Famous TV presenter Lydia Taran. Lydia Taran: successful TV presenter and beautiful woman Lydia Taran

Have you ever thought that the accidents that we often use to explain our successes and failures are not accidental at all? When you find yourself faced with a difficult choice and can’t make an important decision, life seems to give you hints and push you towards the right path. Inexplicable but the fact.

We decided to ask our heroine, TV presenter and main fairy of the project about this Let go of my mind. Now she is one of the most successful women in Ukraine, who fantastically combines charity work, career growth and personal life. But how did it all start, and most importantly - when does Lydia Taran manage to live.

Especially for readers Clutch, the TV presenter recalled her cloudless childhood and school problems, spoke frankly about her most trembling fear, relationships with men and the fateful accidents that permeate her life everywhere.

About childhood

When people ask me about my childhood, what immediately comes to mind is a large deciduous tree that grew between my grandmother’s houses and her neighbors. It was a mulberry. My brother and friends and I climbed on it, built shelters or houses, and imagined ourselves as adults. They could sit on this tree for hours...

My grandmother also had a pond in the city. Big and colorful. We spent half the day playing on the mulberry tree, then ran away to the pond and returned when it was already dark. I remember that the adults scolded us very much for this, and in the morning they loaded us with work - picking strawberries, watering the garden... As soon as we completed the tasks, we ran to the mulberry tree again - and everything in a new way.

That’s why I associate summer with childhood. I always spent it with my grandmother, I went to see her even before I went to school. My parents lived in a big city, in Kyiv, and worked very hard. Therefore, when summer began, where could my brother and I go if not to grandma? We went to my dad's mom. She lived in Znamenka, Kirovograd region. In the private sector.

I had a free childhood. We swam until we were exhausted, sold something at the market... We did things that had no place in a big city. Of course, we swam in the Dnieper in Kyiv, but this cannot be compared. A completely different scale of liberties and festivities.

About parents

My parents had unusual professions for that time. Creative. Mom worked as a journalist, and dad worked as a screenwriter and translator. And since they were not employed at any factories, my brother and I did not have those material “advantages” that were inherent in strong Soviet families of workers, engineers or trade workers.

For example, at that time, trade union members at any enterprise could receive free trips to camps for their children, and had the opportunity to relax in sanatoriums and resorts in Crimea at a symbolic price. That is, there were a lot of these Soviet things that passed us by, because mom and dad had specific professions.

In addition, our parents did not have the opportunity to feed us with all sorts of deficits, for example, sweet New Year's gifts from trade unions. In some small towns, as far as I know, such special deliveries are still available.

My parents worked a lot, like everyone else at that time. I can’t say that my brother and I were abandoned children who did not receive attention from mom and dad. But we understood that adults are busy and do not have time to solve our children's issues. Therefore, no one ever tried to run to their parents with their problems - they tried to be independent. And this only worked to our advantage, in my opinion. From an early age we learned to take responsibility for ourselves and our actions...

About school years

I studied at a district school on the left bank of Kyiv, located near the houses where many factory workers lived Arsenal. The school was Russian, but they opened a “Ukrainian” class in it, and my parents specially pushed for it at all levels. For them this was a matter of principle! That’s the only reason I actually studied there. The Ukrainian class is the fruit of my parents’ struggle for the Ukrainization of Soviet Kyiv.

At school, studies were conducted for children from ordinary Ukrainian families who had just moved to Kyiv and who needed to be quickly Russified. This happened everywhere in those days. And someone had to resist. These someones became my mom and dad.

Gradually, the Ukrainian-speaking class became a leveling class, because it was considered unprestigious. There were much fewer children in it than in other classes, and only the most uninterested in learning were sent to us. They said that we had the worst academic performance and behavior at school.

To be honest, I never worried about this because I didn’t feel like a collective being. There were all sorts of things: enemies, boycotts, and quarrels. At the same time, there were good moments. But I can’t say that my class has become friendly, that I wouldn’t exchange it for another.

Life has shown that out of all my classmates, only 5 people received higher education, including me. For Kyiv, this is nonsense, because the number of institutions here is simply off the charts.

And the school itself was conducted “anyhow.” I admit honestly, sometimes I played truant, ran to the library instead of classes and sat for hours reading books. Although it can hardly be called truancy, because there was no attendance control at all. We were free in this regard. Many joked that in our school anything is possible (laughs - editor's note).

Of course, this was not the case everywhere. It’s just that I studied at a district school, and in big cities such institutions were not centers of culture and education. Especially when the number of first classes reached a dozen, with more than 30 children in each class.

Again, this was not the best place for children. There were various cases in our area - someone jumped out of a window, someone “destroyed” classrooms, and in some classrooms there were no windows, they were constantly knocked out and covered with plywood... As far as I know, now this school has improved - and now This is a school with in-depth study of some languages.

About children's dreams

To tell the truth, I didn’t have any childhood dreams about the future, I didn’t think about it at all. There was no desire to become, for example, a pianist, teacher or lawyer. But I definitely understood that I didn’t want to connect my life with mathematics, physics, and chemistry, so I went to the humanities lyceum.

And at the lyceum itself there was simply not enough time to think about the future. We were so busy with studies, essays, scientific discussions, regional and city Olympiads in all subjects, KVNs in history and the like that we could not think at all about what we wanted to become. Our main goal was, perhaps, to complete our studies (smiles - editor's note).

I graduated from the lyceum when I was a 15-year-old girl. Is it possible that at this age all children can concretely imagine their future and set some life priorities?... Experience shows that no.

Is our education system aimed at ensuring that children from an early age search for themselves, try to find the sphere in which they want to connect their lives? With the help of all sorts of trainings, psychological tests, career guidance conversations with specialists? No. Our education system is aimed at taking you by the throat, stuffing unnecessary knowledge into your head, and then releasing it into life - and do with it what you want. Where will concrete dreams about the future come from?

