Dmitry Cherny

Manizha (full name Manizha Dalerovna Sangin (née Khamraeva), born July 8, 1991 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR). July 8, 1991, Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, USSR) is a Russian singer of Tajik origin, independent musician, songwriter and performer, director of music videos, public figure in the fight against domestic violence, participant in the Eurovision 2021 international song contest, ambassador of the Gift of Life charity fund (since December 2019), first Russian Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Refugee Agency (since December 2020).

According to the results of the national viewer SMS voting held on March 8, 2021 live on Channel One, she represented Russia with the song Russian Woman at the 65th international song contest Eurovision 2021, which was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in the final, where she took 9th place.

Ukrainian singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer, author and performer of her own songs and instrumental music.

Maria Tchaikovsky was born on October 27, 1986 in Sumy. She received her first music lessons from her mother Irina, a pianist, choral soloist and conductor. And Tchaikovskaya's grandfather, mom's dad Leonid, was a descendant of Nikolai Lysenko and once worked as a soloist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Lviv Prikarpatsky Military District.

At the age of 8 Maria enters musical school № 3 in Sumy and finishes the first class of the teacher Nelly Voronovsky, who notices the talent in the girl and advises to enter a specialized school.

There was no such school in her native city, so at the age of 9 Maria and her mother moved to Kharkov. At the specialized music school in Kharkov the future singer falls in with the teachers Irina Krivonos and Elena Kolesnikova, under whose guidance at the age of 11 wins her first International Competition for Young Pianists. After that, she became an active participant and winner of international festivals - competitions, and the school graduates with honors.

According to Tchaikovskaya, these women energized her with their talent. "With Irina Alexandrovna, I played Bach's F Minor Concerto in the entrance exam for another class - a great result, a powerful start for a child, for his faith in his strength. And Elena Lvovna was incredibly charming on the piano and inspired by her boundless love of music and professional performance of works of art". Maria lived at the time in a dormitory at the school. She has an absolute musical ear, thanks to which she has the ability to instantly play any music she hears on the instrument. Even as a child, Tchaikovsky had the ability to write music, but it was not until high school that she began to produce songs.

Her first work was written under the impression of the American melodrama "Autumn in New York". After watching it, the girl went home and, as she thought, repeated the music from the movie on the piano. Later, she revisited "Autumn" and was surprised to find that her tune and the melody from the movie did not match at all. That's how Tchaikovsky realized she had written her own song. Interestingly, Maria had never sung or dreamed of a singing career until that moment. According to Tchaikovsky, "After hearing others sing my work, I realized that I lacked that special sound of my feelings inside me - my songs made me sing."

While still in high school, Maria toured extensively with leading orchestras in Ukraine. Once at a festival in Feodosia, Maria Tchaikovsky performed "Burlesque" by Miroslav Mikhailovich Skoryk. After which the author came up to her and said laughing that he had never heard his Ukrainian "Burlesque" played so quickly and virtuoso. The maestro offered Maria to become a soloist of the Lvov Chamber Orchestra, where he was conductor and leader. The artist remembers that time of creative cooperation with particular warmth and joy.

After school, Maria Tchaikovskaya enters Kharkov Conservatory, which she finishes at once in two departments: classical music - the teacher Vladimir Mikhailovich Ptushkin, and jazz - the teacher Sergei Petrovich Davydov.

On the next day after graduating from the Conservatory Maria receives a sailor's passport and becomes a jazz and classical pianist of a big jazz band Regent Art Orchestra and soon she goes on a six-month tour to Europe.

Mikhail Vrubel (Russian: Михаил Александрович Врубель; March 17, 1856 – April 14, 1910, all n.s.) – a 19th–20th century Russian painter who worked in all genres of art, including painting, graphics, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art. In 1896, Vrubel married the famous singer Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel whom he regularly painted.

Soviet historian Nina Dmitrieva [ru] compared Vrubel's artistic biography to a three-act drama with prologue and epilogue, while the transition between acts was rapid and unexpected. The "Prologue" refers to his earlier years of studying and choosing a career path. The "first act" peaked in the 1880s when Vrubel was studying at the Imperial Academy of Arts and then moved to Kiev to study Byzantine and Christian art. The "second act" corresponded to the so-called "Moscow period" that started in 1890 with the painting "The Demon Seated" and ended in 1902 with "The Demon Downcast" and the subsequent hospitalization of the artist. The "third act" lasted from 1903 to 1906 when Vrubel was suffering from his mental illness that gradually undermined his physical and intellectual capabilities. For the last four years of his life, already being blind, Vrubel lived only physically.

