Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotenko

Background

Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotenko was born on November 23, 1934 in the village of Verkhny Mamon, Verkhnemamonsky District, Voronezh Region, Russian Federation

Education

Vladimir Mikhailovich graduated from the Department of History of the Voronezh State University (1962).

Career

Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotenko worked at the television studio (Voronezh Regional Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting, 1963-1965), as a feuilletonist (pseudonym B. Fikusov) of the newspapers "Molodoy Communar" and "Communа" (1965-1990). Founder and Сhief editor of the comic newspaper “Avos!” (Since 1991).

Author of 10 books of satire and humor, including "Love under a pseudonym" (Moscow, 1980), "Horoscope on duty" (Moscow, 1989), "War with the Amazons" (Voronezh, 1999), "Cow on a bicycle" (Voronezh, 2008). The play "The Iron Curtain" in the 1990s went around the scenes of 40 theaters in the country (first staged by the Voronezh Drama Theater, 1988).

Achievements

• Winner of several creative competitions: Voronezh Regional Prize of the Union of Journalists named after M.S. Olminsky (1973), diploma of the magazine "Crocodil" (1974) and others.