Died commentator Serhiy Derepa: his colleague Sergei Saveliy recalled more than 40 years of friendship

. The first practiced on Kiev regional radio and the second worked at the regional radio station at the time. The two editors were in the same building, Khreshchatyk Street, 26.

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. , when he was working on the Kiev regional radio, passed to a sports editor. I remember that at one of his meetings he said: "Regional radio is fed up with these morning milking trips to signal that it is necessary to go to sports writing. " So he was in sports journalism ", – said Sergey Saveliy.

According to him, after meeting with each other, they often met and talked about sports and other subjects. The radio reporters also played in a football team and, when they started working on television, they broadcast no broadcast on football . They had more than 40 years of genuine friendship.

Serhiy Saveliy and Sergey Derepa worked together and at the Olympics: in 2002 in Salt Lake City (United States) and in 2004 in Athens (Greece). In fact, in Salt Lake, there was an interesting event and, in fact, a symbolic event.

" This is the only time our hockey team has entered the Olympic tournament and Seryozha has commented on hockey, Kolya Ryabov was the director here in Kiev … Seryozha thought the game was going to be the same. sound engineer had already brought the jury that he had not heard, and at the end of the report he stated: " Kolya Ryabov – champion " And it turns out that literally, exactly three years later, Sergei Derepa has unfortunately gone, so to speak, to Kolya Ryab The champion's owl (director Nikolai Ryabov dies on January 26, 2016 – Channel 24) [19459011commentedthecommentator

The last conversation between Sergei Saveli and Sergei Derapov was partly about Nikolai Ryabov.

"The last conversation took place about a week ago, I then called for the writing and we discussed the end of the biathlon stadium, which seems hard to remember." But of course, something was moving during a conversation and we laughed. "Then I laughed that on January 26 will be the anniversary of the death of Koli Ryabova and invites him to meet.Seryozha said that it is difficult the 39, winter and you can go up to the grave in the summer, but it turned out that we will never go together "- says Savelius.

According to his report, Sergey Derapi had long had a vascular problem because it was difficult for him to walk with his feet. The summer was for him a kind of paradise and calm. So he spent a lot of time in a country house in Yarolsavka, in the Chernihiv region. And since July 2015, when he retired, he did not like meetings very much.

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In general, it is difficult to say anything when a person with whom you have lived and worked so much, a person who is your contemporary, comes from life. It's a pity It's not even embarrassing, but it's painful that it's so early, he died at age 64,
– added Sergey Saveliy.