they got to the banks of Africa to the Red Sea.

However, the expedition did not reach the goal due to the armed conflict in Somalia. The tour of Heyerdal and Yuri Senkevich, despite the summer difference in the age of Heyerdal, was older, was friends all his life. Together they drowned and swam together. In addition to the fact that he was an excellent scientist, he was a very thoughtful and very serious person who has been engaged in the same thing for a long time: almost his entire long life he made extraordinary decisions and always came out of the winner, even from the most difficult life situations, ”said Yuri Senkevich about the tour Heyerdale.

Moreover, Senkevich received the invitation to be the host of this program, along with the post of head of the department of scientific, medical and technical information at the Institute of Biological Problems. By the way, in fact, the program about film travel has existed since the year. And its first presenter was Vladimir Schneidnerov. And only after his departure did Senkevich take this place.

Moreover, at first he appeared in the program studio as a guest who shared his impressions of joint swimming with Tour Heyerdal. The audience warmly accepted it. And it was decided that Yuri Alexandrovich would be a permanent presenter of the “club ...”. Yuri Senkevich. Photo: a frame from the program “Travelers Club” subsequently in his program, Yuri Senkevich spoke not only about traditions about cultures of different countries, but also shared his own experience and life stories.

The Travelers Club program has repeatedly received international awards, including TEFI and Crystal Globe. In the year, Yuri Senkevich again visited the North Pole, and then decided on the conquest of Everest. Yuri Aleksandrovich released three books of essays and autobiography “Journey Little Life”. In total, the famous traveler visited countries. In the year, Yuri Senkevich was elected deputy of the Moscow City Council of Moscow City Duma.

And in the year he became an academician of the Russian Television Academy. Yuri met his personal life when he was resting in Sochi. He happened to get to the performance of the “Birch” ensemble, and a pretty girl named Galina Petrova sunk into the soul of the guy. But this novel did not last long, because at that time Yuri was not yet ready for family relations.

The couple had a daughter Daria, who, after graduation, chose the profession of a cardiologist. However, in the end, Yuri Senkevich and Irmchalov divorced. The cause of their gap was the loaded schedule of both spouses. Yuri Senkevich with his wife Ksenia. Photo: Taken from open sources for the second time, Yuri Senkevich married a linguist of the Union of Theater Workers Ksenia Mikhailova.

She had a son from her first marriage Nikolai, who became a doctor, and later took the post of NTV general director. The departure from life in the spring of Yuri Senkevich fell into a difficult accident, as a result of which the doctor and the presenter broke two ribs. But given the state of the car, many said that the scientist was born in a shirt. However, the consequences of the car accident made themselves felt: Senkevich suffered two heart attacks.

But at the same time, a tireless traveler never complained about health. On the morning of September 25, he went to work. In the car, Yuri Alexandrovich became ill after the host got to his office, he called an ambulance. While the doctors were driving, Senkevich became better. Photo: Global look Press, however, when the doctors arrived, Yuri Alexandrovich came to them with the words: “Guys, it’s even awkward that I bought you.” At that moment, he lost consciousness.

Doctors launched the heart of Yuri Senkevich five times, but a miracle did not happen.The famous TV presenter and traveler is buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. After the departure of Senkevich, the “Travelers Club” was closed, since he was really indispensable. In Moscow there is a museum dedicated to Yuri Senkevich, where the evenings of his memory and meetings of followers take place.