Project " amazing people” will provide an opportunity to show the participants their unique abilities, which are difficult for an ordinary person to believe in. "Amazing People" - Russian adaptation of the world famous show The Brain, which was successfully launched in Germany in 2011 and has been adapted in different countries, including China, USA, France, Italy, Spain.

show production « amazing people» was engaged in the company « white Media", which previously presented to the audience such projects as "Weighted people" on STS, "Big change" on NTV, "Love Conveyor" on "STS Love". This time, everyone who has any unique abilities was invited to participate in the show.

About Amazing People

Casting for the show amazing people launched in May 2016. The participants of the project were people with amazing
mathematical abilities, rare stereoscopic vision, as well as people who can recognize hundreds of shades of taste, are able to smell a person in a crowd, or know all dinosaurs by their skeletons. The channel received more than a thousand applications for participation in the project. Also, the creators of the show visited more than 40 cities in Russia, CIS countries and neighboring countries, conducting qualifying rounds of a unique show.

Casting editors watched about 500 hours of video with the performance of potential participants.

In August 2016, the final casting of the project took place in Moscow. The creators of "Amazing People" chose from over 500 participants - 48 people with the most unusual and amazing abilities.

8 contestants take part in each issue. Candidates for victory will have to pass a test that will allow him to demonstrate the uniqueness of his abilities. At the end of each episode, the auditorium selects by voting one of the eight participants who made the greatest impression. This participant gets the right to compete in the final for the main prize of the project.

Star guests will help the audience choose the best participant, who will comment on the performances of the participants. Star guests have the opportunity to intervene once in the course of the audience voting, and give one of the participants a chance to go to the final of the show.

The star guests of the show were the choreographer Yevgeny Papunaishvili, an athlete Natalia Rogozina and TV presenter Olga Shelest.

In addition, a professional assessment of the unique abilities of the participants will be given by the leading researcher of the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev. An expert can also influence the course of the program and provide one of the participants with the opportunity to reach the final.

And most importantly - "Amazing People" is not a contest of illusions, not a show of circus skills and paranormal abilities. The success of each performance has a scientific explanation.

Complete six qualifying rounds and ultimately defeat your opponents Edward helped absolute ear for music, intuition and conviction that you can live, overcoming the most incredible obstacles. Representation of the world around Nekhaev receives using the echolocation method and its unique hearing. Kuryan discovered his amazing ability to “see with his ears”, for which he received the nickname “dolphin man” on the Internet, in himself as a child.

Eduard Nekhaev has not yet decided where he will spend his cash prize in the amount of one million rubles, but he knows for sure that with a part of this amount he will fulfill his old dream - he will record his own album, the single for which is already ready. It is worth noting that Edward is a graduate of the Kursk Music Boarding College for the Blind in vocal class. In addition, he masterfully plays several instruments and writes songs himself.

Show Amazing people. Interesting Facts

The age of the youngest participant of the project is 3.5 years.

During room preparation Mikhail Melin about a dozen glasses were broken.

Olga, a participant from Yekaterinburg, flew to Moscow to participate in the project, despite the fact that she has been sitting in a wheelchair since the age of 18, she is terrified of flying and is five months pregnant.

Participant of the test on the skating track Nikita Klevchenya especially for the competition, he took from his father, multiple world champion Sergey Klevchen, skates that bring good luck.

For one of the tasks, the producers of the project found 48 pairs of twins who will be present at the shooting at the same time.

The fastest mental mathematicians of our country and the world take part in the "Amazing People" project.

One of the most famous participants in the show was a little polyglot girl. Bella Devyatkina. Bella's abilities amazed not only the presenter Alexander Gurevich and guests of the studio, but also Internet users. A video of a girl fluent in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Arabic with native speakers quickly became popular on Youtube

The show gives the participants the opportunity to show their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in! This is a project about the limitless possibilities of our brain, which are still little understood!
The project raises geniuses and clearly confirms that it is very important to develop your abilities. The winner of the first season, Eduard Nekhaev, thanks to his participation in the project, has got many students around the world. He teaches visually impaired people his method of orientation in space - echolocation.

Show Amazing people 2017 season 2 issue 8 (29 10 2017)

In the new season, amazing people will have to go through new complex and interesting tests. Seven contestants take part in each issue - a magnificent seven. At the end of the program, the auditorium selects by voting one winner who made the strongest impression. In the final, the winners of all previous editions will meet to compete for the main prize - one million rubles!
Star guests in the hall help the audience choose the best participant: choreographer and TV presenter Yevgeny Papunaishvili, TV presenter Olga Shelest and Russian athlete, Honored Master of Sports in boxing Natalya Ragozina. A professional assessment of the unique abilities of the contestants is given by the expert of the program, leading researcher of the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Ph.D. in Biology, Professor Vasily Klyucharev.


