Matvey Ganapolsky

Matvey Ganapolsky studied at Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts and Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. The recorded working language is Russian and Ukrainian. Employment is recorded with Echo of Moscow, Moscow State Estrade Theatre and USSR State Committee for Television and Radio. Distinctions recorded are TEFI and Golden ram.

• Name — Matvey Ganapolsky • Birth Name — Matvey Yuryevich Margolis • Born — 14 December 1953 • Birthplace — Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Citizenship — Ukraine • Russia • Spouse — Tamara Shengeliya (m. 1998) • Occupation — Journalist, film director, author • Children — Ekaterina Shengeliya, Alexander Ganapolsky

Ganapolsky was born in Lviv in 1953. His mother Dina Levina was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Babi Yar tragedy. Ganapolsky spent his childhood in Lviv, later leaving for Kyiv and then for Moscow where he graduated from the GITIS. From 1981 to 1986, he lived in Kyiv picking up a job at the local Variety Theatre. In 1990, he started working for the radio station Echo of Moscow where he launched the Bomond programme. In 2016, he obtained Ukrainian citizenship. As of 2020, Ganapolsky hosted a talk show named Ekho Ukrayiny on Pryamiy kanal and, until the radio station's closure in March 2022, several radio programmes on Echo of Moscow.