Today it is already impossible to imagine the beloved throughout the country TV program "Field of Miracles" without its permanent host and man of the era - Leonid Yakubovich. He devoted his entire life to professional activities in the field of journalism and television. However, the army of grateful fans wants to learn more about interesting facts from his life, including information about family relationships. It is known that the people's favorite was married three times. Moreover, there is almost no data about the first darling, but the second and third marriages are replete with details.
Leonid Arkadievich Yakubovich is a native Muscovite. He was born on July 31, 1945 in the family of a military man and a doctor. The story of his parents' acquaintance is noteworthy. During the Great Patriotic War, the future mother of Leonid - Rimma Semyonovna Schenker - sent, like many in those years, warm clothes for the soldiers. One such parcel accidentally fell into the hands of Arkady Solomonovich Yakubovich. Finding in her knitted woolen mittens for one hand, the gallant officer was very moved by the absent-mindedness of the caring needlewoman and decided to express his gratitude to her in a letter. A friendly correspondence ensued. And after a while he arrived in the capital to receive the order, where a significant meeting of the future parents of Leonid took place.
Brief biography of Leonid Yakubovich
Childhood and adolescence of Leonid Yakubovich passed, like many of his metropolitan peers. He grew up as a very inquisitive child, who showed remarkable artistic abilities. Therefore, after receiving a certificate of maturity, the young man decided to enter the theater university.
However, before realizing his dream, at the urgent request of his father, who recommended him to get a "serious" profession, he entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, during which he entered the stage of the Theater of Student Miniatures. And after a while, the young talent decided to transfer to a civil engineering institute. Here Leonid was already able to perform in the KVN team of his university. At the same eventful time, his acquaintance with his first wife Galina Antonova happened.
After graduation, Yakubovich was assigned to the Likhachev plant. But he was not going to devote himself to a technical career, because humoresques and scripts were his vocation. And therefore, after a while, Leonid was invited to the committee of professional metropolitan playwrights, working in which he was already able to fully realize himself as a stage artist. His list of thematic works today consists of three hundred works. For example, his "Sergeant Major's Monologue", talentedly performed by Vladimir Vinokur, became a real visiting card during his creative development. Another authoritative performer, Yevgeny Petrosyan, did not ignore his works.
Cinematography, television and other facts from the artist's life
The multifaceted talent of Leonid Yakubovich was also realized in the field of cinema, in which he made his debut in 1980. His filmography is filled today with a number of film works, among which it is especially worth highlighting the film projects with his participation "Once Twenty Years Later" and "Kill a Carp". However, the "Field of Miracles" program helped him become truly popular, where he replaced Vladislav Listyev as a TV presenter.
The ingenious ability to improvise, charismatic character and indescribable charm helped Leonid Arkadievich to become the face of Channel One. Moreover, in his contract with the employer a separate clause spelled out the provision: "Do not shave off the mustache."An important fact is that throughout his professional career, a popular artist never took up work if it did not correspond to his idea of honor and dignity.
Since the age of fifty, Yakubovich has been fond of sports planes. And besides that, his interests include auto racing, skiing, bullet shooting, cooking, billiards, preference and collecting coins and reference books.
Interesting facts and work in recent years
In 2001, Leonid Arkadyevich, being in his own car with his wife and granddaughter, knocked down a pedestrian to death, who turned out to be a certain Sergei Nikitenko who had arrived from Kyrgyzstan to work. The thirty-year-old man himself was to blame for the tragic outcome. However, the popular artist was very worried about what happened for a long time.
And since 2004, Yakubovich has been a member of the United Russia political party. It is noteworthy that in February 2012, during the presidential campaign of V. V. Putin, he was included in the list of his confidants.
2014 entered the creative treasury of L. A. Yakubovich by the fact that he became the producer and screenwriter of the television comedy film "The Grandfather of My Dreams", for the release of which he was awarded the "Best Actor" award. And in 2016, together with Alexander Strizhenov, he hosted a talk show "Star on a Star" (channel "Star"), where the popular duet conducted intimate conversations with public people.
Personal life of the artist
The first wife of a popular artist was Galina Antonova, whom she met during her student years. By the way, while studying at a construction university, Leonid Yakubovich was friends with Gennady Khazanov, who received higher education there. Galina performed at the VIA "Citizens", and Leonid performed at the KVN Institute. The rapprochement of hot hearts happened during a concert tour in Issyk-Kul. The fifth year was for them the year of the formation of a new unit of society. Moreover, Khazanov was a witness at the wedding. The wife did not take her husband's surname due to the difficulty of re-issuing an already received diploma. And then the son Artyom was born, who was given the mother's surname.
In subsequent years, according to a friend of Yakubovich, Kostya Schreiber, information appeared in the press that before Antonova, in his second year, he already had a wife who was studying at that time at a vocational school, because of which he was, as they say, crazy. However, this story of his life is covered with sufficient mystery and darkness.
After the wedding, the newlyweds lived with Leonid's parents. After the birth of her son Artyom, his wife did not work, doing household chores. And before the invitation to the "Field of Miracles", when the family was forced to return to Moscow, they moved to the Ivanovo region, where Yakubovich worked.
Currently, Artem works on Channel One, graduating from a financial university and initially having time to prove himself in entrepreneurial activity. At the beginning of the "nineties" there was a separation of the spouses, the reason for which was the appearance of a new love in Yakubovich's life.
The artist's second wife was Marina Vido, an employee of the VID advertising studio. The office romance got its vivid continuation thanks to a joint business trip, which took place in the comfortable conditions of a motor ship operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Then a very young girl became a real muse of Leonid Yakubovich. It is noteworthy that at the end of the business trip, they retained their relationship in the status of "civil", deciding not to burden their freedom-loving natures with the "workdays" of family life.
Despite the fact that there is a significant age difference between Yakubovich and Vido, which is eighteen years, their relationship is still romantic and passionate. In their family in 1998, a daughter, Barbara, was born. However, no reason could change their established way of relations, according to which they live separately and meet only once or twice a week. Leonid Arkadyevich prefers to live in a city apartment in the center of Moscow, and his wife and daughter - in a country house. According to the spouses themselves, it is their unconventional approach to family relationships that allows them to maintain love and mutual attraction for many years.
