Andrey Leontiev (photo:below) is a Russian television producer, journalist, presenter, traveler and racer. The author of programs on the channel "Auto Plus". He has been driving for 28 years. And in automotive journalism is working 23 years. The article will present his brief biography.
Study and work
Leontyev Andrew was born in Moscow in 1969year. Father - Igor Alekseevich - aviation engineer, and mother - Carmen Vieska - a teacher of the Spanish language. From an early age, the boy was interested in aviation and automotive engineering. In high school Andrey went to a circle of a young motorist and went in for karting.
In 1985, the young man graduated from school and fileddocuments in MGIMO at the Faculty of Journalism. Leontyev started working during his studies, both in central ("abroad", "Izvestia"), and in regional newspapers. Andrei graduated from the institute in 1991, just during the dramatic events in the history of Russia. Leontiev did not want to cooperate with the media, which have a radical position on both sides. Therefore, the young man decided to change his profession, engaging in entrepreneurial activities in the field of advertising and real estate.
TV
In journalism, Andrei Leontiev returned in 1992year, when the first specialized program "Auto Show" appeared on domestic TV. The young man happily joined the newborn collective, which was assembled by a famous TV host and producer Nikolai Petrov. Here Andrey met Alexei Khresin, Sergey Aslanyan, Alexander Pikulenko and Elena Sadova. With the last hero of this article works to this day.
New projects
In 1996 Leontyev became the maineditor of the "Auto Show" program. In parallel, he was engaged in another project, which organized the "Aqua Vita" - the production company of Nikolai Petrov. These were "Races for survival", and Leontiev became not only the host of the program, but also its direct participant. At the same time, Andrey worked for Radio 7 (he was on the morning air and was in charge of the information service), he made an automobile transfer to RTR and worked in the announcer department of "Business Russia". In the latter, Leontief was lucky enough to work with such stars as Elena Starostina, Elena Nefedova, Pyotr Kuleshov and Igor Kochergin. Well, the head of the department was the legendary Igor Kirillov.
In 1997Together with Mikhail Gurevich, the hero of this article led a car column in the program "Good Morning, Russia". In 1996-1999 he worked in several social non-automotive projects together with the composer, poet and TV journalist Maria Chugraeva. In 1998 Leontyev Andrey, at the invitation of the "New Company", headed the program "In the world of motors", broadcast on the first channel. And she was led by Tatyana Maslennikova. Subsequently, he became the chief director of the "New Company" on such projects as "Good Morning" and "Morning on Channel 1".
Own channel
In 2002, Leontyev thought about creatingof your project. The journalist began to develop the concept of satellite and cable around the clock channel, specializing in motor subjects. Soon Andrey began to search for an investor. It was possible to find it only with the fourth attempt. The need for the Leontief project originated with the holding company Red Media. The new channel "Auto Plus" appeared on the air on September 5, 2006. Andrew completely devoted himself to this project.
LAV Productions
In 2010, Leontyev had seriousDisagreements with the leadership of Red Media about the organization of production and ways to develop the channel. Therefore, the journalist had to leave the project created by him. Together with Andrew left almost the whole team. Soon the hero of this article on a couple with a school friend Alexander Vorobyov opened his own company LAV Productions. The company immediately started production of programs for other satellite and federal channels. On RBC TV came the program Autonews, on TVC - "Automobile mood", and on "Zvezda" - "Weekend on wheels".
After a while, Andrei Leontiev, biographywhich is presented above, received from Red Media a proposal to resume cooperation. The journalist gladly accepted it. At the moment, LAV Productions makes eighteen television programs of different themes. Programs are created for cable and satellite channels while maintaining cooperation with regular partners: Auto Plus, TVC and RBC.
Leontyev Andrey: personal life
Leading it does not advertise and does not like to communicate onthis topic. Therefore, there is practically no information about Leontiev's personal life. It is only known that he has a daughter. The journalist mentioned this in one of his interviews.
