Valentina Ivanovna Golubeva - a public figure. She gained fame by becoming one of the experts, and then the captain of the only female team of the television club "What? Where? When?". A unique player by profession as a mathematician. She teaches at university.
Valentina Golubeva was born into an ordinary Minsk family in 1954, on November 14. The girl studied well at school, showing leadership inclinations from an early age.
Intellectual club
With humor, she later told in an interview that she had to play in the sandbox with those whom circumstances had sent. But she sought to surround herself at a conscious age only by those who shared her views, realizing the leader’s responsibility for the subordinates.
After school, the graduate entered the Belarusian State University at the Department of Applied Mathematics. Valentina Ivanovna successfully completed her education, wrote and defended her thesis. She worked as an assistant professor at the Belarusian State Polytechnical Academy for several years.
Already a well-formed man, Golubev got into "What? Where? When?" The new player had his own outlook on life and a very extensive stock of knowledge. According to one of the most popular versions in the club, Valentina Ivanovna turned out to be thanks to romantic feelings for one of the players.
After a tough selection in 1982, Golubeva made his game debut. Three years later, she was already a captain. The game fully revealed nature’s leadership potential. Unlike the sandbox partners, Valentina Ivanovna chose for the team of players herself.
She firmly believes that each captain of intellectuals acts according to his own method, creating optimal interaction within the team. The captain has his own secrets. In an interview, she shared one of them with reporters. True, it is difficult to say whether Golubev was joking, saying that he places weak players on his right so as not to see them.
Success and new records
But it is clear: her team has a very high winning ratio. Valentina Ivanovna herself became a record holder. In the entire history of the club, her personal achievement, about three dozen victories, is the second indicator.
She walked around such luminaries as Maxim Potashov and Alexander Druz. Golubeva became a champion in the game. The women's team created by her three decades ago remains the only one in the elite club of intellectuals.
The owner of a pair of "Crystal Owls" was able to become Elizabeth Ovdeenko. The player herself and the unique captain of her “owls” won in 2003 alone, in summer and autumn. The ex-expert is no less proud of his contribution to the introduction of the fashion for appearing in evening low-necked dresses.
Prior to innovation, Valentina Ivanovna with humor spoke about the ban on appearing on the air even with a short sleeve. Teleoperators believed that the full-bodied, in their opinion, hands of all, without exception, intellectual women, it is better not to demonstrate.
Once, against all the rules, Golubeva came to the game in such an open outfit that she heard replicas of shocked employees about the impossibility of such a flagrant violation. All this was said, though in a delighted whisper.
Since that time, beautiful ladies have gained the right to demonstrate not only erudition. In 2005, Golubeva played in the club’s final game. As a spectator, Valentina Ivanovna sometimes attends games in an intellectual casino.
But in 2013, the famous intellectual took part in two television projects at once. She ventured to go to Fort Boyard and HSE. Golubev's “tower” went through to the fourth stage. Her main desire in her work was the desire to inspire beautiful ladies to courageous and difficult actions.
On the project, the participant received a shoulder injury. But several months passed, and Valentina Ivanovna had already set off to conquer the Boyards. At the show, popular around the world, the ex-player's leadership qualities again showed themselves.