About fateful “accidents”

Yes, life has taken an interesting turn. Because a lot happened completely unexpectedly for me. Almost every stage of my life is riddled with some fateful accidents. For example, admission to a lyceum. It seemed impossible; the competition was serious. “Know-it-alls” from all over the city tried to go there, and after studying at the district school, competing with them seemed like an impossible task.

I decided to enter the lyceum spontaneously. I’ll say right away that this was absolutely my initiative, no pressure from my parents. I went to an embroidery club, made friends with a girl there - so she told me that she was preparing to enter a humanitarian lyceum. When I heard this, I decided to find out about him. I went to the lyceum for reconnaissance, talked with the teachers, and decided that I really needed to study there.

Firstly, it was a university lyceum. It already sounded like a song! (laughs - editor's note) Secondly, it was located in the city center. There are completely different children there, more knowledge-oriented.

There was a very big competition. I took 4 exams: Ukrainian and foreign languages, history, literature. Anticipating questions, I will say that I prepared on my own. Only the school teacher helped with the language; we studied with her at home for free - wrote dictations, did grammar exercises.

In general, in three months I had to learn the entire school curriculum. Because the knowledge that was given at the district school would not be enough to pass the exams. I concentrated on entering the lyceum, I really wanted it. I was just dreaming! They probably noticed this, because by some miracle I passed.

Plus I was lucky that they studied French at my school. Although they taught it even worse than other subjects (laughs - editor's note). After 9th grade, when I entered the lyceum, I literally knew three phrases - “Merci” (thank you), “Bonjour” (hello) and “Je m’appelle Lidia” (My name is Lida). But in fact, it was French that gave me the opportunity to enter the lyceum.

The Lyceum wanted to create a French group. Since the schools in which this language was taught could be counted on one hand, almost everyone who took the exam was admitted. If I had to take the test in English with the same level of knowledge as I did in French at that time, I would never have passed.

Some kind of magical coincidence. It was very difficult to enter this lyceum, being a student of a not very strong (I would even say weak) school. But somehow I still managed to get through. Interestingly, my friend from the district school in Obolon, where they also taught French, also enrolled with me.

The coincidences didn't end there. I chose the university in the same way as the lyceum. Although at that time there was not much choice, documents were submitted to only one place. If you couldn't get in, get ready and wait until next year. My friend and I wanted to get into the Faculty of International Relations, but we failed our interviews. And all that remained for us was to jump into the last carriage.

That’s how I ended up at the Institute of Journalism of KNU. T.G. Shevchenko, whose admissions committee was still working and took my documents. The exams seemed pleasant to me; thanks to my studies at the humanitarian lyceum, I passed everything easily.

To be honest, entering the Institute of Journalism was not only an accident, but also stupidity. My parents even scolded me for this, because my brother and I knew how difficult and poor life was for them with their professions. I wouldn’t have wished for such a fate voluntarily, but I went because there were no other options.

Studying was easy for me. I studied from notes that I wrote while still at the Lyceum. They contained enough information to pass the exams, so I could skip some lectures. I remember my classmates even made spurs for themselves from my notes.

In general, everything that we studied for two years at the humanitarian lyceum was then studied for another 5 years at the Institute of Journalism. And it was a real mess, because you could easily go to work. Which is exactly what I did.

I even ended up on television thanks to a happy coincidence. My boyfriend worked in radio, and I sometimes came to his studio. In the same building where the radio station was located, a New channel. I decided to try my luck - I came and said that I wanted to work. And they took me.

About career and motherhood

When I gave birth to Vasilina, I was 30. At that age, nothing can stop my career. Moreover, I have been doing it since I was 18 years old. When Vasya appeared, I already had a stable job in which I was successful, so the birth of my daughter did not ruin my life, but only made it better!

In general, I think it’s stupid to think that children can interfere with your career. Everything is exactly the opposite. They provide such a reboot, such a rethinking of life that many either begin to work with even greater zeal and achieve success, or radically change internally and find themselves in a completely different field of activity. Having children changes your worldview and life priorities.

My profession did not require long periods of maternity leave - I could be at home, edit the material and go to the studio directly to broadcast. Therefore, the birth of Vasilina did not throw me out of a professional rut, only from a physical one. After all, first you gain kilograms, and then you need to lose them. And during breastfeeding this is quite difficult.

After giving birth, I recovered for more than a year. I don’t know if that’s a lot or a little... I didn’t exhaust myself with physical activity or fasting to get back into shape in record time. The process was gradual. And when Vasya turned one year old, I began preparing for the project I dance for you. We trained a lot, rehearsed the numbers, trying to bring them to perfection. Thanks to this, the extra pounds disappeared quickly and easily.

About raising a daughter

Vasilina and I are close friends, but only until I tell her three times to clear the table, and she continues to pretend that these requests do not concern her. Then we stop being friends, and I still turn on the “strict mom” mode. From time to time it is simply necessary.

Everyone in the world is very kind to her - her grandparents, my friends and colleagues, even her teachers. Everyone is full of praise... She has such a chocolate-marmalade-marshmallow-baby life that without some kind of discipline and a periodically strict, demanding mother, she simply cannot become independent and responsible. Sometimes there needs to be a person nearby who can ground you a little.

For example, recently my daughter did not pass her English exam well, and her teacher wrote to me: “Just don’t scold Vasilina. Don’t be too angry... It happened.” Everyone around is protecting it, but someone needs to build it, say that it is going in the wrong direction, and point it in the right direction. Therefore, you have to take on the role of a critic. Although I love my daughter more than anyone in my life, and this is not even discussed.

The teenage age is already on the threshold - I’m terrified of what it will bring to us. There, any factor can become a turning point. I’m worried about how not to lose touch with Vasyusha and keep track of all her impulses, so to speak. So that later it doesn’t turn out that she needs to talk to a psychologist. And who will be to blame? Mom, of course. (laughs - editor's note)

During this period, parents must show sensitivity and child-centeredness, but at the same time teach independence and responsibility for their own choices. Although the modern generation of children is different from ours. Now they are not silent if they don’t like something, and they themselves can guide their parents well in terms of their upbringing.

