Matvey Ganapolsky

Ganapolsky was born in Lviv in 1953. His mother Dina Levina was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Babi Yar tragedy.^[4] Ganapolsky spent his childhood in Lviv, later leaving for Kyiv and then for Moscow where he graduated from the GITIS.^[5] From 1981 to 1986, he lived in Kyiv picking up a job at the local Variety Theatre.^[5] In 1990, he started working for the radio station Echo of Moscow where he launched the Bomond programme.^[6] In 2016, he obtained Ukrainian citizenship.^[1][7] As of 2020, Ganapolsky hosted a talk show named Ekho Ukrayiny on Pryamiy kanal^[1] and, until the radio station's closure in March 2022, several radio programmes on Echo of Moscow.^[2]