Yury Dud

Yury Aleksandrovich Dud (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Дудь; born 11 October 1986) is a Russian sports journalist and YouTuber. He was editor-in-chief of Sports.ru from 2011-2018 and since 2018, has been Deputy Director-General. In 2017, he launched his YouTube channel vDud (Russian: вДудь) where he interviews famous figures from Russia and other post-Soviet states.

Yury Dud
Personal information
Born (1986-10-11) October 11, 1986
Potsdam, East Germany
EducationMoscow State University
OccupationJournalist, interviewer
Websitehttp://yurydud.ru/
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers8.65 million
(22 January 2021)
Total views1.28 billion
(22 January 2021)
100,000 subscribers 2017
1,000,000 subscribers 2017

Biography

Dud considers himself to be of Ukrainian origin and Russian by identity. He was born in East Germany and has lived in Russia since the age of 4.[1]

Since 2001, he worked in Russian newspaper Izvestia as a freelance journalist, and became a staff journalist at the age of 16.[1] In 2008 Yuri Dud graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism.[1]

In 2007, he worked in sports magazine "PROsport", then in the sports division of NTV Plus.[1]

In 2011–2013, Dud hosted a TV show "Headbutt" at Russia-2. In 2015–2017, he started another show called "KultTura" for TV channel Match TV.[1]

From 2011 to 2018, Dud was an editor-in-chief of Sports.ru.[1] In 2018, he moved to the position of Deputy Director-General.[2]

Internet show

In February 2017, Dud launched a YouTube channel named vDud, where he interviews Russian celebrities that are not related to sport.[3] His interviewees are musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and business people. By June 2017, vDud gained over 800 thousand subscribers,[3] and by September 2017, the channel had 1.4 million subscribers.[4] As of May 2020, the channel has over 7.39 million subscribers.

On his Internet show, Dud interviewed prominent Russian figures such as Ilya Prusikin, Basta, L'One, Sergey Shnurov, Ilya Naishuller, Alexei Navalny, Noize MC, BadComedian, Maxim Fadeev, Vlady, Dmitry Malikov, Oleg Tinkov, Yury Bykov, Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Aleksandr Pal, Mikhail Khodorkovsky,[5] Vladimir Zhirinovsky,[4] Neuromonakh Feofan, Boris Khlebnikov, Leonid Parfyonov, Face, Vladimir Pozner, Ksenia Sobchak, Artemy Lebedev, Yuri Shevchuk, Semyon Slepakov, Alexander Petrov, Yevgeny Roizman, Alexander Nevzorov, Pavel Grudinin, Aleksei Serebryakov, Leonid Agutin, Alexei Venediktov, Aleksandr Tsekalo, Konstantin Khabensky, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Mikhail Yefremov, Sergey Dorenko, Eduard Limonov, Dmitry Nagiyev, Konstantin Kinchev, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Nikita Mikhalkov, Dmitry Kiselyov, Alexei Ivanov, Egor Kreed, Kantemir Balagov, Sergei Guriev, Konstantin Batygin, Anton Lapenko, Irina Gorbacheva as well as citizens of Armenia like Garik Martirosyan, Kazakhstan like Timur Bekmambetov and Ukraine like Ivan Dorn,[6] Alexander Rodnyansky, and Dmitry Gordon.

Personal life

Dud is married to Olga Dud (née Boneva) and has two children.[7][8]

References
  1. Юрий Дудь / Биография и фильмография (in Russian). Russia-2. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  2. "Юрий Дудь: "Новый главный редактор Sports.ru – Александр Аксенов"". Sports.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  3. Cichowlas, Ola (June 2, 2017). "Talking Heads: How Russia's Videobloggers are Shaping Public Opinion". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  4. Womack, Helen (September 10, 2017). "The future of Russia's media is in the hands of young and tech-savvy vloggers". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  5. "If Navalny Takes Power He Could End Up Like Putin, Says Khodorkovsky". The Moscow Times. August 9, 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  6. Yakutenko, Anna (April 13, 2017). "Top Ukrainian singer in trouble after controversial interview in Russia". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  7. Личная жизнь Юрия Дудя: татуировки в честь детей и непубличная жена
  8. "В день рождения Юрия Дудя: 7 поводов его любить". PEOPLETALK (in Russian). 2017-10-11. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
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