Participant's name: Ruslan Eduardovich Vikhlyantsev

Age (birthday): 20.05.1989

City: St. Petersburg

Height and weight: 1.82 m

Channel direction: acutely social videos, humorous videos

Channel created: March 29, 2010

Number of subscribers: over 1.1 million subscribers

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Well-known online blogger Ruslan Usechev ( real name Vikhlyantsev) is a rather interesting character who has been appearing on the Internet for more than 5 years. But first things first.

The young man was born in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, graduated from school there and went to St. Petersburg, where in one of the highest educational institutions received a degree in Media Design.

The first and still successful brainchild of the young man was the resource “Thank you, Eva!”, created in 2008 together with Yuri Degtyarev - a large Russian community of video makers with elements of a closed thematic social network, at the same time it is an extensive platform for video authors.

In 2010, Ruslan launches a personal channel on YouTube. The success of the first video inspired the young man to do more fruitful work.

Within its framework, he reviewed new and long-released films and joked about their blunders and plot holes.

The competition in this topic is quite strong and over time, Uchasev left reviews on the topic of films.

Then came the show Android control", in which the blogger examined various applications and games for modern gadgets under a magnifying glass. This project lasted for about a year.

The next show was " Usachev Today“- this was a kind of news summary for the week with comments from the blogger. Ruslan still hasn’t given up the idea of ​​such videos.

Partly the young man’s scandalous and strange project was the show “ Insulting the feelings of believers" This playlist on the blogger’s channel can be called the most scandalous - the topics he touches on are quite controversial, but this is his personal opinion.

The blogger himself notes that the message of the videos is a discussion of the problems of relationships of modern Russian society and religion. Although over time they began to fall under the law on insulting the feelings of believers and the young man faced liability in the form of fines.

Currently, Usachev has taken up stand-up and this direction greatly inspires him. He willingly travels around Russia with his performances.

Also popular is the show It's time to get out", which Ruslan is filming together with Mikhail Krishtovsky. They travel around the world and talk about cities and countries.

Separately, I would like to highlight Usachev’s project called “ #twitota”, which was published on the website “Thank you, Eva” at the beginning of his career. As part of it, the blogger reviewed celebrity Twitter accounts.

One of the most memorable videos was the one in which the young man selected the password for Dmitry Medvedev’s page. This fact did not go unnoticed and it was even decided to strengthen security measures (complicate the password) in relation to the politician’s account.

Very little is known about the blogger’s personal life.. In 2015, there were persistent rumors about his relationship with another YouTube star (they recorded a joint video and appeared together at various events), but there was no official confirmation of this.

Note that on the personal pages of the young man Count “ Family status" absent. We can safely hope that he is not married.

Ruslan actively takes part in video blogger festivals and helps organize them. Often appears in videos of other guys: with, with Ilya Prusikin, etc.

Photo by Ruslan

The blogger runs Instagram, where he posts photos from Everyday life, footage from photo shoots and events.

Ruslan Usachev is a famous video blogger who has won the love of a huge number of Runet inhabitants with his sense of humor, ironic approach to life and love of talking about serious things in an understandable language.

Birth and childhood

Ruslan Usachev (real name Vikhlyantsev) was born on May 20, 1989 in St. Petersburg. He spent the first years of his life in St. Petersburg, but he had the opportunity to spend his school period in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Having received secondary education, young Ruslan set off to conquer his native St. Petersburg. There the guy managed to enter the university, where he studied media design. Studying at a university in a creative specialty was not in vain - it was in student years Ruslan began his activities on YouTube, which soon brought him enormous popularity.

Usachev posted his first video on April 1, 2010. The video received good reviews and gained a lot of views, which prompted Ruslan to continue blogging. But the young man gained real popularity thanks to the creation of the “Thank you, Eva!” community.

Personal life

Not much is known about Ruslan’s personal life. In 2015, the Internet gossiped about Usachev’s affair with the equally famous Katya Klap. They had several joint jobs, in addition, young people periodically attended various events together.

However, no official facts, confirming their relationship, never appeared. On this moment Ruslan is lonely, which inspires one hundred of his fans.

The only “love of his life” is considered famous actress Emma Watson, for whom Usachev showed warm feelings more than once in his videos.

Activities and Youtube

Ruslan's creative activity is much more intense and interesting. His first show was “Harmful Cinema”. The essence of the project was criticism of modern Russian cinema with detailed reviews plots, bloopers and acting.

Ruslan spoke quite ironically about the attempts of Russian “film makers” to make money from outright nonsense, for which he even received threats of legal proceedings from the production company “Sreda”.

Ruslan's criticism was not limited to the sphere of cinema. In your project #twitota, which aired on the channel “Thank you, Eva!”, Usachev paid attention to famous pages in in social networks and on Twitter. In one video, the guy even tried to guess the password to Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter account.

However, his attempts were unsuccessful. Despite the failure, the release was noticed. After it, there was even a notification that the protection of Dmitry Anatolyevich’s account would be improved.

Several more stories from Ruslan’s life are connected with Medvedev. For example, in 2011, at a press conference, Usachev asked Dmitry Anatolyevich about his attitude to blogging, the Internet and other topics that concern him. And not so long ago he boasted on social networks that Medvedev personally subscribed to his Twitter.

Another Ruslan show was the project Android control. The essence of the videos corresponds to the name - in them Usachev talked about all kinds of applications for gadgets on the Android platform.