In 1880–1890, Vrubel's creative aspirations did not find support of the Imperial Academy of Arts and art critics. However, many private collectors and patrons were fascinated with his paintings, including famous maecenas Savva Mamontov, as well as painters and critics who coalesced around the journal "Mir iskusstva". Eventually, Vrubel's works were exhibited at Mir Iskusstva's own art exhibitions and Sergei Diaghilev retrospectives. At the beginning of the 20th century, Vrubel's art became an organic part of the Russian Art Nouveau. On November 28, 1905, he was awarded the title of Academician of Painting for his "fame in the artistic field" – just when Vrubel almost finished his career as an artist.

Manuel Locatelli Cavaliere OMRI (born 8 January 1998) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Juventus, on loan from Serie A club Sassuolo, and the Italy national team.

After coming through the club's youth system, Locatelli made his professional debut with AC Milan, helping them win the 2016 Supercoppa Italiana. He moved to Sassuolo in 2018, before joining Juventus in 2021.

Locatelli represented Italy internationally, participating in Italy's victorious UEFA Euro 2020 campaign.

Alessandro Mastalli (born 7 February 1996) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie C Group C club U.S. Avellino 1912.

Club career

Mastalli is a youth exponent from Milan. He made his Serie A debut at 24 May 2015 against Torino F.C.. He replaced Andrea Poli after 76 minutes in a 3–0 home win.

At the start of the 2015–16 season, he moved to Swiss club Lugano on a one-year loan deal, but he moved back to Milan in January 2016.

On 14 July 2021, he signed a two-year contract with Avellino.

Savely Viktorovich Kramarov (Russian: Саве́лий Ви́кторович Кра́маров; 13 October 1934 – 6 June 1995) was a Soviet, Russian and American actor. He acted in at least 42 Soviet films, and later appeared in several more after his immigration to the United States.

Savely Kramarov was born 13 October 1934 to Jewish parents: father Viktor Savelyevich Kramarov (Виктор Савельевич Крамаров), a prominent Moscow attorney, and mother Benedikta Solomonovna "Basya" Kramarova (née Volchek) (Бенедиктa Соломоновнa "Бася" Крамарова (Волчек)). When young Savely was only three years old, the elder Kramarov represented some defendants in a widely publicized Soviet secret police case. Within a year Kramarov's's father was himself the victim of a "Stalinist purge"—his crime, representing his clients too vigorously. Arrested and tortured to confess, Kramarov's father was sentenced to a term of eight years in the Soviet Gulag. Savely's mother was forced to divorce his convict father, and mother and son lived for a time in a communal apartment. Before Viktor Kramarov's prison term was up, young Savely's mother died, leaving him effectively an orphan. By a stroke of luck, she had managed to register him as Russian, not Jewish, on his domestic Soviet passport. Savely was once allowed to see his father prior to the elder Kramarov's exile in Biysk. During this meeting, his father, practically a stranger to him, told Savely that his Jewish faith that had sustained him in prison. In the 1950s, the once prominent attorney died in exile Kramarov spent the remainder of his childhood in poverty, living with relatives, mainly his maternal uncles. During this time, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis; a Jewish physician helped him back to health.

Seeking to follow in his father's footsteps with a career in law, Kramarov quickly found that door closed for the son of an enemy of the people. Instead Kramarov accepted an offer to technical school for forestry science. It was around this time Kramarov started acting. Kramarov did not attend formal acting school, at the State Theatre Art Institute, until 1972, well after achieving film stardom. At the same time as his late schooling for acting, he took up yoga, which attracted negative attention from the Soviet authorities.

Soviet stage and film career

Kramarov's first serious acting work was on stage in the late 1950s, in the lead role of Vasily Shukshin’s Vanka, How are You Here. Soon Kramarov was invited to act in Soviet cinema. His first film role was as Soldier Petkin in They Were Nineteen (Im bilo devyatnadtsat) (1960). By his second film My Friend, Kolka!, Kramarov was well on his way to Soviet stardom. His goofy persona (in part a natural result of his being cross-eyed) delighted audiences. And he was a director's dream, dependably turning his lead roles into film-making gold. At the end of his life, Kramarov was asked to identify his favorite films he made; he named My Friend, Kolka!, The Elusive Avengers, The Twelve Chairs, Gentlemen of Fortune, It Can't Be!, and Big School-Break.

But for all his fame and wealth, Kramarov recalled, his life was not whole. His religious identity learned from his family, which he had to hide in the Soviet Union, weighed on him. In 1979, he became a practicing Orthodox Jew; and he actively practiced his faith the rest of his life.

