Alexey Lvovich Popov (russian: Алексей Львович Попов; July 13, 1974 in Moscow) is a Russian journalist and TV commentator best known as a commentator on

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racing.

Biography

His

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race Popov saw in 1988 in

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- his grandfather worked in the Trade Mission of the USSR. Career as a journalist he began in 1991 in the newspaper ''

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''. Later he wrote many books, including, magazine ''Formula +'', ''Autosport'', ''Grand Prix'', ''F1Life'', the newspaper '' Soviet Sport''. He began race commentary in 1992 on the TV channel

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. In the same year he became a member of the company ''Samipa'' (Monaco), which owned the television rights to broadcast

races in the former USSR. Then he moved to Monaco where he did the production of ''Chrono'' TV program. At that time, he was commenting CART and NASCAR races on the French TV channel AB Moteurs. Since 1996, he resumed working on Russian television. Was nominated for

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award in 2000, but lost it to

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. In 2005, 2009 and 2011-2012, Popov led channel

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program '' Grand Prix with Alexey Popov''. Popov is often called Russian voice of Formula 1. Since February 2007 to May 2013 - the permanent presenter of the ''Week of sports'', led it in turn with

Dmitry Guberniev Dmitry Viktorovich Guberniev (russian: Дми́трий Ви́кторович Губе́рниев; born October 6, 1974, Drezna, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian TV presenter, sports commentator of TV channel Match TV. Previously, ...

. Since November 2015 he works on Match TV channel. He speaks many European languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English and others, in varying degrees.

Personal life

Divorced, he has three children from two prior marriages. His first wife is French, and the mother of two sons.

Work on Russian television

*1992 — RTR *1996 — RTR *1997-1999 — TV Centr *2000-2002 — RTR *2002-2005 —

and

*2006 —

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*2007-2009 — Russia 2 * 2010-2015 — Russia 2 and Sport-1 * November 1, 2015 – present — Match TV

References

External links

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Блог на сайте телеканала «Спорт»

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