Sergey Stillavin is a well-known Russian television and radio host who worked in tandem with Gennady Bachinsky, and then with Rustam Vakhidov. Stillavin’s biography contains many bright spots, since he is an incredibly interesting and creative person.
Biography
Sergey Stillavin was born in 1973 in St. Petersburg. His last name is nothing more than a pseudonym derived from the phrase in English "still lovin '", which can be translated as "still love." Sergei changed his native name, Mikhailov, at the beginning of his journalistic career. He repeatedly said that in his youth he had difficulty recognizing his beloved girl in his feelings, which served as the basis for a pseudonym.
As for the early years of Sergei’s life, from childhood he was fond of everything related to technology and inventions, but studying at school with a mathematical bias was not good for him. Then he tried to enter a humanitarian institute, but left him, realizing that he was not interested in education. Stillavin got a job as a correspondent in the magazine "Slavic Bazaar", where he led a column on real estate in the Northern capital. After some time, he began working on Radio Modern, where he met and met many show business stars, as well as his future work partner and best friend Gennady Bachinsky.
Friends decided to start their own morning show, dubbed "Two in One." The program quickly gained popularity, and the hosts were invited by Russian Radio, but Bachinsky and Stillavin preferred Radio Maximum to him. After giving him five years of work, friends switched to Mayak, but in 2008, Gennady Bachinsky was tragically killed in a car accident. Sergei was very upset by the loss, but did not quit his job on the radio. He also began working on television.
Stillavin’s first television project was The Golden Duck on NTV. The program was dedicated to celebrity news and gossip. And since 2012, Sergei, along with Rustam Vakhidov, began broadcasting the Big Test Drive on the Russia-2 channel. The presenters approached each other perfectly: they not only tested various cars, but also filled the program with a fair amount of humor. Stillavin and Vakhidov also host a YouTube channel of the same name, posting expanded versions of a television show and videos in the format of a video blog on it. Currently, the channel’s audience has about a million subscribers.