Emigration application and end of his Soviet career

It was at the height of his Soviet fame and fortune when Kramarov, in 1979, startled the Soviet authorities with his application for emigration. By this time he had made 42 films and was one of the Soviet Union's most popular film stars. His application rejected, Kramarov's films were suppressed nationwide; his film career was dead. He found his only outlet to continue acting was a theatre of refuseniks, where the passports of prospective audience members were checked on arrival at a performance.

Not giving up hope, Kramarov next took up a campaign in Western news media to secure his coveted exit visa, going so far as to write to then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, as from "one actor to another." The Reagan letter was read multiple times on Voice of America radio.

Upon finally being allowed to leave on 31 October 1981, Kramarov became persona non grata in the Soviet Union, like all celebrities considered traitors or enemies of the state. His name was removed from credits of all the films that he made so successful. Recalling a newly Kramarov-less Soviet Union, Oleg Vidov, another Russian actor who emigrated after Kramarov, noted: "The government took all of his posters down from the walls. They didn't want to have to explain why he left; it was easier just to forget."

American film career and later life

Kramarov achieved only moderate success in American cinema, playing small Russian roles. Americans know him best, probably, for his role as a Soviet KGB handler in Paul Mazursky's Moscow on the Hudson, starring Robin Williams. Kramarov returned to his motherland only once, in 1992, following the break-up of the Soviet Union, as the guest of honor at a Russian film festival. After moving to Los Angeles in 1992, Kramarov missed the forests surrounding his native Moscow. He bought a home in a wooded area in Forest Knolls, Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he found freedom. In early 1995, Kramarov's American career was taking off; he had just landed a lead role in a new film.

Death

In March 1995, Kramarov underwent what is normally routine surgery to remove a bowel tumor. As unexpected complications, he suffered debilitating strokes and eventually endocarditis. Kramarov died at Pacific Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco on 6 June 1995, age 60. He was survived by his wife Natalia Siradze, as well as his daughter from a previous marriage, Basya (Бася) Kramarov.

Thanks to the personal contributions of fellow former Soviet exiles of Kramarov's including artist Mihail Chemiakin, a unique gravestone containing "casts of [Kramarov's] comedy masks, scripts, [and] make-up brushes," and his framed photograph was placed at the Jewish cemetery, Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, California, in 1997. Of Kramarov, his rabbi, Joseph Langer, said, "He was a sincerely believing person, humble and kind"[3] and "[He] was a holy goofball."

Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov (Russian: Леонид Вячеславович Куравлёв; 8 October 1936 – 30 January 2022) was a Russian film actor. He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.

Life and career

Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a poor working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909—1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitrievna Kuravlyova (1916—1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk Oblast at the Russian North where she continued working as a hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally returned to Moscow.

In 1955 Leonid Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and took part in his diploma film From Lebyazhye They Report. In 1961 they both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in 1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considers to be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for him that he later named his son after Vasily Shukshin.

The role of Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Shveitser's comedy The Little Golden Calf based on the book by Ilf and Petrov became the next step in his career: he managed to create an unforgettable sparkling image of a naive petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967), antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin's Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in Pyotr Todorovsky's The Last Victim (1975).

Since the 1970s he started appearing in three to four films per year. Even though Kuravlyov was adept at playing serious dramatic roles, he is still best known for his leading roles in top-grossing comedy movies such as Afonya (1975) by Georgiy Daneliya (15th highest-grossing Soviet film with 62.2 mln viewers), Leonid Gaidai's Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973, 17th highest-grossing film with 60.7 mln viewers) and It Can't Be! (1975, 46th highest-grossing film with 46.9 mln viewers), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) by Gerald Bezhanov (56th highest-grossing film with 44.9 mln viewers) and others.

According to fellow Russian actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, after being tipsy, Kuravlyov openly spoke about his negative attitude towards the leadership of the Soviet Union. She recalled that, drunk, he had opened the window at her house and had shouted to the whole street that he hated the Soviet regime. She had feared that "the police would come and take everyone away as rebels."

During the late 1990s he hosted a popular TV programme The World of Books with Leonid Kuravlyov where he talked about new book releases. In two years it was closed and then relaunched with new hosts. In 2012 he was awarded the IV class Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".

In 2014 Kuravlyov along with 100 other Russian members of culture signed an open letter in support of Vladimir Putin's position regarding Ukraine and Crimea.