About relationships

When you are a public person, the public is interested in everything about you. Especially personal life. I've been working in television for a long time and I understand this perfectly. But almost 10 years have passed since our relationship with Andrey ended, so it’s stupid to talk about it now. He built a new family - he has a wife and children. And I have no right to talk about it, because this is not my story for a long time.

I can say that I am pleased with the result of our union with Andrei, my daughter Vasilina. She is a smart, thoughtful and wise child beyond her years. Vasya understands why dad doesn’t live with us and doesn’t make a tragedy out of it. She has a lot of relatives - grandmothers, cousins, stepsisters and brother, aunt and uncle... Their love warms her.

Of course, sometimes there are moments when Vasilina tells me: “You know, it seems to me that dad doesn’t love me.” But this happens to every child. After her dad shows up, they spend some time together and their relationship evens out again. This is fine.

I think with horror that if Vasya had to live in an atmosphere of unlove, mistrust, quiet conflicts, when mom and dad sleep in different rooms, she would inevitably develop a guilt complex. Thank God we don't have that.

Parents should not sacrifice themselves for the sake of the child and torture each other, making excuses that this will be better for him. This approach is wrong in all respects. From the example of so many families, I know that it is a terrible feeling when a heavy burden is placed on you as a little person - the burden of responsibility for problems between adults. You find yourself in a role you don't deserve to be in. The family should educate and release, not hold hostage. After all, even when you grow up and start an independent life, you continue to be held hostage, only this time remotely.

Every family is happy and unhappy in its own way. But being with someone for the sake of a child is definitely not my choice. It won't bring happiness. Not only for me, but also for my daughter. There is no meaning in such a life at all, and there is nothing worse than a meaningless life.

About half of those with whom Vasya communicates do not have both parents present in the family every day; many have divorced parents. In the modern world, this has become not a horror that needs to be hidden, but, unfortunately, one of the norms. Although it’s probably not appropriate to talk about regret here. After all, we don’t know what happens in other people’s relationships and what causes their separation. Time passes, the institution of family is changing. And we cannot influence this process in any way.

About gossip and haters

Lately, I’ve been trying not to answer questions about my personal life, since gossip about my pseudo-novels appears on the Internet almost every day. I am credited with relationships with both married colleagues and men whom I have seen at most twice in my life. I constantly live in tension that I don't deserve to live in.

For example, recently a friend from Kamenets-Podolsky sent me news saying that I was having an affair with a colleague of my ex-husband. He also works as a TV presenter. And what’s interesting is that the material emphasizes that my “lover” is 10 years younger than me. I saw this man only twice: at football and during the filming of some story. But they managed to weave in a novel. This happens everywhere, I’m used to it, but my friends are very worried about it and are indignant.

I understand that everyone writes this to increase traffic. "Shock! A famous TV presenter has a lover who is 10 years younger” - who would refuse to click on such a headline? To tell the truth, such “canards” only flatter me. This suggests that I am not only popular on the Internet, but also that I can still have a lover 10-15 years younger (laughs - editor's note).

About men

I always had someone. But my personal life took shape on its own. I didn’t devote a lot of attention to searching for a guy, a man, a soul mate - whatever you want to call it. I was rather focused on work and career. If my main goal was to improve my family life, I probably would have done this 20 years ago (laughs - editor's note).

As for me today... I can say for sure that I cannot live with a jealous man, with a possessive man. Because he simply cannot withstand the incessant stream of shock news about my “adventures.” He needs to be truly confident.

It is very important for me that the man who is next to me is self-sufficient and professionally self-realized. But his external and physical data are already secondary...

About plans for the future

To be honest, I am now inclined to live by the principle: “don’t shift the problems of tomorrow to today.” It seems to me that if you do not have constant worries and worries about the future, if your head is not filled with thoughts about problems that do not yet exist, then today you will be able to live much more productively, better and happier.

The truth is simple - every well-lived today brings us closer to the same cloudless, beautiful future. Of course, having a big goal that inspires and guides you through life is cool. But it is important not to go too far. Because while you concentrate on how to realize this goal, you will forget what meaning you put into it.

I live for today and give my best. It is most important. Every day I have a carriage and a small cart of worries: maternal, work, household... For example, a huge piece of my soul is occupied by a wonderful project Let go of my mind, thanks to which we help children with serious health problems believe in themselves, in miracles, find their dreams and become happier.

My image of the good fairy, adored by children, is not always applicable to reality. Sometimes, in order to fulfill one childhood dream, you need to do serious work. We already have plans for the whole year - the art marathon #Myadityachamriya. We really want to make sure that children dream without restrictions, without conventions with an attitude - everything is possible, you just need to believe, don’t give up, follow your dreams.

Only 10% of sick children can do this and only 5% of healthy ones... It's sad. But 63% believe in miracles! To inspire them, we will collect 100,000 dream drawings and find 100,000 wizards! …. If, with all this work, I still engage in strategic planning for the future and soul-searching, I will simply waste time, which I already need to appreciate, love and enjoy every moment.

Interviewer: Olesya Bobrik
Photographer: Alexander Lyashenko
Shooting organizer.

Lydia Taran can rightfully be called one of the brightest women on Ukrainian television. She skillfully balances between professional activities and raising her daughter, is involved in charity work, takes part in marathon races and considers herself a hostage of the news, of course, in the good sense of the word. In a frank interview with TSN, the presenter spoke about the preferences of the modern Ukrainian viewer, competition in the profession and personality deformation as a result of working on television. As it turned out, on weekends the TV presenter works as a “mom-taxi”, considers parent-teacher meetings an atavism and likes to dream a lot. About what? Let's find out together

Lydia, over the years of working on television, a lot has probably happened: force majeure, and oddities on the set. So, a video of you losing a shoe during a live broadcast is very popular on the Internet. How do you deal with these types of unforeseen situations? What funny thing do you remember the most?

