programs for children in Russia

[Josh Wilson]

Rebecca, 

There is a domestic channel in Russia called "Bibigon" (which actually
doesn't have its own channel right now, but buys time from other channels
owned by the same company - the same company that controls Rossiya, Kultura,
Vesti, etc.). 

You can find its website here: http://www.bibigon.ru and you can watch a lot
of its stuff online. It's got some good, original programming (which I'll
admit I even watch sometimes) like "Kulinaraya akadamiya" which has a guy
that bakes food with a bunch of little kids helping him and they intersperse
segments throughout that talk about the history of the food and its
ingredients and why food is cooked the way it is... 

Bibigon also has a sort of "Mr. Wizard's World" as well - except it's a
highly scripted version with two adults pretending to be kids assisting a
eccentric-scientist type that runs some actually fairly sophisticated
experiments... don't recall the name of that one though. 

You might also be pleased to know that "Spokoinoi nochi, malyshi" is still
on the air (though its theme song has been shortened and its content heavily
commercialized). Another Soviet staple "V Mire zhivotnykh" was also brought
back a couple years back by Telekanal Domashnyi. 

Best, 



Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
www.SRAS.org   
jwilson at sras.org



-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rebecca Pyatkevich
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:37 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] programs for children in Russia

Dorogiie kollegi,

A student asked me yesterday whether in Russia there are educational- 
entertainment programs for children, something akin to Blues' Clues or  
Conjunction Junction here.

Since it's been a few years since I've been in Russia, sadly, all I  
could come up with was "Ulitsa Sesam", and the old Soviet program  
"Spokoinoi nochi, malyshi".  But I promised her I would find out, so I  
am asking the list if anybody can give me (and thus her) a different  
answer.

Many thanks for your help!

--
Rebecca Pyatkevich
Lecturer
Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
824 Curtin Hall
Milwaukee, WI
pyatkevi at uwm.edu







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