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Katerina Gordeeva was born on March 23, 1977 in Rostov-on-Don. The girl was named that way because Alexei Tolstoy's trilogy "Walking through Torment" was her grandmother's favorite book. Katerina's ancestors come from Latgale, one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia.
The relationship with her parents, according to Katerina, was not going too well.
She lived not far from the director Kirill Serebrennikov, studied with him at the same school. Since then, Serebrennikov and Gordeeva have been friends.
After graduating from school No. 5 (with an in-depth study of mathematics) with honors, Katya decides to go to Paris to study at the faculty for foreigners at the Sorbonne, attends literary courses there. However, the events that took place then in her native country forced her to return. Gordeeva enters the Russian State University to study philology and journalism, but attends classes there only during 1994. In 1999, Katerina graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in journalism, and in 2005 received a second degree in art history at the Leonardo da Vinci School in Italy.
In 2015, I bought a plot of land in Latvia. On this basis, she was able to issue a Latvian residence permit.
Career:
Since childhood, Katya dreamed of becoming a pediatric surgeon, which is why she worked part-time in medical institutions in the summer. When she was only thirteen years old, she got a job in the Department of neonatal pathology of the Rostov NIIAP. Horrified by what was happening there, Katya wrote a text about her experience, which was later published in a local newspaper. That's how then a very young girl realized what she wanted to do in life.
There were refusenik children in the big box. They were shown in every way how insignificant they were. Nannies threw bottles of food on pillows, not caring that the kids reached out, nurses were exhausted in the writings of terrible names, I, a 13-year-old girl, was instructed to put catheters at night ... All this made a strong impression. As a result, I wrote a note to the newspaper. The resonance was very powerful — everyone stirred, and I had a feeling that a word could change the world. It was 1991," the journalist recalls.
Soon after that, Katya became a correspondent for the weekly "City N". At the same time, she managed to work with director Kirill Serebrennikov and Alexander Rastorguev when she was an employee of the Rostov Television Youth Association.
Then the budding girl is noticed by the management of the company VID, and Katerina from 1995 to 1996 works in the program "Theme", performing editorial duties at first, and then she is engaged in writing and shooting her materials. Then Gordeeva works in the TV program "Vzglyad".In 1997, she created the program "Born from Childhood", which was broadcast on NTV and TV Center.
For the next couple of years, she was a correspondent for the Seventh Day program, worked with journalist and TV presenter Lev Ivanovich Bruni.
In 2001, she switched to TV-6. This activity had to be combined with work in the Russian Service of the BBC, where Katerina was better known as Maria Rasskazova.
Having managed to work on almost all domestic channels (RTR, TVC, TV6, TVS), Gordeeva begins cooperation with the NTV channel. At first it was behind-the—scenes work (writing eyeliners, helping correspondents with editing), since 2003 she has worked as a correspondent for the NTV Information Service, and since 2006 she has been the author of the program and a special correspondent for the Profession — Reporter program.
In the future, she shot several more documentaries that received recognition from the audience. Katerina told the audience about Russian transplantologists ("Life on Loan", 2005), about the last minutes of Saddam Hussein's life ("Saddam. Invitation to execution", 2007), about palliative medicine ("Leaving, turn out the light", 2009), about such tragedies as the crash of the Nevsky Express (Nevsky, 2009).
In 2012, a three-part documentary "Defeat Cancer" was released, which Katerina Gordeeva released together with Sofia Gudkova and Sergey Ivanov. Laima Vaikule, Emmanuel Vitorgan, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Mikhail Gorbachev told Gordeeva about their struggle with oncology. Eminent oncologists from all over the world commented on them. The author wanted to dispel all the myths about this disease, and as a result, her project received a "Laurel Branch" for educational work.
In April of the same year, Katerina left NTV: the TV channel broadcast the documentary "Anatomy of Protest", in addition, mass layoffs began. The journalist decided that her ideals were more important than a stable salary. Gordeeva managed to find a new job very quickly: already in May she got a job at the RIA Novosti agency, where she came up with the idea of the Open Lectures project.
The premiere of the film by Katerina Gordeeva and director Dmitry Altshuler-Kurchatov "Girls are flying" was released in December 2012. The project about the leisure of teenagers in the Russian Federation received a prize from UNESCO.
Gordeeva's book "To Defeat Cancer" was published in May 2013. Its circulation was 10 thousand copies. In December of the same year, the journalist leaves RIA Novosti.
Gordeeva's next significant film is about the children of besieged Leningrad. The premiere of the two-part project "Voices" took place in January 2014.
Since April 2014, together with her husband, Nikolai Solodnikov, she has been organizing discussions on cultural and socio-political topics — "Dialogues".
In 2017, together with Leonid Parfenov, she created a new project on oncotematics. The documentary "#I HAVE PASSED" told about girls and women who have faced breast cancer, as well as about their path to recovery.
Together with her husband, she hosted the TV show "Heads and Tails. Family".
In 2018, Chulpan Khamatova's novel "Time to Break Ice" was published, which was born from her conversations with Gordeeva. Katerina is also a member of the board of trustees of the foundation founded by Khamatova, "Give Life".
Since September 2020, he has been releasing the show "Tell Gordeeva" on YouTube. At various times she interviewed Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Manizha, Oksana Vysotskaya, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Lia Akhedzhakova, Elizaveta Boyarskaya and many others. The overwhelming number of her guests are women, and it is no coincidence.
"Women themselves have done and are doing a lot to discriminate against women. They don't believe in themselves, and even more so in the fact that some other aunt can do something," says Gordeeva and adds: "There are things about which you understand: if you don't do it, no one will do it. And you do."
Personal life
In 2014, Katerina got married to journalist and presenter Nikolai Solodnikov. There are four children growing up in the family: Alexandra (2010), George (2011), Yakov (2015) and Elizabeth (2016).
Interesting facts
The tape "Leaving, turn off the light" became the first project about palliative medicine shown at the level of federal channels.
Gordeeva's film "Joseph's Children" about the descendants of the poet Brodsky was not shown on television. But he was well received at several festivals.
Knows English, Italian and French.
She loves the work of Marina Tsvetaeva
Cooperates with such charitable foundations as "Give Life", "Butterfly Children" and "MoiMio", and in the children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" is a member of the board.
A feminist.
Supports the idea of transplantology.
She was close friends with Elizaveta Glinka.