Kuravlyov was a devoted Christian, member of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In his last years Kuravlyov lived in a nursing home where he was diagnosed with dementia.[10] In January 2022 he was hospitalized with pneumonia.[10] Kuravlyov's son claimed that the tests for COVID-19 were negative.[10]

Kuravlyov died from pneumonia on 30 January 2022, at the age of 85.

Mattia De Sciglio (Italian: [matˈtiːa de ʃˈʃiʎʎo]; born 20 October 1992) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Serie A club Juventus and the Italy national team.

He made his professional debut for Milan in 2011, after several seasons in the club's youth system, and subsequently became a regular in the line-up, being able to play as either right or left back, winning two Supercoppa Italiana titles. He joined Juventus in 2017, winning a domestic double in his first season with the club, followed by two more consecutive Serie A titles and a Supercoppa Italiana.

At international level, De Sciglio made his senior debut in March 2013 and he was selected in the Italian squads for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup (where he won a bronze medal), the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016.

Ciro Immobile Cavaliere OMRI (born 20 February 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Lazio and the Italy national team.

Immobile began his career at Sorrento. In 2009, he was purchased by Juventus, and was later loaned out to three Serie B clubs, including Pescara, with whom he won the league title as the top-scorer, before moving to Genoa in 2012. After a season with the club, he moved to Juventus' rivals Torino. At Torino, he won the Capocannoniere award for the top scorer in Serie A. After his breakout season at Torino, he was sold to German club Borussia Dortmund for around €18 million in 2014, where he won the DFL-Supercup, before moving to Spanish club Sevilla in 2015. In 2016, he returned to Torino on loan, and was later sold to Lazio in July of that year. In his second season at Lazio, he won the Capocannoniere for a second time, with 29 goals in 33 games. The 2019–20 season was the most prolific of Immobile's career; he equalled the record for most Serie A goals in a season with 36, and won a third Capocannoniere title and first European Golden Shoe, given to the top scorer in Europe. Immobile has also won a Coppa Italia and two Supercoppa Italiana titles with Lazio. He is currently Lazio's highest all-time leading goalscorer.

Immobile made his debut for the Italian national team in 2014, and was included in the squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2016, and UEFA Euro 2020, winning the latter tournament.

Antonio Conte Cavaliere OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈkonte]; born 31 July 1969) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.

Playing as a midfielder, Conte began his career at local club Lecce and later became one of the most decorated and influential players in the history of Juventus. He captained the team and won the UEFA Champions League, as well as five Serie A titles, among other honours. He also played for the Italy national team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000, where, on both occasions, Italy finished runners-up.

His managerial career started in 2006, leading Bari to a Serie B title, and Siena to promotion from the same division two years later. He took over at Juventus in 2011 and won three consecutive Serie A titles before taking charge of the Italian national team in 2014 until UEFA Euro 2016. He then became Chelsea manager and led them to the Premier League title in his first season in charge, then winning the FA Cup in his second season but being dismissed as they finished fifth in the league. Conte joined Inter Milan a year later, leading the team to the UEFA Europa League final in his first season, then next year winning the 2021 Serie A title before stepping down due to mutual consent. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in November 2021.

Conte is credited with the repopularisation of the 3–5–2 formation after it had seen very limited use since its heyday at the 1990 World Cup.[9]

Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera (Catalan: [rəf(ə)ˈɛl nəˈðal pəˈɾeɾə], Spanish: [rafaˈel naˈðal paˈɾeɾa];[4] born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), has been ranked No. 1 in the ATP rankings for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-endYear-End No. 1 five times. Nadal has won 2021 Grand Slam men's singles titles, anthe most in history. Nadal has won 62 all-timeof his 90 ATP Singles titles on clay, including a record shared with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. His 13 French Open titles in particular are a record at any tournament. Nadal's dominance on clay is also highlighted by his winning 62 of his 89 ATP singles titles on clay, includingand 26 of his 36 Masters titles. His 81 consecutive wins on clay is the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.

From childhood through most of his professional career, Nadal was coached by his uncle Toni. He was one of the most successful teenagers in ATP Tour history, reaching No. 2 in the world and winning 16 titles before his 20th birthday, including his first French Open and six Masters events. Nadal became No. 1 for the first time in 2008 after his first major victory off clay against his rival, the longtime top-ranked Federer, in an historic Wimbledon final. He also won an Olympic gold medal in singles that year in Beijing. After defeating Djokovic in the 2010 US Open final, the 24-year-old Nadal became the youngest man in the Open Era to achieve the career Grand Slam, and also the first man to win three majors on three different surfaces (hard, grass and clay) in the same calendar year. With his Olympic gold medal, he is also one of only two male players to complete the career Golden Slam in singles, the other being Andre Agassi.