There were many funny situations: a window fell on me during a live broadcast, and I had to support it with one hand. During the broadcast, the male politician I interviewed tried several times to get a bag of champagne and sweets from under the table, citing the fact that it was his wife’s birthday. I remember how I lost my shoe on live television, I remember a fit of terrible laughter that I could barely cope with. There were cases when something broke on the air. Reservations are generally a classic of the profession.

Such force majeure events greatly amuse others, since television is not a frozen picture, but has a certain live effect. After all, TV people are real people, anything can happen to them, and the human factor has not been canceled. I treat oddities calmly, and how can I treat them if they cannot be foreseen? I just keep doing my job despite the distractions.

When it comes to the fate of children, human deaths, or the tense political situation in the country, journalists during live broadcasts often cannot cope with their own emotions and broadcast from television screens through tears. Do you think this is acceptable from a professional point of view?

Certainly! If we show this kind of news that you are talking about, then it should awaken compassion in the viewer. And the presenter's corresponding reaction simply emphasizes this. The presenters are not robots, and this is not about the civil, but about the human position of the announcer, empathy for what is happening. However, a situation where the presenter washes himself with tears, as a result of which the viewer cannot understand what is being said, is unacceptable, since our main working “tool” is speech, not emotions.

“There are stories that I familiarize myself with before the broadcast, and during the live broadcast I ask the sound engineer to turn off the sound and simply turn away.”

Do you have a recipe for dealing with emotions?

I’ll tell you a secret: there are stories that I familiarize myself with before the broadcast, and during the live broadcast I ask the sound engineer to turn off the sound and simply turn away. As a rule, these are stories from the TSN “Additional Help” section. My threshold of sensitivity is very low, therefore, I understand that if I disturb the work environment after such a plot, I may not complete the hour-long broadcast. Of course, you need to control yourself. I feel a huge responsibility to people - at a certain moment the viewer can turn off the TV, turn away from the screen, leave the room, but I must stay in the frame and continue working.

There are no special recipes for dealing with emotions; the point here is the level of professional responsibility of the presenter, which determines his behavior. I confess that during the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, corvalment and barboval appeared on my desktop. Events in the country were unfolding in such a way that there was a wild feeling of tension, and I understood that it was impossible to do without taking sedatives.

How can television audiences avoid information intoxication? Some tips from Lydia Taran...

It’s a matter of everyone’s personal approach – what information to consume and in what volume. Some people, and I know them personally, prefer not to know what is happening in the country at all. It’s their choice, it’s probably easier for them. My mother, on the contrary, is comfortable knowing everything. She watches news on several channels, compares points of view, analyzes, draws conclusions, because with a lack of information she feels uneasy. Each of us answers questions to ourselves: what information field to choose, what current to pass through ourselves and what to be a recipient of? We must pay tribute to social networks, including YouTube, and other digital sources of information, which allow us to filter information and identify content that is interesting to us.

As for me personally, I am a hostage, in the good sense of the word, of running a news program, so all TV lovers associate me with information. And if a person wants to avoid intoxication, then he simply does not need to contemplate me, so as not to later remove toxins through medication.

Agree that television should not only satisfy the information demand of the population, but also have a positive influence on its audience. At the same time, in television programs, in particular in news releases, there are significantly more negative messages than positive ones. What to do about it? How to balance?

It is impossible to artificially level the balance, because news is created not to distort reality in the world around us, but to reflect it objectively. It is unlikely that it will be possible to create a positive information flow without distorting the actual state of affairs.

“You can ignore deaths at the front, abandoned children and old people, and only talk about parties and music awards, but is this fair to the viewer?”

You can ignore deaths at the front, abandoned children and old people, and talk only about parties and music awards, but is this fair to the viewer? There are a huge number of problems in our country - with employers, developers, subsidies, and corruption. If we don’t talk about it, then who will? If we don’t talk about this, people will live in a fragile world that will very quickly be broken by harsh reality. As soon as they go to take their child to school or use public transport, they will understand that everything is far from OK. Therefore, the news is reality, you cannot live being separated from it.

Among the modern progressive population, you can often hear the phrase: “TV? I haven’t watched it for a long time!” Do you think television remains the leader in shaping public opinion, or has the baton been passed to Internet content?

The content remains essentially the same, only the platform changes. If earlier people did not know any other scenario other than pressing the button to turn on the TV, now they are not interested in this scenario. The modern Ukrainian viewer independently and precisely selects the flow of information that interests him and the format for familiarizing himself with it.

“You need to understand that people sitting in front of the TV will influence important things happening in the country for some time to come.”

We should also not forget that for most Ukrainians, television is still an integral part of their lives, which they will not give up under any circumstances. This, as you know, is something that goes without saying, like having a table in the house. You need to understand that people sitting in front of the TV will continue to influence important things happening in the country for some time. It is these people who have an active civic position and take part in choosing the president and parliament of the country. Unfortunately, some young people who prefer to abstract themselves and live in their own closed little world are clearly losing, withdrawing from this and other processes that are extremely important for the life of society. And their future is essentially chosen by those who watch TV.

The Achilles heel of modern Ukrainian television – what is it?

A weakened information field and low budgets.

Are you familiar with the other side of the coin, such as personality deformation and professional burnout? How to deal with this?

Emotional burnout, as a rule, happens to presenters who work every day and are constantly in information hardcore.

After six months of working in this mode, a state very often occurs in which the individual becomes absolutely indifferent. And this cannot be allowed, because the viewer immediately sees and feels fatigue, automatism and indifference on the other side of the screen on the part of the TV presenter. Because I work a more relaxed schedule, I don't experience burnout.

