Ivan Rudskoy - aka Ivangay, the most popular video blogger in the CIS countries and Russia. Born and raised in Ukraine. Also, his channel on the YouTube video hosting site has long been one of the fastest growing entertainment channels.
Short biography and family
Ivan Romanovich Rudskoy was born in Ukraine, in the village of Alexandria, Shirokovsky district, Dnipropetrovsk region. Date of birth January 19, 1996. His family was in no way associated with creative activity. Mom is an economist and dad is a veterinarian. Ivangai has two younger sisters who also have channels on the YouTube video hosting site. It was with them, in high school, that he moved to the village of Ingulets (Krivoy Rog District).
Vanya from early childhood showed learning abilities. Already at 3 years old, he was able to speak well, read and tried to learn English under the guidance of his father. It is not surprising that in the future Ivan graduated with honors from the gymnasium. In addition, the young man was engaged in art and music school, studied vocals and guitar, and also attended judo training.
Then he entered the Dnepropetrovsk National University (currently the Dnieper National University) at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, but decided to stop studying before graduation and moved from Ukraine to Russia (to Moscow).
In 2017, he decided to study at the Warsaw University of Technology at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology. He is educated in English. His younger sisters Daria and Sofya decided to devote their lives to design and entered the corresponding faculty.
Career and creativity
The first time Ivan comes to the YouTube video portal at the age of 13. At that time, the teenager simply watched the videos, but after a few years he came up with the idea to create his own channel.
He registered on March 19, 2013. At that time, Vanya was still studying in 11th grade. Initially, most of his videos were related to the then-popular Minecraft game. But still, the first video was musical, performed in the rap style "Song of a nerd." Due to this song, Rudskoy gained popularity and respect at school.
And already in 2015, Vanya took part in the shooting of YouTube Rewind, the Lenovo advertising campaign and the Videofan festival, and won the Like 2015 award in the Like for Lifestyle nomination held as part of the Vidfest festival.
In June 2016, Stephen Nuttell, head of YouTube on European, Middle Eastern and African regions, paid a visit to Moscow and called Ivan the most sought after and famous blogger in Russia.
Already in November 2016, the number of subscribers to the channel of Ivan Rudsky exceeded the mark of 10 million users, as a result of which he became the owner of the YouTube award, namely, he received a diamond button. The total number of views of his videos at that time exceeded 2 billion. In the same year he was invited to shoot in the program "Evening Urgant."
In April 2017, Moscow hosted the festival related to Japanese culture in the Russian Federation, "Hinode Power Japan", to which Ivangai arrived, and where he eventually met with subscribers right at the Nintendo booth.
At the moment, Ivan Rudskoy suspended his blogging activities and is seriously engaged in studies. The latest video was released on September 22, 2017.