Nadal was one of the most successful teenagers in ATP Tour history, reaching No. 2 in the world and winning 16 titles before his 20th birthday, including his first French Open and six Masters events. Nadal became No. 1 for the first time in 2008 after his first major victory off clay against his rival, the longtime top-ranked Roger Federer, in a historic Wimbledon final. He also won an Olympic gold medal that year in singles in Beijing. After defeating Novak Djokovic at the 2010 US Open final, then 24-year-old Nadal became the youngest man in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and also the first man to win three Majors on three different surfaces (hard, grass and clay) in the same calendar year. With his Olympic gold medal, he is one of only two male players to complete the Career Golden Slam in singles, the other being Andre Agassi. From 2005 to 2017, Nadal was coached by his uncle Toni Nadal.

In the next decade, Djokovic became Nadal's primary rival. The two have faced each other 58 times (including nine major finals), the most in men's Open Era history. Since Djokovic defeated Nadal in three consecutive major finals between the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and 2012 Australian Open, Nadal has struggled at Wimbledon and has not won another Australian Open. He has continued to dominate the French Open, winning four consecutive titles a second and a third time, while also winning three more US Open titles. He equalled Federer's record for the most major men's singles titles at the 2020 French Open.

Since 2010, Nadal has continued to dominate at the French Open, winning at least four consecutive titles twice, while also winning three more US Open titles and another Australian Open title. He surpassed Djokovic and Federer's record for the most Major men's singles titles at the 2022 Australian Open, where he also became the second male player in the Open Era to complete the double career Grand Slam.

Nadal is the only left-handed member of the Big Three. One of his main strengths is his forehand, which he routinely hits with extremely heavy topspin at difficult angles. He is one of the best at breaking serve, regularly appearing among the tour leaders in percentage of return games, return points, and break points won. Nadal has won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award five times, and was the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2011 and 2021. Representing Spain, he has an Olympic gold medal in both singles and doubles, and has ledbeen theinvolved Spanishin five Davis Cup team to five titles. Nadal has also opened a tennis academy in Mallorca, and is an active philanthropist.

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro, all of whom also served as head writers. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast 279 episodes over 12 seasons.

The show originally centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny (Kaley Cuoco), a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). Over time, supporting characters were promoted to starring roles, including neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), microbiologist Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch), and comic book store owner Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman).

The show was filmed in front of a live audience and produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions. It received mixed reviews throughout its first season, but reception was more favorable in the second and third seasons. Despite early mixed reviews, seven seasons were ranked within the top ten of the final season ratings, and it ultimately reached the no. 1 spot in its eleventh season. It was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series from 2011 to 2014 and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series four times for Parsons. In total, it won seven Emmy Awards from 46 nominations. Parsons also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series in 2011. In 2017, the series spawned a prequel series, Young Sheldon, based on Parsons' character Sheldon Cooper; it also airs on CBS.

How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated as HIMYM) is an American sitcom, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for CBS. The series, which aired from 2005 to 2014, follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in New York City's Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recounts to his son, Luke, and daughter, Penny, the events from September 2005 to May 2013 that led him to meet their mother. How I Met Your Mother is a joint production by Bays & Thomas Productions and 20th Television and syndicated by 20th Television (now Disney-ABC Domestic Television).

The series was loosely inspired by Thomas and Bays' friendship when they both lived in Chicago. The vast majority of episodes were directed by Pamela Fryman, who directed 196 episodes out of 208. The other directors were Rob Greenberg (7 episodes), Michael Shea (4 episodes), and Neil Patrick Harris (1 episode).

Known for its unique structure, humor, and incorporation of dramatic elements, How I Met Your Mother was popular throughout its run. It initially received positive reviews upon release, but reception became more mixed as the seasons went on. It was nominated for 30 Emmy Awards and won ten. In 2010, Alyson Hannigan won the People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actress. In 2012, seven years after its premiere, the series won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Network TV Comedy, and Neil Patrick Harris won the award for Favorite TV Comedy Actor twice.

Klim Alekseevich Shipenko (born 16 June 1983, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Eagle Award for Best Feature Film (for Salyut 7 in 2018 and for Text in 2020). He directed the highest-grossing Russian film in Russia and the CIS (over 3 billion rubles in box office receipts), Holop.

In 2021 he became a member of the space flight in the framework of the scientific and educational project "Challenge".