It's time to find out - who is the strongest participant in this season of a unique intellectual show? Who is the most amazing person? Who will receive the main prize of one million rubles? A mnemonist who can remember a person by drawing an iris, a polyglot who speaks 19 languages, unique chess players, a young mathematician or other heroes?

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The candidate of biological sciences told interesting details

29.11.2016, 06:39

The project "Amazing People" of the TV channel "Russia" (VGTRK) overtook its competitors in its ratings, and the participants of the show were able to amaze even the most demanding viewers. Eight contestants took part in each edition. Candidates for victory had to pass a test that would allow them to demonstrate the uniqueness of their abilities. The participants were given a professional assessment by the chief expert of the program, leading researcher at the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Ph.D. in Biology, professor at the Higher School of Economics Vasily Klyucharev. Journalists of the news agency Stolitsa met with Vasily Andreevich. They asked in detail about the truly fantastic abilities of the participants in the show and found out how all this can be explained from a scientific point of view. Well, and most importantly, how much what the audience sees differs from what it really is.

30 seconds per comment

- Vasily Andreevich, tell me: why did you, a serious scientist, a person far enough from any such shows, agreed to take part in the Amazing People project?

- Indeed, my experience with television was limited to various scientific interviews or popular science programs. But this project provides an opportunity to reach a mass audience and tell what modern psychology knows about the brain. The idea of ​​interpreting the participants' speeches in terms of how their brains work seemed interesting to me. After all, many unusual abilities of a particular person can be explained by the peculiarities of the work of his brain. Almost everything that happens in our project has a natural science explanation. On the other hand, I was also interested because it was such a personal challenge: to explain everything that happens on stage online. For me, of course, it is very unusual and curious. I was worried, thinking about what would come out of all this. And I'm still afraid to look at myself on the screen.

What was the hardest part about this show?

- To be honest, keep the line between scientific and popular when explaining this or that phenomenon. The organizers asked to speak briefly and clearly. But not all scientific terms can be known to a wide audience. And at the same time, you run into some internal framework, because not every phenomenon can be explained in simple terms. Sometimes Alexander Gurevich and I ( host of the program "Amazing People". — Approx. ed.) talked after recording the numbers, during the technical rearrangements. I told him more than I said during the recording. And in response I heard: “Why didn’t you tell this on the air? It's quite interesting!" But I was given a rigid short comment format. There was a good example. The man tried to reconstruct and identify people's faces from a computer image of the skull. In principle, this is possible. We had such a classic - the Soviet anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov, who at one time reconstructed the appearance of Ivan the Terrible. Of course, it is impossible to do this with 100 percent accuracy, but you can determine the basic things. Such reconstructions have many interesting examples and applications in real life! But since I had only 30 seconds to comment, it was not possible to tell in detail, in all details, but I would like to.

Unique abilities

— Were there people who possess abilities that cannot be explained from the point of view of modern science?

“So far we haven't come across anything that can't be scientifically explained in one way or another. True, there was one controversial number. I stood up and said it was impossible. My colleagues and I agreed that something was wrong there. The number was really provocative.

Memory can be trained and strongly developed by special exercises. This is especially recommended for older people, when after 50 it begins to deteriorate.

- What is this number?

— A man with a black tight bag on his head was driving a car.

So he didn't see anything at all?

- Yes. He had previously seen a map of the area. But in terms of the nuances - how he behaved, how carefully the car stopped in the right places - I do not believe that everything went there without some kind of trick. But it made a huge impression! One of the jury members rode next to him and did not notice any catch ...

Who else surprised you?

- There were people, of course, with phenomenal abilities. For example, Boris Golik. We agreed that we would meet with him and even examine him in our laboratory. He has a phenomenal working memory, and we are studying it in our research center. There are actually very few people who can play music backwards or pronounce words and phrases in familiar and unfamiliar languages. Because most of us have very limited working memory. We can remember a lot, but we can operate at a given second with a relatively small amount of information. And Boris simultaneously retains a large amount of information, can manipulate it: memorize texts and immediately turn them around. An ordinary person cannot do this. I looked for research on this topic. An interesting scientific article was published a few months ago: a father and daughter with such abilities were discovered in Serbia. And the authors claim that these are genetically unique properties.

Human capabilities

Who else impressed?

