In the history of any country there are people who have become legends. They did not lead troops into battle, did not raise virgin soil and did not work in the Taiga, but their contribution to the life of the country was very important. It's about radio and television announcers, whose voices people listened to during news bulletins, especially in wartime.
The voice of the announcer of the All-Union Radio Olga Vysotskaya was known to everyone in the Soviet Union. She declared minutes of silence, the exact Moscow time, and reported on important government meetings. Now she is called the legend of the Soviet radio.
Biography
Olga Sergeyevna Vysotskaya was born in Moscow in the distant 1906. Her family was the most ordinary: dad worked as an electrician on the railway, and mom was a housewife. They lived in a difficult and interesting time: first there was the Civil War, then the revolution, dispossession, NEP and so on.
Despite the difficulties, Olga grew mobile and creative: she sang, danced, recited poems to the public. When I went to school, I went to several circles at once. As a teenager, she came to a youthful theater studio and began to engage in acting with pleasure.
At that time, it was not customary for ordinary families to receive higher education, so after eight years Olya got a job in one of the workshops of a textile factory. Here she was fond of athletics, had great success, and she was invited to teach physical education in primary school.
One of the parents noticed that their teacher has a great voice and excellent diction. In 1929, Olga Sergeyevna passed a casting on the radio and entered the staff of the All-Union Radio.
Radio Announcer Career
Two years after entering the radio, Vysotskaya became the host of information programs and radio conversations - it was very responsible, because in those days absolutely everyone listened to the radio. However, the young announcer coped with the duties perfectly and soon won the love of the audience of the whole vast country. Her sincere intonations and impeccable diction were recognizable, and it was pleasant to listen to her. Very soon, Olga Vysokaya became the leading radio announcer of the USSR.
And then she began to conduct the most important programs: broadcasts from meetings of the Central Committee of the CPSU and events taking place on the Red Square. And if large performances and important concerts were broadcast on the radio, they were also accompanied by the voice of Vysotsky.
When the war came, the voices of Vysotskaya and Levitan inspired hope in victory. When our troops retreated, how much did the announcers need to speak clearly and calmly. And what skill and creativity needed to be shown so that during the offensive of our troops it would also be calm and dignified to announce the next breakthrough on the fronts.
But how joyfully and fervently Vysotskaya announced the surrender of Germany in May 1945 and told the audience about the first Victory Parade, which took place on June 24 of the same year.
