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St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The six -time owner of the prestigious prize “Crystal Owl”, the holder of the highest reward of the club of experts - “Diamond Owl”. The repeated winner of the Brain Ring television show and the grandmaster of the intellectual quiz “Own game”. Father, Abram Moiseevich, was born in the Ukrainian Zhitomir, was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, served on the submarine by an submarine engineer, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and two orders of the Red Star, and became a teacher.

Alexander Friends in childhood with her parents Mom, Seine Meerovna, a native of the Mogilev region, participated in the defense of Leningrad, was a nurse of the field hospital. They met after the war, in the year, at the performance in the BDT. Soon they got married, received a room in a communal apartment, where they brought Sasha from the hospital. Druz recalled: we lived on the Petrograd side, on the street of Podkovyrov, where there was no central heating, and we drowned the stove.

When I grew up, I was seven or eight years old, I had to bring firewood for a wood column. Dad gave me a box of vegetables, which I had to disassemble on the planks, carefully break them and cook for furnaces on the day when it was our turn to wash-we lived in a communal apartment. Both parents did not think of life without literature. Their son was only two months old, when dad began to read poetry to him, believing that the baby feels their music and rhythm well.

Father was not mistaken - the child learned to read very early and absorbed books one after another. Sasha was nine years old, he with his parents spent summer with his grandmother from Zhytomyr. Next to the removable dacha was the holiday House named after the XX Party Congress, where adults went to dances and concerts. Once they took a son with them to an intellectual quiz.

Friend won her and received the first prize in his life for knowledge and ingenuity - the book of Vladimir Maksimov “Alive of a Man”. Despite the love of reading, good studies and encyclopedic knowledge, Sasha was not a “greenhouse” child. He played with pleasure in football, sailed, loved traveling with his parents in a car: ... in those days there was a route "in five republics of the USSR in a car." Even special cards were issued with the instructions where you can refuel, stop for the night, and have a bite.

Once, I was 13-14 years old, we made this route. We left St. Petersburg, then three of the Baltic republics to Belarus and Ukraine, and returned from Moscow. The ninth -grader Alexander, the enthusiastic local historian, won the city urban urban quiz “You are Leningradets”. Even then, he began to write a guide to the native city, which eventually came out as much as 45 years later under the name “Petersburg.

Walk around the city. " Friend about the book "Petersburg. On foot in the city ”In the year, Druz entered the industrial and pedagogical college in Leningrad, becoming a master of industrial training and an electrical technician, and then, in the year, entered the Institute of Vladimir Obraztsov railway engineers. As the best student, he was paid an increased scholarship - 60 rubles - but he, then a family person, was not enough this money.

The friend worked as a collector, although the work did not seem interesting to him. Alexander Friend in his youth, having graduated from the university with honors, having received another specialty-an engineer-system. In years, he began to work as a programmer in a company who, among other things, was engaged in television projects. Then a friend came up with the idea of ​​applying for television to participate in the program “What?

A few months later he was called and invited to the competition. The television career and business in the year Alexander, successfully passing the selection, first appeared on central television as part of the three players of the show “What? Later, the players in each team became six. But soon the friend was again in the game. He took part in all ten championships of the world in the sports game of the ChGK.

The first “crystal owl” as the best player received in the year, after which he won this prize five more times, and in the year he became the owner of a “diamond owl”. Alexander Friend at the gaming table is an intellectual club for Alexander is a favorite hobby, but not a way of making money. In parallel with the game, he always worked: a programmer, a teacher in lyceums and specialized educational institutions.

He was engaged in copyright educational programs, was awarded a medal for merits in pedagogical activity. Alexander Druz about books for more than ten years, friend was the head of the St. Petersburg television company "STO", at the same time organized a construction and transport business. He later sold his companies, focusing on educational activities. So, he more than once took part in his game.

Once I won the “Automobile Cup” show, where an expensive foreign car turned out to be a prize. Since friendly had no possibilities for paying her tax at that time, he asked for a monetary equivalent of the car with a deduction of tax. For those money, the player purchased a car easier, and the remaining amount was enough to go with his family to Paris.Boris Burda and Alexander Druz in e Alexander was also an active participant in another intellectual game-Brain Ring, in which the Golden Brain Cup was gaining four times.

