People who know him talk about Genrikh Borovik as about a wise journalist. He saw and learned so much that it would be enough for another for several lives. He has a lot to learn, and most importantly, he is always ready to share his experience, support and suggest.
And he is also called the "legendary journalist", and this is quite justified if you trace his entire life path.
Biography
The future journalist was born in Minsk in 1929. This is not his hometown - just his parents were on tour there. They worked in the theater of musical comedy and lived in a civil marriage. Almost immediately after the birth of their son, the actors went on to delight the cities of the Soviet Union with their creativity.
So several years passed until the Borovik family settled in Pyatigorsk. All of Henry's childhood was spent in this wonderful southern city, where he graduated from school. During the war, the city was captured by the Nazis, and all the actors left for Central Asia. But Soviet troops quickly freed him and everyone returned to their homes.
By the way, Aviezer Borovik and Maria Matveeva, the parents of Henrikh Averyanovich, created the Pyatigorsk Musical Comedy Theater, which the journalist is very proud of. The main thing that he remembered from childhood was the variety of people of different nationalities who lived in Pyatigorsk. Heinrich himself worked in the theater - he helped an electrician and was an "errand boy".
The creative atmosphere of the theater fascinated, captivated and made the boy himself touch art. He began playing the violin and piano, and at the age of fourteen created his own school jazz band. It was 1944, there were many hospitals in the city where soldiers and officers were treated after wounds. Heinrich and his comrades organized concerts in these hospitals - they sang songs to the wounded.
At school, the future journalist studied well, loved German and English, read a lot. As Borovik himself later recalled, he loved to study, to learn new things. He graduated from school with honors and entered MGIMO. After completing his education in 1952, he started working for the Ogonyok magazine. He later recalled what wonderful people there were - front-line journalists.
Journalist career
In 1953, the young employee was transferred to the position of special correspondent for the international department. And trips to "hot spots" began: Hungary, Poland, China, Vietnam, Burma, Sumatra, Indonesia. Each trip was full of dangers and risks.
In 1955 Borovik published his first book of essays on Vietnam. Then he wrote a story, which Sergei Mikhalkov advised to turn into a play. And it was staged at the theater on Malaya Bronnaya - it was the play "The Mutiny of the Unknowns."
During his journalistic life Borovik visited many places. He often thinks about Cuba. After the trip, he wrote the book "The Tale of the Green Lizard" and then directed the documentary "The Burning Island". This tape was shown in many countries of the world.
In 1965, Borovik from the APN went to the United States, where he worked for almost seven years. He also considers this time "hot", because the events of those years were indeed extraordinary: the struggle for the rights of African Americans, the war in Vietnam, peaceful protests of the Americans. Heinrich wrote essays and sent them to Soviet magazines and newspapers, which willingly took these materials.
In December 1972, just before the New Year, Borovik went to Vietnam again. It was there that American planes were bombing Hanoi, and it was very scary. The journalist photographed destroyed houses, people clearing the rubble. And he still remembers the eyes of frightened children who survived the bombing.
Borovik's materials often became a sensation, as, for example, a series of essays about the Nicaraguan partisans - the Sandinistas. Or articles about Chile, where he talked with Salvador Allende himself. It was not long before Pinochet's bloody coup.
Borovik was not afraid for his life - professionalism was always in the foreground. When he went to Afghanistan in 1980, he visited the most dangerous places. However, he did not write essays and a script for a documentary film, because no one would have allowed publishing the truth - it was so terrible. The country hid the true scale of the war and losses on the part of the Soviet troops.
From 1982 to 1985, Genrikh Averyanovich became the editor-in-chief of the Theater magazine and achieved that the circulation of the publication grew significantly. Then he was the secretary of the USSR Writers' Union and communicated with foreign writers and journalists.
When perestroika began, Borovik supported the changes - he believed that "socialism can be democratized." At that time, he became chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee and met with high-ranking officials: he interviewed Ronald Reagan and the Pope. He attended almost all the meetings of M. S. Gorbachev with representatives of foreign countries.
Do not count all the projects, documentaries and radio appearances where Borovik told people the truth: about the Great Patriotic War, about the war in Afghanistan, about the coup of 1991.
And later the journalist tried to convey to everyone the truth that was hidden from ordinary people.
He became an academician, a member of the presidium of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia. He has two USSR State Prizes and many different prizes and awards for his work as a journalist. And in 2003 he was awarded the title of "Legend of Russian Journalism".
Personal life
Heinrich Averyanovich married in 1955. The story of his acquaintance with Galina Mikhailovna Finogenova is similar to a melodramatic film, but it is real. Galina was a young teacher - beautiful and unapproachable. She didn't even talk to strangers on the phone. One day, Herman's comrade got her home phone number and gave it to him, albeit with great difficulty. And he said that it was useless to call her - she would not talk anyway. However, when the young man called Galina, she did not interrupt the conversation. Then he called again, and again the beauty spoke to him. Then they both subconsciously felt that there was some kind of connection between them. Borovik spent a whole year on business trips, and therefore he and Galina had a "telephone romance". And as soon as he arrived in Moscow, they immediately got married.
Soon a daughter, Marisha, was born, four years later, a son, Artem.
When the couple celebrated their golden wedding, they realized that their life was wonderful. And all thanks to the fact that they met each other.
Unfortunately, in 2000 their son Artyom died tragically. The journalist, who has seen a lot in his lifetime, endured this loss steadily. Relatives helped - his wife, Artyom's children, daughter and grandchildren.
Now Henrikh Averyanovich heads the Artyom Borovik Foundation.