As for personality deformation, the situation here is different. 20 years of working in television has turned me into a person with a built-in internal chronometer. News is a complex technological chain. If the news doesn’t air at 7:30 p.m., it means something has happened in the country, so at 7:01 p.m. I must either ride in the elevator or run up the steps from the newsroom to makeup, and at 7:10 p.m. I must be dressed. Even without the director’s command, I always feel the plot 30 or even 10 seconds before it starts. This works at the level of the subconscious, the sixth sense, and has a negative impact on everyday life, since I cannot concentrate on one thing, constantly scrolling through a huge diverse array of information in my head.

Lydia, technological progress, moving forward by leaps and bounds, has also affected television. The television audience has already had the opportunity to watch Special Correspondence broadcasts in 360° format. What will the television of the future be like? What “mutations” should we expect? Perhaps there will soon be... robot presenters?

Robot presenters may probably appear, but you can’t sew emotions into them, and any news still has a human face. Everything is important - the presenter’s view, his reaction... I think that a non-personal presentation of news is not what we should strive for. After all, information, its internal saturation and the approach to it are interesting only from a human point of view. News about people cannot be carried by robots, because people want to see their own kind. I think that such a television “mutation” is possible only in a targeted experimental format. Even if a robot cries in the frame, it will be a robot, not a person whose brain has launched complex neural reactions.

I would like to talk about the “Make Dreams” project, which you are the curator of and thanks to which the wishes of more than a dozen sick children have been fulfilled... You once said that at the beginning of the project it was difficult to find sick children who were not afraid to dream. Why is that?

This problem still exists today - children are really afraid to dream. Just recently we visited a girl named Veronica, who dreamed of meeting Nadya Dorofeeva from the group “Time and Glass”. When I, sitting next to her, asked the question: “Veronica, do you remember how you composed a message with your desire?”, She lowered her eyes, shrank all over and answered: “No...”.

All the strength of sick children and their families is aimed at the hospital reality, at surviving. They don’t think about something impossible, they just don’t care about dreams. They are forced to spend so much time in hospitals, they are closed, they rarely smile. But we are sure that dreams heal! And we want young patients to look differently at life, at what surrounds them. Such children should know that this world is filled with kindness and smiles, that joy, happiness, our love, warmth and support are always nearby. Now 57 impressive children's dreams have already been realized - this was a meeting with Cristiano Ronaldo in Madrid, a trip to Disneyland in Paris, a ceremonial initiation into the police and the presentation of a personalized badge from the hands of the President of Ukraine, a letter from Michael Jordan, etc. The emotions that a child experiences - healing, they have a positive effect on both vital signs and the treatment process. These children become bolder with us, join real life, and go beyond the walls of the hospital. And the fact that every child takes a step towards a dream that until now seemed fantastic and unrealistic to him is something unforgettable, which causes inner triumph, changes life, the atmosphere around him. The mission of the movement is to unite thousands of little dreamers and thousands of wizards. There is no dream that we cannot realize together! It's just about people's desire to help. Join our movement for good!

What are you dreaming about?

Oh, I'm dreaming to the fullest! But I don’t dream so much that the power of my thoughts will help these dreams come true, because I’m distracted all the time. Agree, we, adults, dream about things that we would like to make come true. This means that these are no longer dreams, but simply plans, tasks, intentions, that is, concepts from a more practical plane. One of my friends said: “Dreams are from childhood, but adults think and do. What does it mean to dream? Have you made a plan? Go ahead - work!”

“Driving culture reflects the culture of society as a whole, and the situation on our roads can only be corrected using radical methods. Waiting for Ukrainians to mentally grow to the point of not breaking the rules is not the best scenario, because you can wait for a very long time...”

You recently joined a social projectNnational policeUregion "TOEroy”, uniting the efforts of drivers to improve the situation on the roads. What, in your opinion, is the main problem of Ukrainian drivers? How to improve the culture of behavior on the roads?

Driving culture reflects the culture of society as a whole, and the situation on our roads can only be corrected using radical methods. Waiting for Ukrainians to mentally grow to the point of not breaking the rules is not the best scenario, because you can wait for a very long time...

There are two points to focus on here. First, personal responsibility: when a motorcyclist increases his speed to 200 km/h, he must be aware that his children may become orphans. Secondly, there is “external” liability in the form of payment of penalties for violating traffic rules. And these fines need to be increased. In our neighbors in Slovakia and Poland, drivers for a long time could not get used to the speed limit in rural areas of up to 40 km/h, but it turned out to be a matter of time - the introduced system of responsibility in the form of fines coped with its task, and the established rules were fixed in the brains of drivers at the level subconscious.

The day she changed course

One day she decided that she would absolutely, easily, without any patronage, go to university and study at the Faculty of International Relations. The famous TV presenter Lydia Taran studied at a Kyiv school, famous for the fact that you didn’t have to go there. In other words, Lida studied at a slob school. Today she is happy that she regularly skipped classes. She sat at home or in the district library and read books voraciously. Yes, yes, this happens too. The Kiev girl, who was not controlled by adults, since in their family everything was built solely on mutual respect and trust, was engaged in self-education.

She was confident in herself. But it flew by. And on the last day I began feverishly to find out which other faculty I could apply to. Names flashed before my eyes: chemical, physical, foreign languages, philological, historical... Everything was wrong. Boring. Not warm. What remains is journalism. And she chose what she actually hated: the parents of the famous TV presenter Lydia Taran were well-known journalists in Kyiv. Or rather, my mother, Maria Gavrilovna, was published in a number of Komsomol publications, of which there were an incredible number in Soviet times. My father (unfortunately, he is no longer with us), in addition to journalism, wrote and did translations. All over the apartment: on the table, sofa, on the floor, there were handwritten sheets of paper, newspaper clippings, and magazines. Little Lydia fell asleep to the endless clatter of the typewriter, which either chattered briskly or froze for several minutes. But out of this hatred grew professional love and greed. “Dad screamed so loud! - “Don’t even dream that I will help you!” - he yelled when he found out that his daughter had entered journalism. And this despite the fact that he has a lot of friends at the faculty. It’s just that my father was an extremely principled man. Well, it's okay. In any case, I never regretted for a single day that I chose journalism. This was the only faculty that allowed full-time study and work at the same time. Like many guys, in my first year I went to radio and worked part-time at UNIAN and Interfax. Then on FM radio stations. Soon she got on television. Everything worked out somehow by itself, without unnecessary stress, refusals, or disappointments.”

