KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday…
Alexander Maslyakov
Self - Judge, Self - Host
Created by
Alexander Maslyakov
Top cast
Alexander Maslyakov·Yuli Gusman·Konstantin Ernst·Valdis Pelšs·Leonid Yarmolnik·Igor Vernik·Mikhail Galustyan·Pelageya Khanova