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So, this time the editors prepared a selection of interesting facts and exclusive photos of the presenter Svyatoslav Grinchuk.

Svyatoslav Grinchuk - born on January 16, 1985 in Lviv. As a child, Svyatoslav played the violin and a little on the piano. He loved to read various gazetteers, especially about Africa. Now he wonders why, despite all this, he has not yet been to Africa.

In school, he came up with his own football championship. Conducted virtual competitions in the notebook. I wrote down the results of matches, who scored a goal, all teams and players, of course, were invented. Football will remain Svyatoslav's favorite sport in the future. I was an excellent student at school, my favorite subject was history. He sang in the children's choir, with which he even went on tour. So I went abroad for the first time. Since childhood, Svyatoslav dreamed of becoming a journalist.

And in the 2nd grade he wanted Saint Nicholas to give him a typewriter, asked him for it in letters. Now, when every day he types his texts on the keyboard, he jokes that Nikolai just postponed the gift for several years.

In the 10th grade, Svyatoslav began to play \? Where? When " He still continues to play, although due to the move to Kiev, several teams had to be changed.

When I entered Lviv University at the Faculty of Journalism, for several years I played in the faculty team of KVN - " He remembers his funny role - he had to stick over his underwear with posters with annoying election campaigning, which everyone really didn’t like - to run onto the stage and scare people.

In 2006, he graduated with honors from the Ivan Franko Lviv National University, Department of Television and Radio Broadcasting, got his first full-time job only after graduation.

Due to the fact that he was always interested in football, he went to work in a football TV program, where he did reports and interviews with local athletes. But not only with the locals: he still remembers when the Scotland girls' team came to the city and it was he who was sent to record interviews with the girls. They turned out to be very funny, constantly joking about each other, in the end from a multi-minute interview - then it turned out that 90 percent - everyone was just laughing.

At the same time, together with fellow TV people, they created a football team called " Explains: such a name is because the team showed the results, to put it mildly, not very successful.

In 2010, Grinchuk was already a TV presenter, he moved to Kiev, where he also worked with sports topics. Since then, he attended two European Championships and the FIFA World Cup, flew two dozen countries around the world.

In 2016, he decided to come to the casting of the host TSN, although, he admitted, he did not really believe in his success. In the end, everything worked out - and since then, together with Marichka Padalko, Svyatoslav has been leading the morning issues of TSN.

Conducts live broadcasts not only from the studio, but also simply from the center of Kiev, Lvov, Uzhgorod, Krivoy Rog and Odessa within the framework of various special projects of TSN. I had to tell the news live from dangerous locations, when TSN, for example, set up its studio near the warehouses of military shells, where fires and explosions continued at that time.

And in 2018 I remembered my sports past when I spent more than a month in South Korea at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, covering them for news. Grabbed from there in memory of a small toy tiger, which still remains one of his daughter's favorite toys..

The following year, together with Maria Padalko, Svyatoslav took part in the Connecting Women conference. This event aimed to inspire and motivate women, brought together experts from different industries, in particular, media professionals, coaches, doctors and businesswoman..

In November 2020, the European Business Association invited Svyatoslav to hold its general meeting, which was attended by many businessmen, officials and diplomats.. Among them - Mrs. Ambassador of Great Britain Melinda Simmons, Head of the International Monetary Fund in Ukraine Jost Lyngman, Charge d'Affaires of the United States in Ukraine Christina Queen. Here Svyatoslav also met with the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas.

And at the beginning of December in 2020, Grinchuk became a guest at the Ukrainian Fashion Industry Awards 2020, where he was awarded, in particular, the winner in the "

Svyatoslav has been married since 2017. I met my future wife Christina in the 10th grade, while studying at the school of journalism. It was 2000. Then they studied at the university together and were just friends for a long time. They met for 11 years before getting married. The wedding took place in Odessa. And soon the couple had a daughter Dzvinka. She recently turned 3.

In an interview with Katya Osadchy, Svyatoslav admitted that giving this rather rare Ukrainian name to his daughter was the idea of \u200b\u200bhis wife. Since before the birth of the first-born, the wife agreed that if there is a girl, the mother gives the name, and if the boy, then he.

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