Russian journalist and video blogger Yuri Dud is famous for his author's show "vDud", which he hosts on the Youtube channel and in which he interviews celebrities in the field of politics, business, the Internet, media, TV, theater, cinema and show business, as well as uploads his own documentary films. Officially, he works as a deputy general director of the online edition Sports.ru. His wife is Olga Boneva, children are Alena (born in 2008) and Daniil (born in 2012).
Biography of Dudya
Yuri was born in 1986 in the German Democratic Republic, in the city of Potsdam. According to him, he is Ukrainian by origin and Russian at heart. The Dudya family moved to our country in 1990, when the boy was four years old. As a child, he often visited Ukraine, where all his grandparents lived.
Father - Head of the Military Department of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor, Member of the Academy of Military Sciences. Currently, he is a pensioner. Mother is a chemistry teacher at the Moscow Olympic Reserve College. In the 90s she worked as a financier in a little-known company. She is currently raising her grandchildren.
As a child, until the 4th grade, he was fond of football, but left it due to a serious injury to the knee joint and because of the onset of bronchial asthma. Not being able to go in for sports, he became interested in journalism: in the fifth grade he wrote notes for the "Youth newspaper". At the age of 13, he began to earn money in the newspaper "Segodnya". In 2001, when Yuri was only 14 years old, he already worked as a freelance employee of the Izvestia newspaper, in which he became a full-fledged full-time correspondent upon reaching the age of 16. At the age of 19 he went to work in the PROsport magazine.
Higher education - Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), graduated in 2008.
Yuri Dud leads a sports lifestyle, does not smoke, regularly goes to the gym. On his pages in social networks, he publishes a video with football tricks, with a daily routine and a healthy diet developed by him, with his author's exercises for gaining a beautiful body.
He rarely uses his own car, preferring to travel around Moscow by metro. In music he prefers ska-punk.
Television career
At the age of 25, Yuri Dud decided to make a career on TV. In 2011, he got a job as a special correspondent and commentator in the sports department of NTV Plus, hosted morning programs on City FM radio.
At the end of the same year, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the online edition Sports.ru. In 2018, he rose to the position of deputy general director in this project.
In 2012-2013, he successfully combined his main job with the work of a sports commentator on the Russia-2 TV channels and VGTRK Sport 1. He was the host of a series of documentaries about the life of the football club "Sparta".
In 2015-2017, he created and hosted the author's TV show "Cult of the Tour" on the Match TV channel, dedicated to stories about the first football players and football coaches in Russia.
In 2017 he launched his own show "vDud" on YouTube. The show has gained wide popularity among Internet users thanks to the original ging, the use of obscene language by the host and his guests, as well as Yuri's ability to make his interlocutors talk, including on uncomfortable topics. One of the most famous interviews - with Pavel Grudinin, during which they made a bet that if the presidential candidate does not collect 15% of the vote, he will have to shave off his mustache. Gdrudinin gained only 12% and was forced to fulfill his promise.
Participated in an advertising campaign for the mobile operator Beeline, the Alfa Bank brand and the Head & Shoulders brand.
In 2018, he performed the role of a cameo in the video by Vasya Oblomov (Vasily Goncharov) "Take the garbage". He was also one of the official commentators of the FIFA World Cup, although Dud made his first reports in the FIFA World Cup back in 2006.
In the ranking of famous Russian personalities, according to Forbes, it takes 50th place. In the ranking of the richest Russian bloggers, Dud ranks fourth.
Two-time winner of the "Person of the Year" awards in 2016 and 2017 according to the GQ magazine (Gentlemen’s Quarterly). For his documentary film "Sergei Bodrov - the main Russian superhero" he received the professional journalism award "Editorial Board", established by the Sreda Foundation to support free professional journalism.
Personal life
Yuri Dud carefully protects his wife and daughters from the eyes of journalists. At all official events, he invariably appears in splendid isolation. Even on the pages of Dud's social networks there is not a single hint of his family life, although there are more than enough posts about beautiful girls.
The fact that Yuri is married and has children can only be guessed by the tattoos on his arms. According to Dud, his wife is an intelligent and loving woman who is calm about his work and the costs associated with it.
Yuri and Olga met during their studies at the university. Olga studied at the same Moscow State University, but at the Faculty of Foreign Languages. After studying, she did not work anywhere, she devoted herself to her husband and children.
Olga avoids fame, publishes her photos only for a limited circle of relatives and friends. There is almost no information on the network about her. Olga and Yuri's favorite vacation spot is sunny Ibiza. Children with them on vacation are not yet taken.
Olga's personal pages on social networks contain little information, mainly photos from her holidays in Spain.
In 2008, Olga gave her husband a daughter, Alena, and in 2012, a son, Daniel. Children are seriously fond of sports and attend sports sections: Alena - gymnastics and dancing, Daniil - football. Yuri tries to be a responsible father, actively participates in raising children, spends a lot of time with them.
According to Dud, he is not such an exemplary family man. Regularly, 2 times a month, he spends the evening separately from the family, gets drunk with friends in the men's company, dances a lot.
In one of the last episodes of the show "vDud", his wife Olga became the hero of the program. In it, she demonstrated her ability to dance well and also displayed other artistic talents.
