Gennady Katsov

Gennady Katsov (; born February 13, 1956 in Evpatoria, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet Russian-American poet, writer and journalist from Ukraine.

Early life He was born and raised in Evpatoria, Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. During his second year of studies, he became interested in the fine arts and visited both Moscow and Leningrad.

In Leningrad, Katsov was close to Alexander Kahn (; born 1954 Kherson), a 1970s graduate of the faculty of foreign languages at Tula State University who spoke English fluently and founded the Leningrad Jazz Club Kvadrat . In 1984 during peristroika, Kahn, who had been a writer for both Billboard and Coda, gave many visitors tours of Leningrad where Katsov became immersed in the music scene.

On May 12, 1989, Gennady Katsov moved to New York after living in Austria and Italy.

He was the publisher and the editor-in-chief of a weekly Russian language newspaper The Printed Organ in New York (1994-1998), the editor-in-chief of the Guide to New York (issued quarterly, 1997–1998), the weekly magazine Telenedelya (2000-2004), as well as the weekly Russian-language magazine МЕТРО (pronounced "metro") (February 2004 – 2007), a weekly New York Russian-language magazine covering greater New York City cultural events.

He had a prominent role in the weekly TV segment New York: history and geography in Dmitry Poletaev's program of Good Evening, America! (Nationwide television EABC, New York, 1997–1999), a weekly hour radio "Morning Solyanka" on Russian-American radio RTN / WMNB (1998-2000), served as editor-in- chief for RTN / WMNB radio (2000-2003).

Since 2000 Gennady Katsov authors and anchors the daily political and economic 30-minute TV program entitled Not a Day Without a Line - an overview of the American press on Russian-American television RTN / WMNB. Starting in 2003 Gennady is the author and a host of the daily TV program A Morning Run, as well and the Sunday program Press Club aired on the same channel. which includes the Encyclopedia of Russian America. Gennady periodically takes part in the BBC's program the Fifth Floor. After that seven more books of Gennady Katsov have been published: "Between the Ceiling and the Floor" (New York) in 2013, "365 Days around the Sun" (New York) in 2014, "Youth Exercises (1983-1985)" in 2014, "25 years with the right to correspondence" (Moscow) in 2014, "Three “Cs” and Vers librarium" (New York) in 2015, "New York primer" (Moscow) in 2018, "On the Western Front" (Moscow) in 2021. All - poetry collections in Russian.

In 2014, ForumDaily nominated him for the Person of the Year by Russian-speaking America in the category “For Outstanding Achievements in the Media” as the outstanding representative of radio, television and the press, working in both Russian-language and English-language media.