Ninel Shakhova
Russian broadcast journalist (1935–2005)

Ninel Shakhova
Нинель Шахова
Born
Ninel Vladimirovna Shakhova

(1935-01-10)10 January 1935
Luhansk, Ukrainian SSR
Died8 March 2005(2005-03-08) (aged 70)
Moscow, Russia
Alma materPhilological Faculty of Moscow State University [cv; ru; sl]
OccupationJournalist
Years active1957–2005
Awards

Ninel Vladimirovna Shakhova (Russian: Нинель Владимировна Шахова; 10 January 1935 – 8 March 2005) was a Russian television journalist. She was a correspondent at the Rodina radio station that broadcast to Soviets living abroad and was then a cultural commentator on the Vremya news bulletin between 1971 and 1992. Shakhova was a recipient of both the Order of the Badge of Honour and the Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR.

Early life

Shakhova was born in Luhansk on 10 January 1935.[1] Her father, Vladimir Grekov [ru], served as a colonel general in the Battle of Stalingrad.[2] Shakhova was a 1957 graduate of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University [cv; ru; sl].[1]

Career

Following her graduation,[2] she began working as a correspondent at the Rodina radio station that broadcast to Soviets living abroad.[3] Shakhova moved into television in 1971.[1] She was a cultural commentator on the Vremya news bulletin on the USSR Central Television and later for the Ostankino Television company.[4][5] Shakhova did televisual essays in which she interviewed subjects such as Mikhail Sholokhov, Galina Ulanova, Elena Gogoleva, Sergei Lemeshev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian among others.[4][6][7] When commercial television was introduced in Russia,[8] she left Vremya in 1992 but she continued to consult television stations and her journalistic career.[6]

Shakhova became an employee of the Cinema and Television Center studio in 1992, producing the programmes Russian Province and My Russia, which was about the culture of Russian people and of Russian cities.[5][9] In the final ten years of her life, she was an expert to the Federation Council on film and television.[5][10] Shakhova was chairwoman of the jury for the First Bratina Television Festival, the organising committee for the Moscow Orthodox Festival Radonezh, and was a jury member for the Voices of History theatre festival.[2] In 2004, she wrote and published the book, People of My Vremya, discussing her work in television and the subjects she encountered.[6][8][9] Shakhova's final work was the 2005 documentary Kaluga Necklace.[2] Her memoirs, After Vremya, were published posthumously in 2010.[11]

Personal life

She died suddenly on the evening of 8 March 2005 while travelling by car to interview the actor Kirill Lavrov in Moscow.[3][10] A memorial service for Shakhova was held on 11 March at the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow.[6] She was buried at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[1]

Awards

Shakhova was a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and the Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR.[1] She was awarded the Order of the Holy Princess Olga [nl; pl; ru; uk] by the Russian Orthodox Church "for the Moral Education of Russians" in 2001.[9][10] Shakhova won the Russian Union of Journalists award twice.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Шахова Нинель Владимировна" [Shakhova Ninel Vladimirovna] (in Russian). Pantheon of Russia. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "В Москве прошла презентация последнего телефильма Нинель Шаховой" [The presentation of Ninel Shakhova's latest television film took place in Moscow] (in Russian). Moscow State University Alumni Club. 28 June 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Скончалась известная журналистка Нинель Шахова" [Renowned journalist Ninel Shakhova has died]. Grani.ru [cs; ru; uk] (in Russian). 10 March 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Умерла Нинель Шахова" [Ninel Shakhova died]. Kommersant (in Russian). No. 41. 10 March 2005. p. 21. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d Shevelev, Igor (10 March 2005). "В Москве скончалась известная тележурналистка Нинель Шахова" [Renowned television journalist Ninel Shakhova has died in Moscow]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d Kuzin, Evgeny (10 March 2005). "Умерла Нинель Шахова" [Ninel Shakhova died]. Izvestia (in Russian). Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  7. ^ "Жизнь и смерть замечательных людей" [Life and death of remarkable people]. Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 8 January 2006. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  8. ^ a b "В Иркутск приехала известная тележурналистка Нинель Шахова" [Famous television journalist Ninel Shakhova arrived in Irkutsk]. Your Irkutsk (in Russian). 17 August 2004. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  9. ^ a b c "Умерла журналистка Нинель Шахова" [Journalist Ninel Shakhova has died] (in Russian). BBC News Russian. 9 March 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  10. ^ a b c "В Москве умерла тележурналистка Нинель Шахова" [TV journalist Ninel Shakhova died in Moscow] (in Russian). NEWSru. 9 March 2005. Archived from the original on 11 March 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  11. ^ Kopylova, Vera (29 December 2010). "Ее "Время"" [Her "Time"]. Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian). Retrieved 2 November 2025.
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