Ivan Rudskoy - aka Ivangai, the most popular video blogger in the CIS countries and Russia. Was born and raised in Ukraine. Also, his channel on the video hosting YouTube has long been one of the fastest growing entertainment channels.
Short biography and family
Ivan Romanovich Rudskoy was born in Ukraine, in the village of Alexandria, Shirokovsky district, Dnepropetrovsk region. Date of birth January 19, 1996. His family had nothing to do with creative activity. Mom is an economist and dad is a veterinarian. Ivangai has two younger sisters who also have channels on the YouTube video hosting service. It was with them, in high school, that he moved to the village of Ingulets (District of Krivoy Rog).
Vanya showed learning abilities from early childhood. Already at the age of 3, he could speak well, read and tried to learn English under the guidance of his father. It is not surprising that Ivan later graduated from high school with honors. In addition, the young man studied at an art and music school, studied singing and playing the guitar, and also attended judo training.
Then he entered the Dnipropetrovsk National University (currently Dnipro National University) at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, but decided to stop studying before graduating from the university and moved from Ukraine to Russia (to Moscow).
In 2017, I decided to enroll in the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology. Receives education in English. His younger sisters Daria and Sophia decided to devote their lives to design and entered the appropriate faculty.
Career and creativity
Ivan visits the YouTube video portal for the first time at the age of 13. At that time, the teenager himself was just watching videos, but after a few years he got the idea to create his own channel.
It was registered on March 19, 2013. At that time, Vanya was still in 11th grade. Initially, most of his videos were associated with the popular game "Minecraft" at that time. But still the first video was a musical, performed in the style of rap "Song of the nerd". Due to this song, Rudskoy gained popularity and respect at school.
And already in 2015, Vanya took part in the filming of YouTube Rewind, the Lenovo advertising campaign and the Videofan festival, won the Like-2015 prize, which was held as part of the Vidfest festival, in the category “Like for lifestyle”.
In June 2016, the head of YouTube for the European, Middle East and African regions Stephen Nuttell paid a visit to Moscow and called Ivan the most popular and famous blogger in Russia.
Already in November 2016, the number of subscribers of Ivan Rudskiy's channel exceeded the mark of 10 million users, as a result of which he became the owner of the YouTube award, namely, he received a diamond button. The total number of views of his videos at that time exceeded 2 billion. In the same year he was invited to shoot in the program "Evening Urgant".
In April 2017, Moscow hosted a festival related to Japanese culture in the Russian Federation, "Hinode Power Japan", to which Ivangai came, and where he eventually met with subscribers right at the Nintendo booth.
At the moment, Ivan Rudskoy has suspended his blogging activities and is seriously busy with his studies. The last video was released on September 22, 2017.
Personal life
For a long time he was in a relationship with also a very famous blogger Maryana Rozhkova (Maryana Ro). The couple broke up at the end of 2016. At the moment, there is no exact information about the personal life of Ivan Rudsky.