In December of the year, scandals were scandal after the participation of two Masters of the ChGK - Alexander Druzi and Viktor Sidnev - in the television show “Who wants to become a millionaire? The players reached the last question, which they answered incorrectly, and left the studio with a non -combustible amount of two hundred thousand rubles. Druz and Sidnev in “Who wants to become a millionaire?

The full issue later, the editor -in -chief of the program, Ilya Ber, accused friends of fraudulent actions. Allegedly, they had a telephone conversation before the program, in which the Master of the ChGK proposed to voice the answers to future questions in return for part of the winnings. The version of Alexander differed exactly the opposite. According to him, Ilya himself offered him the correct answers to the questions, and he allegedly decided to play along and see what would come of it.

In fact, Ber replaced the last five questions, to which the Masters of the ChGC still answered correctly on their own. At the game, they agreed with Sydnev to play until the last question, and then “lost” in the final itself, although Alexander knew the correct answer.

Dvinyatin tells his friends on the decisive round, however, after the scandal arose, during the proceedings and friend and Ber were removed from participation in television games. Only to the anniversary series of games “What? Alexander's personal life is the most important success in life, Alexander calls the marriage of his wife Elena. They were familiar from the first grade, but after the third Lena and her family moved to another district.

Sasha came to her birthdays, but then he had other interests and new friends. Alexander Friend with his wife and daughters in the ninth grade, Sasha decided to congratulate all the familiar girls on the International Women's Day, and Lena made an appointment, after which they began to see constantly. The girl joked that she began to meet with her friend from mercantile reasons: he did her homework in physics and mathematics for her.

The wedding was played in the year when Elena was a doctor without five minutes, and Alexander was an engineer-system. A year later, their daughter Inna was born, and in the year the second girl, who was called Marina, was born in the year. Both daughters graduated from St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance, freely speak foreign languages, participants in the game “What?

The handsome man was named by the show in honor of the Hollywood actor Sean Connery. In the year, the cat fell ill and died. Alexander Druzia’s cat admitted that he likes to be in the family circle in which he is gaining strength. Family members became the prototypes of his book "Enya, Thomas and others." Alexander Druz now the country's chief intellectual has already become a pensioner, but continues to work on creative projects, conducts trainings, participated in the game season “What?

On foot in the city ”and“ Enya, Thomas and others ”. In the continuation of the children's book, new characters will appear who are waiting for adventure. Interesting facts Alexander Druz flew “forever” from the game “What? Then the presenter Vladimir Voroshilov held a spectator vote and his beloved player was returned to the table with the legendary wolf. Forever remembered the master of the ChGK his first question, to which he found the correct answer.

Kholmogorsk viewer asked the question of smalt, which was used in the manufacture of mosaics. Multi -colored pebbles lay on the table, and the man was interested in the connection between them and his hometown. This version was correct. When a friend was recognized as the best player in Armenia, he, in addition to the owl, was awarded a separate prize: a five -liter canil in the form of a double -headed eagle filled with vodka.

At the customs, it turned out that only two liters can be exported. The master immediately offered to drink extra liters, customs officers laughed and missed an expert. Another customs curiosity happened when leaving Uzbekistan. A connoisseur was carrying an ingot with him, on which the inscription was engraved: "1 kg of gold to Alexander from the CIA." The inspector tensed, but after reading the paper attached to the ingot, he released.

The document stated that this gift is really from the CIA - the central ore control of the city of Zravshan and contains a alloy of stainless steel and titanium, although it was there that gold was produced. Important events in life year: married an classmate Elena. He was awarded the Order of Diamond Star. I won the "Automobile Cup" in the intellectual program "My Game".

He became a participant in the expert in the Israeli Eilat. He participated in the programs "Big Races", "Closed show", "Club of famous hooligans." He became the owner of a "diamond owl." He was a member of the game "Guess the Melody." He became a guest of the program "Alone with everyone." He starred in the documentary "Until the first cry of the Owl", created for the anniversary of the program "What?

He became a member of the program "Maximmaxim". He published the books “Guide to St. Petersburg. On foot in the city ”and“ Enya, Thomas and others ”.