Mikhail Solomonovich Gusman has been one of the leaders of TASS for many years. He is also known as a prominent Russian journalist, translator, radio and television presenter. In 2002, Mikhail Gusman was awarded the State Prize of Russia for his contribution to journalism.
From the biography of Mikhail Solomonovich Gusman
The future journalist and TV presenter was born in Baku on January 23, 1950. Guzman's father was a lieutenant colonel in the medical service, during the war years he served as the chief physician of the Caspian military flotilla. Mom was an actress, then a translator, a professor at the Azerbaijan Institute of Foreign Languages. Mikhail has an equally famous older brother, Julius.
In 1970, the younger Guzman graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages in Baku, three years later - from the Higher Party School. After that, Mikhail Gusman worked for more than ten years in the Committee of Youth Organizations of Azerbaijan, then headed the press center of the Committee of Youth Organizations of the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the USSR, Mikhail Solomonovich worked in various positions in Russian news agencies. In 1999, he became one of the deputy general directors of ITAR-TASS, and then the first deputy head of this agency.
Mikhail Gusman about himself
Guzman not only enjoys interviewing. Sometimes he himself talks about his family and life.
Gusman's great-grandfather lived for a long time in Ukraine, where he had his own mill near Yenikayev. In the 19th century, an oil boom began in the world. Part of my grandfather's large family went to make money in Baku, then the center of the Russian oil industry.
Mikhail Solomonovich maintains a close relationship with his older brother Julius. Both Guzmans have an excellent sense of humor and self-irony. Mikhail considers himself not an official, not a journalist or an internationalist, but a historical optimist.
Mikhail calls himself a late child - when he was born, his father was 46 years old. Mikhail considers his mother a woman of amazing mind and talent. She was well versed in English philology. She chose linguistics for herself after meeting with her future husband. To do this, she had to abandon her theatrical career.
The mother of Mikhail and Yulia raised a whole layer in linguistics: her doctoral dissertation was devoted to the problem of bilingualism, which was new for its time. From her, apparently, the love for foreign languages was passed on to Mikhail.
Information flow manager
Over the years of his journalistic activity, Mikhail Gusman has taken more than three hundred interviews. Among the guests in his studio were the first persons of states. As an international journalist, Guzman has traveled almost the entire planet.
Those who know Mikhail Solomonovich well note his talent as an interlocutor, polemicist and advisor. He is always tactful and never publicly comments on his colleagues' work. He speaks with any person respectfully, with great understanding. The Deputy Director of TASS believes that each employee of the agency does his job as best he can, in accordance with his education and abilities.
