TV presenter Elena Hanga: biography, personal life

90th years of the last century were marked by the appearance of new faces on television. They came to be replaced by a strict leader in stiff formal suits. Among them was Elena Khanga. The biography of this "sportswoman, Komsomol and beauty" and her family tree are of great interest to everyone who at one time enjoyed watching the TV projets "About this" and "The Domino Principle".

Mother

Elena Khanga, whose biography is presented below, is the daughter of Leah Oliverovna Golden. The woman was born in 1934 in the city of Tashkent in the family of Oliver Golden, a black specialist in cotton growing.

Elena Hangi's great-grandfather - Hillard - was a slave, but after the Civil War in the United States became a rich planter in Mississippi. His wife Catherine was half Indian.

Lia's mother, Bertha Bialik, came from a Jewish family who moved to the United States from Poland. The Golden family emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1931, as interracial marriages were banned in the United States at that time .

Liya Oliverovna in her youth was a tennis player and played for the national team of the Uzbek SSR. She graduated from the Faculty of History and the postgraduate course of Moscow State University, became a candidate of science. She was a professor at the University of Chicago.

Father

Elena Hanga (biography, personal life and TV presenter projects always interested her fans) got her name from her father. He was a famous revolutionary, a graduate of Oxford University and died in prison. Abdul Kassim Hanga met Liya Oliverovna in Moscow when she was sent to the University of Friendship of Peoples to return to her important post in her native Zanzibar. They were married, and in May 1962 they had a daughter, Elena. Two years later, Abdul Kassim Hanga briefly became prime minister of Zanzibar. As a result of the coup d'état, he was removed from his post and taken into custody. He was killed in prison in 1969.

Biography of Elena Hangi in his youth

The little girl saw her father, and when he died, she was not even 7 years old. Her upbringing involved mom and grandmother, who taught Lena bravely to meet any difficulties.

The future famous TV presenter had a wide range of interests since childhood. In particular, she was engaged in tennis with Anna Dmitrieva and played for CSK. In addition, since Liya Oliverovna was fluent in English, Elena quickly mastered it. This allowed her to pass an internship in New York and Harvard at the end of the journalism faculty of Moscow University.

Career in journalism

Elena Khanga (biography of her parents is represented above) began her working career in the newspaper Moskovskie Novosti. In the midst of perestroika, she was sent to Boston at the invitation of Christian Scince Monitor. Returning home, Hanga continued to engage in journalism. After 2 years, Elena again went to the United States, but already at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation. There she stayed until 1997.

While working in the USA, Elena Khanga, whose biography, like herself, was then unknown to most Russians, traveled all over America and told everywhere about life in the Soviet Union. During travel she had the idea to write a book in which her genealogical tree and the destinies of her ancestors and relatives who lived on different continents were studied in detail. For this, she flew to Africa and England and spent whole days in the archives. When in 1992 the book of Elena Hangi was published in the US, it became a bestseller.

On TV

In the early 90's Elena was invited to the TV by Vladislav Listiev and several times appeared before the audience in the super popular TV show "Vzglyad". There was an important meeting for her career with Leonid Parfenov.

Later, Hanga did sport reports on NTV television channel, and since 1997 she was conducting the program "About this". This scandalous talk show on sexual themes was published for 3 years and was extremely popular, especially among young people. It entered the Book of Records, and an article in The New York Times was even devoted to him.

In 1998, TV presenter Elena Hanga (biography in recent years presented below), along with Leonid Parfenov appeared in front of TV viewers in the pilot pilot release of the popular TV project "The Russians in Fort Bayard" with Russian participants.

No less interesting was the talk show "Domino Principle", which was broadcast from 2001 to 2006. The Hangi co-ordinators in different years were such recognized beauties as Dana Borisova and Elena Ischeeva.

In addition, in 2001, the TV host published her second book "About all and about it", dedicating it to Leah Oliverovna and G. Gerasimov, whom he considers to be his mentor in the professional sphere.

Activities in recent years

From 2011 to 2014, Elena Hanga conducted the program "With the remote control of life", going to "KP-TV".

Since 2009, she has been working for Russia Today in the Talk Talk talk show. Hanga is also a leading program on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and is engaged in teaching activities at the Higher National Television School.

Elena is sensitive to everything that has to do with her roots. In particular, she is an active participant in the World Jewish Congress.

Elena Hanga: biography, personal life

Igor Mintusov (a famous Russian political consultant) was familiar with the TV host since the 80s. In 2001, the couple decided to formalize their relationship. The wedding took place in Los Angeles, where many of Elena Khanga's close relatives still live today.

This marriage of like-minded people turned out to be happy, and the couple have been living together in the soul for more than 15 years.

At present, Igor Mintusov is in charge of the Department of Advertising, Design and Public Relations at the Plekhanov University.

Elena Khanga (biography): daughter

In 2001, the TV presenter gave birth to a girl named Elizaveta-Anna. The birth took place in the USA. By chance, on this day, Igor Mintusov was at the TEFI delivery ceremony, and his phone was disconnected. When Elizabeth-Anna was born, Elena Hanga tried to get through to her husband for a long time. Desperate, she contacted her former trainer and good friend Anna Dmitrieva. She called her brother Vladimir Molchanov. When the latter was summoned to the stage to receive the cherished statuette, which is annually awarded to the most distinguished Russian TV crew, he responded to congratulations to the audience about the fact that on this day their colleague Elena Khanga became a mother. Here in such an unexpected way, Igor Mintusov learned that he had a girl.

Now you know in which TV projects Elena Khanga took part. Biography, personal life, photos and information about her family are also known to you. It remains to be hoped that her fans will be able to see the TV host more often in new and interesting talk shows.