- A wonderful girl Bella Devyatkina, who at the age of four perfectly knows seven languages: Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. She also reads on them. In principle, anyone can master a fairly large number of languages, there are records up to 40, but not at such a young age. We have not yet contacted her on the topic of research, and it’s a pity to drag the baby to the laboratory. As I said, the vast majority of this or that ability can be explained scientifically. But when you read about similar properties of a person in a scientific book, this is one thing, and when a living person stands in front of you, capable of remembering seven thousand digits, you experience some shock. Yes, I know it's possible. But it looks fantastic: thousands of digits after the decimal point of pi are running on the screen - and a person can name any one of tens of thousands in this volume! At the first moment, I even got confused. And then he explained that it was really possible, that it was possible to achieve such results with certain trainings.

To the question: “Is it true that what is shown to us is happening there?” - I answer: everything is really honest.

- That is, everyone, using certain techniques, can repeat this?

Well, not every ability can be developed, of course. But if you do not have memory problems, then it is really possible. My favorite example: when one journalist Joshua Foer wrote a book about people with hyper-developed memory, he interviewed them, and they all claimed that they had the most ordinary ordinary memory. He thought they were hiding something from him. How is it so: people memorize 10,000 digits and at the same time claim that their memory is no different from ordinary. The journalist decided to take part in their competition, to see from the inside what methods they use. He began to train for 20 minutes a day - he claims - and eventually won this championship, setting a world record. So this is a clear example of the fact that everyone can develop their abilities.

What was the easiest ability for you to explain?

- The ability of a project participant who, knowing the date of your birth, easily calculates what day of the week you were born. Any day - whenever it was: in the last millennium, or two weeks ago - unmistakably calls. It made an indelible impression on everyone. But since I had researched this issue a little before, I understood that this was not very difficult to do. This seems impossible if you just imagine a fat calendar. But there is a certain system according to which it is necessary to do from six to eight mathematical operations with the date of birth. Even I would figure it out on a piece of paper pretty quickly, and if you practice well, you can do this incredible trick on stage. It shocked everyone in the audience, the audience was practically hysterical, and my modest remarks that it can be done, and it is not as difficult as it seems, did not make any impression.

Major discovery

- There is a common phrase that a talented person is talented in everything. How fair is she?

- Yes, there is such an opinion, but it seems to me that there is no clear evidence for this. Of course, there are also multilateral people. We know geniuses who wrote poetry, and drew, and composed music. And there are people who are talented in only one thing.

But is it worth developing some of your abilities, nevertheless?

Research shows it's not useless. For example, studies of bilinguals - people who speak two languages ​​equally - show that they are better able to control various processes in life and in themselves. This is due to the fact that they have to constantly switch from one language to another, and this requires internal control. They are considered to be more successful. But you need to understand that training affects exactly the function that you train.

- What would you advise everyone to train in the first place?

- Memory. The great discovery of psychology and neuroscience of the last decade is that it can be trained and greatly developed by special classes. After 50 years, memory deterioration begins, and such training can stop this process. And it is recommended for many older people.

- That is, it is not too late to learn, for example, English at the age of 50?

Yes, it's definitely not too late. And this idea - that only in childhood you can learn a foreign language - is not true. Can be taught at any age. It's just that there are periods when all this is easier. By the way, at one time in scientific circles, the discovery that it was possible to stop age-related changes by training, not very strenuous, caused a shock.

- Have you discovered any new abilities in yourself during your participation in the Amazing People project?

- Colleagues who sat next to me discovered such abilities in themselves. Someone, for example, found that he very easily remembers faces, names - no worse than some participants. And I made a very good discovery for myself: that everything is fair in this project. In fact, often people who come across me ask me: “Is it true that what they show us is happening there?” There is always some doubt. But I authoritatively declare: everything is really honest. And some of the participants were really wrong, and I was very sorry, because I understood that they were very talented people, but something just went wrong - maybe they didn’t have enough luck ...

original name:

"Amazing People-2"

Player quality: high HD
Transfer production: VGTRK "Russia" and WeiT Media
Producer: Yulia Sumacheva, CEO of White Media
Presenter: Alexander Gurevich
Project jury: expert Vasily Klyucharev, choreographer Yevgeny Papunaishvili, athlete Natalya Ragozina, actress and journalist Olga Shelest
How many episodes in the program "Amazing People": September 3, 2017 started season 2
Genre: transmissions, talent shows,
The final "Amazing People" of the unique talent search show 2 season 9 edition: November 5, 2017 on Russia-1 channel
Released: 2016 - 2017
Members: phenomenal, amazing and extraordinary personalities from around the world who will demonstrate their unique memory and intuition ...