The day when excitement woke up

One day Lydia moved from one building to another: in the building next to the radio station where she worked, a room for the New Channel was equipped. I asked who to contact about employment. They explained, invited me for an interview, and offered to work. Although Lydia admits: “I got in easily, but then it was hard for me to grow in these structures.” For example, when she came to the New Channel at the age of 21, unexpectedly for everyone she suddenly announced: “I want to host sports programs. Everyone in our family is interested in sports. Here's the concept." They explained to her with a smile: “Girl, maybe you can start by having some fun, doing something simple, growing up?” The famous TV presenter Lydia Taran was lucky: she was not thrown into the water like a blind kitten: if you swim, you will survive. She faced neither intrigue, nor competition, nor envy, nor “TV hazing.” “New Channel” then gathered within its walls a wonderful team of like-minded people. Obsessed people of different ages, sincerely willing and able to work. Everyone lived by the same idea - professional greed: to create something fundamentally new on Ukrainian television. Famous TV journalist Andrei Kulikov has just returned from London. And the famous TV presenter Lydia Taran (who was on TV for almost a week) was immediately put on air together with the TV boss.

“Just imagine who I am and who He is! And the two of us go to the morning broadcast. When I saw Andrey, I was speechless. My tongue went numb with excitement. But for a TV worker, the most important thing is the desire to learn. And I studied. For example, today a fledgling second-year student comes on television and immediately pumps up his rights: “Are you offering me only $500 for such (!) work?!” He himself is no one and calling him is nothing, and at the same time he already tells how much they have to pay him. Yes, at one time I was glad and happy that, it turns out, they also give me money for such a cool and interesting job! I would work for free, if only they would not deprive me of the opportunity to participate in the process itself. By the way, Andrei Domansky, who was then working on the radio, had exactly the same state of euphoria and complete misunderstanding, for which he signed the monthly statement and put bills in his wallet.”

The day the revolution happened

One day, Lidina’s godmother, producer of the “Rise” program, invited many guests to a housewarming party, including TV presenter Andrei Domansky (he had left the radio station by that time). They worked on the same TV channel, but practically never crossed paths in the corridors. Lydia hosted the evening editions of “Sports Reporter”, Andrey - the morning “Rise”. We saw each other at rare parties. At the housewarming party we got to know each other better and went our separate ways. Domansky then left “Rise”. He explained that he didn’t have much success, so he was returning to his family in Odessa. And then a revolution happened in the country. In Odessa, Domansky hosted the “Orange Square” program - a kind of discussion club between ordinary citizens and politicians - and often called Lida as a “news” presenter for consultations. Then the two of them worked at a New Year’s corporate party. Lida left for her winter holiday. And a day later I started receiving SMS from Domansky - funny poems. So, something abstract, non-binding. “At that time I had a serious romance and a stormy personal life. I received a sea of ​​similar messages, both from Domansky and from other people. But even then it seemed to Andrei Yuryevich that he was flirting with me like that. I thought I was just friends with him. By and large, this was the case, since soon we parted with the man I loved, and Andryusha saved me from suffering and worries. These were abstract conversations about how to properly build love relationships so that they would not later fall apart like a house of cards. But Andrei Yuryevich quickly saw through: it’s time to join the game.”

The day she abandoned Domansky

One day, he and Andrey found themselves in the same energy field: both were going through a difficult period of personal relationships. Lydia was going through a breakup, and Andrei could not improve family relationships. They listened to each other and did not talk about themselves at all.

“For some reason we always ended up in the same companies. Since we were already on a short leg, I sometimes wondered: “Andryusha, if you’re so obsessed with me, isn’t it really painful to listen to my emotional groans? “However, we didn’t have one-on-one dates for a long time. At that time, Andrei was a family man, and the family was a parish into which I never intended to get involved. When I realized that he really took me seriously, I began... to dissuade him from our meetings.

In a word, I continued to be friends with him, but he was no longer friends with me. Our relationship took a truly serious turn only when Andrei made an unequivocal decision about his family. But this is exclusively Domansky’s topic, not mine. I wouldn’t want to discuss it with anyone.”

The day she tried on her wedding dress

Once, the famous TV presenter Lydia Taran played the role of the bride - as many as five times. She had exactly the same number of photo shoots in wedding dresses. A photo of Lida’s bride is on her mother’s table. But Lydia Taran and Andrei Domansky never got together at the registry office. Lida and Andrey have been together for six years. They have a two-year-old daughter, Vasilina. At the same time, the guys live in a civil marriage and do not think about formalizing the relationship. Close friends, TV presenter Marichka Padalko and her common-law husband, TV presenter Yegor Sobolev, strongly discourage them from going to the registry office. This is because each of them also had an unsuccessful marriage at one time or another. In response to women’s tricks: they say that the child must have an official father, Lida just shrugs her shoulders in surprise: “So she has one. This is written on the birth certificate. And Vasilina’s last name is Domanskaya. The stamp in the passport has absolutely no effect on Andrei’s paternal duty - both to his older children and to his youngest. He knows this very well. In addition, we do not have extra funds to stupidly throw them away at some incomprehensible ceremony, which, by and large, is of no use to anyone. This money would be better spent on travel, which is what we do.”

