{{Short description|Soviet-Russian TV presenter, director, producer and musician (born 1967)}} {{Infobox person | name = {{nobold|'''Valdis Pelšs''' (lv)}} <br> {{nobold|'''Valdis Pelsh''' (ru)}} | image = Валдис Пельш в ЦДМ на Лубянке.jpg | caption = Pelšs at Central Children's Store on Lubyanka in 2016 | birth_name = Valdis Pelšs | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1967|6|5}} | birth_place = Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union | occupation = television director, presenter | years_active = 1983–present | awards = TEFI 1997 ("game show presenter")<br/>Zolotoi Grammofon 1996, 1997 (in ''Neschastny Sluchai'' band) | alma_mater = Moscow State University | television = Name That Tune | website = {{URL|valdis-pelsh.com}} }} '''Valdis Eyzhenovich''' ('''Yevgenyevich''') '''Pelsh'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|Валдис Эйженович (Евгеньевич) Пельш}}, {{langx|lv|Valdis Pelšs}}}} (Russian; Валдис Евгеньевич Пельш; born 5 June 1967) is a Soviet and Russian television presenter, television director, television producer and musician, winner of two TEFI awards (in 1997 and 2005). Valdis Pelšs currently works as a screen actor and manages child programs subdivision on Channel One. He hosted several popular game shows, such as ''Ugadai Melodiu'', ''Russian Roulette'' and ''Rozygrysh''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rg.ru/2003/10/25/ugadaj.html|script-title=ru:Это не "Розыгрыш" - Валдис Пельш вернулся в "Угадайку"|last=Treneva| first=Elizaveta|date=2003-10-25| newspaper=Rossiyskaya Gazeta |language=ru |access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://alt.kp.ru/daily/24238/437802/| script-title=ru:Барнаулец выводит из депрессии розыгрышами |last=Alexeev |first=Vadim| date=2009-02-04|newspaper=Komsomolskaya Pravda |language=ru |access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref> Pelšs is a former vocalist and percussion instrument player for ''Neschastny Sluchai'', a band founded by him and Alexei Kortnev in 1983.<ref name="moscowout">{{cite web|url= http://www.moscowout.ru/news/neschsl2009|title=Neschastny Sluchai |publisher=MoscowOut.Ru |language=ru |access-date=2009-02-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/news/2009/01/1401.html|script-title=ru:Концерт группы "Несчастный случай"|publisher=Muzycalnaia Gazeta|language=ru|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref>
== Career == Valdis Pelšs graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Philosophy. He first appeared on television as a contestant on the KVN show as part of the MSU team with his friend Alexei Kortnev (1987). Together they also participated in ''Oba-na''. A few years earlier, in 1983, they had formed an alternative rock band called ''Neschastny Sluchai'' (the band's name meaning "unfortunate event" in Russian), which Pelšs would leave in 1997.<ref name="moscowout"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ns.ru/team/pelsh/|title=Valdis Pelsh|publisher=Neschastny Sluchai official website|language=ru|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref>
In 1995 Vladislav Listyev invited him to work on the musical game show ''Ugadai Melodiu'', a Russian version of ''Name That Tune'' aired on Channel One. The show quickly gained popularity: it achieved a viewer share of 96%, for which Valdis Pelšs was inducted in ''The Guinness Book of Records'' as the most popular Russian television personality.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.guinessrecords.ru/info/telezvezdy/samyi_populiarnyi_personazh_televideniia_rossii.htm| publisher=Guinness World Records |language=ru |access-date=2009-02-26 |title= The most popular Russian television personality}}</ref> After the death of Sergei Suponev in 2001 Pelšs manages child programs subdivision on Channel One. For his work as a TV host he received TEFI awards in 1997 and 2005.
== Shows hosted == * ''Ugadai Melodiu'' * ''Ugadai i kompania'' (''Ugadaika'') * ''Russian Roulette'' * ''Vlastelin Vkusa'' * ''Eti Zabavnye Zhyvotnye'' * ''Rozygrysh'' * ''Odni doma'' * ''The Field of Wonders'' (''Pole Chudes'') (Each the episode aired as a special series twice, on 27 December 2002 and 30 December 2002)
==Filmography== * 1998: ''Na boykom meste'' * 2000: ''Brother 2'' (as himself) * 2005: ''The Turkish Gambit'' * 2007: ''Zolushka.ru'' (as himself) * 2007: ''Lubov morkov'' * 2008: ''Snezhniy chelovek'' * 2018: ''Arctic Brotherhood. Documentary about Soviet and British air forces cooperation (This is a documentary about Soviet and British air forces cooperation in Murmansk mid-air during September–November of 1941) ''
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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0671295|Valdis Pelšs}} * {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.ns.ru/ ''Neschastny Sluchai'' official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410171516/http://www.ns.ru/ |date=2013-04-10 }} * {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.1tv.ru/person/id=6021&pa=%CF Valdis Pelsh] at the Channel One.
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