Information about the show: - who are these amazing people? The heroes of the new unique project on the TV channel "Russia-1" will amaze your imagination. These people are capable of a lot: their unique talent is beyond our understanding and ordinary human capabilities. The incredible abilities of the people who took part in this show make the audience understand that there is no limit to the human mind.
Someone has the ability to look at the highway to calculate the speed of all moving cars. Someone can do mental arithmetic at the speed of a computer. Someone memorizes the contents of hundreds of books in one viewing, collects a Rubik's cube with his eyes closed, breaks glasses with his voice, recognizes the outlines of any states on our planet...
People will demonstrate their phenomenal gift, miracles of intuition and memory in the new show "Amazing People". Thousands of people with unique abilities received an invitation to take part in this show. In 2017, the project reached a new level after its resounding success in Russia in 2016. Now not only people from Russia and the CIS countries, but also foreign guests of any age and with different abilities can take part...

48 finalists are waiting for open uncompromising and difficult competitions, because this show is not just another demonstration of their skills - this is the battle of the X-men! This is an amazing competition among unique people, but only one will rise to the winner's podium!
The invited spectators in the studio will vote for the best of the best, and famous guests will help them make their choice, with their comments and reviews: Natalya Ragozina - the absolute world champion among boxing professionals; Yevgeny Papunaishvili - a wonderful choreographer, a famous dancer, and a participant in the "Dancing with the Stars" project; Olga Shelest - journalist, actress, popular TV presenter. In the new second season, the contestants will have to overcome new challenges that will be harder and more interesting. Seven contestants will take part in each new release, they can be called the magnificent seven. At the end of each episode, viewers vote to whom to give the victory. Star guests have the right to intervene once in the course of the audience voting and give one of the participants a chance to go to the final of the show.
Professor Vasily Klyucharev, an expert from the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, also has his influence on the choice of the project finalists. The winners of all previous editions go to the final, where they will have to fight among themselves for the main prize of 1 million rubles and worldwide recognition!

Talent Show "Amazing People" Season 2 Episode 7 aired October 22, 2017

Talent Show "Amazing People" Season 2 Episode 8 aired October 29, 2017

Young Manizha Toshboltaeva from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, took part in the international project of the Russian TV channel "Russia 1" "Amazing People" and impressed the jury members with her unique abilities.

The girl can almost accurately name the speed of a car passing by thanks to mental arithmetic, and when asked by a jury member of TV presenter Olga Shelest about whether she has a formula, she admitted that she does, but it still needs to be quickly applied.

“Yes, I have a certain formula. But we still need to quickly fold,” said Manizha Toshbotaeva.

To test her abilities, the authors of the show organized races of three cars at a special circuit in Moscow, and they invited another member of the jury, dancer Yevgeny Papunaishvili, to check the testimony of the girl and the radar. The first car drove at a speed of 69-70 km / h, and Manizha, in turn, called 66 km / h. The second time the deviation was 3 km/h (the participant named 76 km/h, while the actual speed was 79-81 km/h). The third car drove at a speed of 145 km / h, and Toshboltaeva announced 149 km / h.

The presenter and members of the jury admitted that they were amazed by the girl's ability, and nevertheless asked to reveal her secret.

“I count the time, well, with the help of my hand, that is, so that the seconds are accurate, then I divide the distance by the time. And to translate into kilometers per hour, I multiply by 36 and divide by 10, ”she said.

The young Dushanbe was also featured in the plot of the Morning of Russia program on Thursday, October 19, as part of the announcement of the next issue of Amazing People.

“I need some kind of rhythm, this is how I count the time. You know, I don’t really count seconds “one-two”. For me, they somehow emerge by themselves, or something, ”the participant shared.

Manizha admits that she did not always love mathematics. She was even her least favorite subject, and at the end of the quarter she always got threes or fours, because of which she was very worried and even cried. Everything changed when her mother opened a mental arithmetic training center - it was there that she began to understand and love mathematics.

The second season of the show "Amazing People" started on the TV channel "Russia 1" on September 3. Any person can take part in the project, regardless of age and country of residence/citizenship. Seven contestants participate in each episode, and at the end of the program, the audience votes for the contestant who made the greatest impression.

In the final edition, the winners of all previous broadcasts will be collected, who will compete for the main prize - one million rubles.

Their performances are evaluated by a jury, which includes TV presenter Olga Shelest, dancer Yevgeny Papunaishvili, sportswoman-boxer Natalya Rogozina and professor Vasily Klyucharev. The professional assessment of the contestants is given by the expert of the program, leading researcher of the Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Research, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev.

The program is hosted by the famous TV presenter Alexander Gurevich.