This beautiful, popular and extremely busy television couple solves all everyday issues easily. The problem of dirty dishes went away with the purchase of a dishwasher. Cleaning, like cooking, is the responsibility of the beautiful Aunt Lyuba, practically a member of their family. Aunt Lyuba is a participant in many television culinary projects. Prepares dishes that invited celebrities then pass off as their own. By the way, Lidia’s mother Maria Gavrilovna and Vasilina spend the whole summer at Aunt Lyuba’s dacha. While mom and dad are at work, grandma takes care of her daughter.

“All problems can be solved. The main thing is not to put them at the forefront. You can grumble: they say, what a bad wife I have, she doesn’t cook anything for me,” Lida smiles. - Yes, Lord, there are pizzerias, there is home delivery of food. Why isn't there a way out of the situation? Although, when time and desire arise, why not cook something delicious yourself?”

The day she danced for everyone

One day she left Channel 5. “I had been invited to “Plyusy” before, but the editor and I felt very comfortable at “Novy.” And then we got tired of a certain monotony and realized: it was time to move on. And they decided to move from a tiny shop to a larger shop. There are many more opportunities for self-realization here.”

The fact is obvious - at first Lydia Taran hosted only one program - “Breakfast with “1+1”. Soon the show “I Love Ukraine” was organized. Afterwards - the project “Dancing for You-3”. In it, Lydia Taran was one of the star participants.

“This is far from my initiative, and the hypostasis, as for me, is very strange. I didn’t feel the potential in myself. I’ve never danced in my life, neither in clubs nor in amateur performances. Even at her own wedding with Domansky, she did not spin in a whirlwind of a waltz, since there was no wedding. At first I was firmly convinced that nothing would work out. It was very difficult - wounded fingers, torn muscles, sprains, bruises. It's like professional sports - real work. In fact, it turned out that such activities completely transform a person. Some convolutions that were previously “asleep” begin to work in the brain. Absolutely everything is included in the work. Although dance is not primarily a brain thing. It's soul and body."

Of course, Lida, like any person, the criticism directed at them on the dance floor was unpleasant. But despite the tears, she, firstly, proved that she can take a punch, and secondly, as an experienced TV presenter, she was aware that she was taking part in the show. This means that a lot here depends not on how you danced, but on how your number was arranged. By the way, Andrei Domansky was far from delighted with his wife’s idea to take part in this television project. He remembered very well how last year one of the participants in “I Dance for You” was Marichka Padalko, and how her child got sick during the project. In addition, every man wants his wife to bring him at least a glass of tea in the evening, so that, in the end, she is under supervision, and does not disappear until 12 o’clock at night in the rehearsal room. Nevertheless, Lida went out onto the floor. Although in real life she would rather give in in an argument with her husband: “It’s much more comfortable to give in than to argue with Andrey. And it’s comfortable for the two of us. And why do something contrary, if you can just meet each other halfway and get a real buzz from your own compliance, flexibility and non-conflict.”

Lydia Taran is one of the most prominent representatives of the world of Ukrainian television, who managed to build an impressive career, not forgetting about her beauty or her family. How did she do it? Let's find out together!

Lydia Taran is one of the few women on Ukrainian television who have been able to firmly establish themselves in the profession for many years and continue to be one of the most sought-after presenters in the media industry. It is impossible to imagine the 1+1 TV channel without the pretty blonde, who hosted Breakfast, news, and sports programs, becoming the real “face” of the TV channel.

Nationality: Ukrainian

Citizenship: Ukraine

Activity: TV presenter

Family status: unmarried, has a daughter, Vasilina (born in 2007)

Biography

Lida was born in Kyiv in 1977 into a family of journalists. Her parents were constantly away from home, which is why Lida hated journalism and her mom and dad’s work as a child. Due to the fact that the family did not pay enough attention to her, Lida began to skip school. Unlike other “truants” who wandered around the courtyards, the girl spent her “free” time from school usefully: she sat for hours in the reading room of the library located not far from her house and read books.

Despite absenteeism, Taran graduated from school with good grades, although this did not help her enter the Faculty of International Relations. The girl didn’t know where to go instead and chose the most obvious option - journalism. When the parents found out that their daughter had followed in their footsteps, the father said that he would not help her “out of acquaintance” and that she would have to achieve everything herself.

And Lida accepted the challenge and coped with everything on her own! Even while studying at the Institute of Journalism of KNU named after. T.G. Shevchenko, she worked part-time on the radio, and then she was quite unexpectedly invited to television. The building next to the radio station housed the studio of the New Channel, and Taran asked a passing worker where she could find out about available vacancies. So, at just 21 years old, Lida began working on one of the national channels of Ukraine.

Lida was always interested in sports and wanted to work in sports news. Quite by chance, Andrei Kulikov, one of the most famous television journalists in the country, returned to the capital, and Taran was paired with him. According to Lida, at that time she felt so happy that she was ready to work practically for free. And when Lida found out that I would pay her decent money for the broadcast, she knew no bounds to her happiness. On the New Channel, Lida managed to work in the projects “Reporter”, “Sportreporter”, “Pidyom” and “Gol”.

From 2005 to 2009, Lydia Taran worked as a news anchor on Channel 5 (“New Hour”)

In 2009, Lida moved to channel 1+1, where she hosted such popular programs as “Breakfast” and “I Love Ukraine.” Later she became a participant in the popular project “I Dance for You” and the winner of the prestigious Teletriumph television award. Lydia was a presenter on TSN, and also worked on channel 2+2 in the ProFutbol program.

It is very important for Taran to try herself in something new and interesting, so she does not classify herself as one of those presenters who work in only one direction for 10-20 years, for example, leading a news block, but always strive to gain new experience and learn something else.

In recent months, Lydia Taran has been the curator of the large charity project “Make Your Dream Come True” and devotes her time to making the dreams of seriously ill children come true, for whom every day they live is a miracle.

Personal life

After a dizzying career on television, an equally stormy and discussed affair followed with a colleague and TV presenter Andrei Domansky. The presenters lived together for about five years, but never registered their relationship. In 2007, they had a daughter, whom her parents named Vasilina.

