Elena Potanina: fame and popularity come to the worthy

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Elena Alexandrovna Potanina gained wide popularity and popularity after participating in the TV show “What? Where? When?”, where she became the captain of the team.

Biography

Elena Potanina, who was born in Novosibirsk in 1987, on November 20, already at the age of three, together with her parents, Olga and Alexander Potanin, ended up in Odessa, where they moved to permanent residence. Currently lives in Moscow. Elena Potanina, whose biography is full of a large number of events, was able not only to get an excellent education and make a good career now, but also won the sympathy of viewers who are interested in intellectual TV shows.

Education

After graduating from school in 2004, Elena Potanina entered the I. I. Mechnikov National University in Odessa, from which she successfully graduated in 2009 with a degree in criminal law and criminology. Additionally, from 2014 to 2015, she studied at the Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov, as a result of which she received a second speci alty in economics in the field of management.

Work experience

YurKraina Law Firm where Elena Potanina visited in FebruaryIn 2010, she began her career as a partner, which gave an opportunity to a novice lawyer to get her first experience in this field. In 2012, Elena leaves for Russia and goes to work in Moscow on the Russia Today (RT) TV channel, where she worked until May 2014 as a press secretary. During this period, she was engaged in the promotion of the TV channel, took part in the organization of international forums, summits, exhibitions, competitions held around the world.

It should be noted that RT is not just a television channel, but a whole television network of three information channels broadcasting around the clock from Moscow around the world and covering more than 100 countries. Broadcasting is in five languages: Russian, English, Spanish, Arabic, French. RT's own studios are located in world capitals such as Washington and London. In addition, RT includes the RTD documentary channel, the RUPTLY video news agency, whose exclusive materials are used by most of the world's TV channels. RT is the only Russian TV channel to have been nominated for the prestigious Emmy three times in the news industry. More than 700 million viewers around the world already have round-the-clock access to the channel.

From January 2014, Elena Potanina began to cooperate with the RD Studio company, which shoots documentaries, and in May of the same year she moved there to a permanent job as a co-producer of Valdis Pelsh. She is currently working there as well. Parallel Elenafrom May 2014 to February 2015, she was engaged as a press secretary in the promotion of the company "YUST", specializing in jurisprudence.

YUST Law Firm brings together leading Russian experts in the field of advocacy and claims to be one of the most professional and reliable Russian law firms. Has extensive judicial practice.

Main Projects

In the sports version of the TV game “What? Where? When?" Elena Potanina began to take part from the age of 12, and in 2006 she made her debut as a member of the women's team of the connoisseurs club. In 2009, Elena became the captain of the Russian team “What? Where? When?”, which won the Cup of Nations, held in the same year in the city of Kirov. She is one of the best players on the team, which she proved by her participation in the World Championship in Eilat, Israel. She was invited and took part in many television programs, since 2009 she has been the editor of "Brain Ring" - a popular program of the television company "Game". In 2008 and 2009 she edited the Ukrainian version of the TV show What? Where? When?”.

Media about Elena Potanina

Elena Potanina is an outstanding personality, and therefore enjoys constant attention from the press and often gives interviews. She is not afraid to answer frank questions about the internal relations between the players of the club of connoisseurs, she has her own opinion about the specifics of the game. When asked about the willingness to take risks in the game, he answers in the affirmative, citing the first game of the 2015 summer season as an example. During the game, a difficult situation arose:the team lost with a score of 2:5 to the viewers. Any wrong answer could be the team's last in the game. And here is the next question, which experts cannot answer in one minute. Then, by Elena's decision, a credit minute was taken, and the experts were able to give the correct answer. Then there was a blitz, and again a victory. And the team won. And Elena also wants to become the first woman to receive the title of the best captain of the game “What? Where? When?”.

Private life

To the majority of viewers who have been watching the program “What? Where? When?”, Empathizing with the erudite players, Elena Potanina is not indifferent, whose personal life arouses their genuine interest. The great interest is partly due to the fact that Elena is constantly in public.

Elena Potanina, whose photo is shown above with Ilya Novikov, was considered the bride of this famous Russian lawyer and player of the television show “What? Where? When? During one of the broadcasts, Elena announced the acceptance of Ilya's proposal for marriage. Many subsequently believed that Ilya Novikov was the husband of Elena Potanina. But it was not so. For a fairly long period, fans watched the development of the couple's relationship, which, in the presence of the same vital interests, also looked harmonious. But fans were disappointed - the couple broke off their relationship. Ilya Novikov married Anastasia Shutova, also a member of the connoisseurs club. Elena Potanina herself considers her personal life quite active.