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Herman CherniyAcademician of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences, professor
Date of Birth: 01.01.1941
Country:  Russia |
Content:
- Birth and Family Background
- Education and Early Career
- Career as a Mass Event Director
- - The International Children's Festival "Salute, Victory!" (1975)
- Later Career and Recognition
- Professional Achievements
- - Christmas Balls in the Kremlin
- Scholarly Contributions
- - "Celebration of the French Revolution" (1989)
- Personal Interests
- Herman Cherny lives and works in Moscow.
Birth and Family Background
Herman Petrovich Cherny was born on August 14, 1941, in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, Russia. His parents were Pyotr Ivanovich Cherny (born 1907) and Valentina Emanuilovna Cherny (nee Chebotaeva, born 1905). He married Alla Fyodorovna Cherny (nee Smelyak) in 1939, and they have a son named Sergei (born 1967). His grandchildren are Alexander (born 1990) and Andrey (born 1995).
Education and Early Career
In 1964, Cherny graduated from the directing department of the Theatre Faculty of the University of Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). In 1965, he received a degree in Russian, literature, and English from the Philological Faculty of the Ussuriysk State Pedagogical Institute.
Cherny began his career in 1961 as a director of the youth theatre, where he staged 15 plays in eight years. After graduating from the institute, he worked as a teacher, Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin (1969-1985), and Head of the Main Directorate of the International Children's Centre "Artek" (1985-1987). From 1987 to 1991, he was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Youth.
Career as a Mass Event Director
Herman Cherny is recognized as one of the most authoritative directors of mass events, celebrations, and spectacular forms of art. As a director, screenwriter, and organizer, he has staged over 200 national, international, and regional celebrations, festivals, and gala concerts.
Cherny was the author and director of several major international festivals and holidays for children, teenagers, and youth, including:
- The first International Children's Festival "Let There Always Be Sunshine!" (1977)
- The International Children's Festival "Salute, Victory!" (1975)
He directed the concert at the Bolshoi Theatre for the participants of the World Conference "For a Peaceful and Happy Future for All Children", dedicated to the International Year of the Child (1979). He also organized a festive evening concert at the Third All-Union Congress of Teachers in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (1978) and the children's program at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana (1978).
Later Career and Recognition
In 1990, Cherny became the head of the Creative Association "Yuventa", dedicated to organizing humanitarian, cultural, and sporting programs for children and youth. Since 1991, he has been Chairman of the Board of the Fund for the Development of Creativity of Socially Unprotected Children (the "Children of Russia" Fund).
Cherny has directed numerous mass events in Moscow that have become significant events in the capital's cultural life. Among them are the International Children's Festival "Alice-91", Christmas Balls in the Kremlin for disabled and orphaned children, the Moscow festival "Children Must Laugh", and gala performances in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses dedicated to the International Day for the Protection of Children.
Professional Achievements
Cherny's talent and skills as a director of mass events were evident in works such as:
- Christmas Balls in the Kremlin
- Anniversary of the city of Gubkin, Belgorod Oblast- 40th anniversary of Severstal (Cherepovets)
- "Easter Annunciation"
- "Parade of Folk Stars of Russia"
- Gala performances in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Denmark
He was renowned for his ability to organize grand-scale mass events, such as the highly technical spectacle "Artek Lights the Fires", commemorating the 70th anniversary of the International Children's Centre "Artek" (1995).
Scholarly Contributions
Herman Cherny, Doctor of Education and Professor, is the author of over 120 scientific works, as well as 11 textbooks and monographs for students of cultural and pedagogical institutions. Some of his notable publications include:
- "Development of the Modern Adolescent (Methodological and Theoretical Aspects)" (1990)
- "Socio-Cultural, Psycho-Pedagogical Foundations of the Mass Festival" (1991)
- "Celebration of the French Revolution" (1989)
- "Pedagogical Technology of Mass Celebration" (1990)International Recognition
In 1994, Cherny was elected a full member of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences. In 1995, he became a full member of the International Academy of Acmeology and Political Psychology.
Personal Interests
Cherny's main passion is literature. His favorite works include the poetry of Garcia Lorca, Sasha Cherny, Boris Pasternak, and Osip Mandelstam, the novels of Ernest Hemingway, the prose of Edgar Allan Poe, the works of Irving Stone (especially the novel about Michelangelo, "The Agony and the Ecstasy"), the "Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales".
Cherny also studies professional literature, particularly the works of philosophers and psychologists such as F. Losev, N. Berdyaev, I. Ilyin, J. Gibson, E. Fromm, C. Jung, and Z. Freud. The work of M. Bakhtin on the theme of festivals, particularly "Rabelais and His World", served as a significant inspiration for his research on Russian folk festivals and several of his monographs and theoretical articles.
Cherny has a particular fondness for Russian folk romances, the works of A. Schnittke, and the music of Elvis Presley. He admires the vocalists Nani Bregvadze, Boris Shtokolov, and Anatoly Solovyanenko, and the dramatic actors I. Smoktunovsky and E. Lebedev. His favorite sports include water skiing, tennis, and volleyball. He also enjoys hunting and billiards.