Lida communicated with Andrei for a long time when he was still married to his first wife, but only after he broke up with her did Taran decide to have a relationship. Everyone admired their couple, considering them ideal, so their unexpected separation came as a real shock to many.

Andrey did not turn out to be the “one” for Lida who comes into life once and for all, being the first to decide to break off the relationship. Lida took the breakup hard and was very offended by Andrey at first, but found the strength to look at this situation from the other side. Later in an interview, the TV presenter said that she thanked fate for meeting Domansky and for the fact that he gave her a daughter, Vasilina.

“The only thing I know about his personal life is that it is wonderful,” from his own interview. Now he looks free and happy. Maybe at some stage he was burdened by our relationship, he wanted something new, unknown and could not afford it... Now we have an even relationship, as Andrey says, on the “father-mother” plane and they do not include any interest in personal each other's lives."

Now Lydia is focused on her daughter and career success, but also does not forget to devote time to hobbies and entertainment. Lida had boyfriends several times, but she is in no hurry to share the details of her personal life and does not advertise it in any way.

“My present is Vasyusha, me and my mother”

Interesting Facts

• Taran is a big fan of skiing, and whenever possible she tries to vacation in Europe.
• Lydia speaks French and English.
• Taran never denies himself anything and does not go on diets.
• She is a big fan of beach holidays and chocolate tanning.
• For many years, the presenter has been friends with her colleague Marichka Padalko. Marichka and her husband were Vasilina’s godparents, and Lida herself is the godmother of Padalko’s son.
• Lida loves France and everything connected with this country. She has holidayed there several times, but due to the economic crisis she is afraid that she will not be able to travel as often as before.
• Quite often he likes to change his image.
• In December 2011, she participated in the show “Beauty in Ukrainian”.
• In 2012, she took part in the project of the channel “1 + 1″ “And Love Will Come.”

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I recently read an interesting article about how human memory works. From very early childhood, only the most vivid and emotional moments are remembered. For example, I remember how, when I was one and a half years old, I was running along the street of the town of Znamenka, Kirovograd region, where my grandmother lived, running to meet my parents, who had come out of Kyiv to visit me. I spent the summer with my grandmother. I also remember how my grandmother baptized me in secret from my parents, as many grandmothers did. In Kyiv, this topic was generally taboo, but in the villages, grandmothers quietly baptized their grandchildren.

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There was no church in Znamenka, there were almost none left at that time, so my grandmother took me to a neighboring area on a completely packed rural bus, and there, right in the priest’s hut, which also served as a church, the sacrament took place. I remember this old hut, the buffet, which served as an iconostasis, the priest in a cassock; I remember how he put an aluminum cross on me. But I was only a little over two years old. But these were unusual impressions, which is why they remained in my memory.

There are also inspired memories: when your relatives constantly tell you what kind of child you were, it really seems to you that you remember it yourself. Mom often recalled how my brother Makar scared me very much, and with the best intentions. Makar is three years older and has always taken care of me. One day he brought an apple from kindergarten and gave it to me, and I was still a toothless baby. My brother did not know that a small child cannot bite off an apple, so he put the whole apple in my mouth, and when my mother entered the room, I was already losing consciousness. Sometimes, when for some reason I feel short of breath, it seems to me that I really remember this moment, these sensations.

Lydia Taran in 1982

Now my brother teaches history at Shevchenko University, organized an office there to study Chinese, and at the same time created a department of American studies; He is my very advanced brother - a teacher and a researcher at the same time. On set, young journalists, his former students, often come up to me and ask me to say hello to “beloved Makar Anatolyevich.” Makar is so smart that he speaks fluent Chinese, French and English, has studied the entire world history - from ancient civilizations to the modern history of Latin America, and has trained in Taiwan, China, and the USA! Moreover, all the opportunities for this - grants and travel programs - he “knocks out” for himself. As they say, in a family there must be someone smart and someone beautiful, and I know exactly which of the two of us is smart. Although Makar is handsome too.

When I was little, I adored my brother and imitated him in everything. She spoke about herself in the masculine gender: “he went,” “he did.” And also – no longer of her own free will – she wore his things. In those days, few could afford to dress a child the way they wanted and the way they liked. And if you have an older sister, then you will get her dresses, and if you have a brother, then pants. And so the mothers tried to sew and alter them. Our mother often altered something old, inventing new styles.

I remember being taken home from kindergarten on a sled through the creaking snow, I remember snowflakes swirling in the light of the streetlights. The sled had no back, so you had to hold on with your hands so as not to fall out when turning. Sometimes, on the contrary, I wanted to fall into a snowdrift, but in a fur coat I was so clumsy and heavy that I couldn’t even roll off the sled. A fur coat, leggings, felt boots... The kids were like cabbage back then: a thick woolen sweater, knitted by someone unknown and when, thick leggings, felt boots; it is unclear from whom one of my acquaintances gave away a hundred-fold tsigey fur coat, over the collar there is a scarf tied at the back so that adults can grab its ends like a leash; On top of the hat there was also a down scarf, which was also tied around the throat. All Soviet children remember the feeling of winter suffocation from scarves and shawls. You go outside like a robot. But you immediately forget about the discomfort and enthusiastically go digging snow, breaking icicles or gluing your tongue to the frozen iron of the swing. A completely different world.

Your parents were creative people: your mother was a journalist, your father was a writer and screenwriter... Probably, your life was still at least a little different from the lives of other Soviet children?

Mom worked as a journalist in the Komsomol press. She often traveled on her reporting duties, then wrote, and in the evenings she typed articles on a typewriter. There were two in the house - a huge “Ukraina” and a portable GDR “Erika”, which in fact was also quite large.

My brother and I, as we were going to bed, heard the machine whirring in the kitchen. If my mother was very tired, she would ask us to dictate to her. Makar and I took a ruler to trace the lines, sat next to each other and dictated, but soon we began to nod off. And my mother typed all night long - her articles, my father’s scripts or translations.