The pilot episode discussed the sensational toy Angry Birds. The project did not last long, about 20 videos were released, after which Ruslan abandoned the show.

Interesting notes:

In 2013, Usachev began raising funds to launch a project about “Insulting the feelings of believers”. The show received enormous publicity and response in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of users. Only 4 episodes of the project were filmed, after which Ruslan called it completed.

Project Usachev Today, which exists to this day, is one of the most popular shows on the blogger’s channel. In the videos he discusses latest events through the prism modern society, expresses his own opinion, shares his experience and ironic remarks.

The second ongoing project is the show “It’s time to get out!”, which Ruslan hosts together with his friend, popular video blogger Mikhail Kshishtovsky. The essence of the program is to visit different countries and cities of Russia. The episodes are distinguished not only by their educational content, but also by their excellent humor, unexpected plot twists and excellent video sequences.

In addition to his activity on YouTube, Ruslan tries himself as a stand-up comedian. His stand-up program “Without Mat” gained enormous popularity, with which he, together with Danila Poperechny, visited 17 cities in Russia and neighboring countries.

Ruslan was involved in the creation and organization of the first official festival of bloggers in Russia - Vidfest.

Currently, the channel of the blogger UsachevShow has more than a million subscribers, who support Ruslan’s activities and look forward to new episodes of his show. In addition to the main channel, there is a second “unofficial” channel, to which more than 250 thousand users have already subscribed.

Ruslan is a frequent guest of the ClickKlak channel and communicates well with its participants.

Ruslan Usachev is a popular video blogger who was at the origins of this spectacular genre in Russia. His projects “Harmful Cinema”, “Twitotta”, “Microreviews”, “It’s Time to Get Out” and others went down in history as the first works that seriously declared themselves and gained great popularity. He also became famous for his dialogue with the then-president of the Russian Federation as part of a meeting between the head of state and young Internet figures.

Childhood and youth

Ruslan Usachev (real name Vikhlyantsev) was born on May 20, 1989 in St. Petersburg. The boy's parents - Eduard Vikhlyantsev and Larisa Ivanova - studied at the University information technologies, mechanics and opticians, lived in a dormitory. Ruslan was still a baby when his father left the family. The couple never managed to get their passport stamped.

In the 2nd year, the boy’s mother transferred to St. Petersburg Mining University, where she met Yuri Melnikov, who became her first official husband. After graduating, the family moved to Norilsk.

Ruslan was lucky with his stepfather; Melnikov raised the boy as his own son, gave him a good basic education, sending him to study at a gymnasium. But the young man did not want to stay in Norilsk and left to enroll in his native Petersburg. In 2007 he became a student at the University of Culture and Arts, Faculty of Media Design. And in parallel with his studies, the guy began to be interested in video production.

Blogosphere

Even in his 3rd year, the young man began to feel burdened by his studies: his grades were high, but there was no satisfaction from his design practice. Having started to look for himself in other areas, he discovered the world of YouTube. In 2007, video hosting was just launched in Russia.

“For several nights I watched videos from different Western authors without interruption. So the idea came up to do something similar myself. It has always been a pleasure for me to entertain and make people laugh, and the Internet has given me the opportunity to have direct contact with a huge audience,” Ruslan describes the moment of his start.

When creating video content, I had to move blindly. Then, at the dawn of the genre, no one knew how, for whom and in what way it was necessary to work both creatively and technically. Some things were learned from Western video bloggers, some from the first Russian pioneers, for example (Davydov).

Ruslan, taking the pseudonym Usachev, posted the first video of the “Harmful Cinema” project on the Internet on April 1, 2010 and dedicated it to April Fool’s Day: the video contained humorous reviews of some films. The blogger had a plan: if within 10 issues his work did not attract the attention of the viewer, it means that he was carried away by the wrong thing.

Video by Ruslan Usachev from the series “Harmful Cinema”

But success appeared much earlier. Already the 3rd issue has collected a thousand views. At that time this was an impressive figure. Then, according to Ruslan, he realized that video blogging has a future in Russia, and he plunged into further development with pleasure.

Soon Usachev joined Yuri Degtyarev’s team, becoming one of the creators and participants in the “Thank you, Eva” project, a Russian community of video bloggers with a platform website. Here Usachev created the “Twitotta” project, in which he reviewed the Twitter accounts of famous people, including politicians.

The following items creative biography video blogger - participation in the first Russian web series “Police Everyday Life” and the program “Let’s Play” on the Kontr TV channel, where he became a co-host of Ilya Madison. Usachev’s success was noted at the level of public recognition: in 2012, Ruslan was among the 50 famous people Petersburg (according to Sobaka.ru magazine), and also became the winner in the “Startup of the Year” nomination.

In the fall of 2013, the blogger’s name became involved in a scandal after the release of the program “Insulting the Feelings of Believers,” timed to coincide with the publication of the relevant law. The show, in which the author criticizes the document and gives examples of cases of anti-religious behavior by clergy, caused a lot of controversy and conflict. Usachev even faced administrative punishment.

Having avoided sharp corners, the video blogger, together with his friend Mikhail Krzysztofsky, took up the task of new project- the show “It’s time to get out!”, dedicated to travel.

“Over the last couple of years, I realized how much I love traveling. And the show “It’s time to get out!” just gives you the opportunity to visit different countries, encourages their study. I would like to travel the whole world, I don’t know if it will work,” said Usachev.

The popularity of the project broke records, and in 2017 its authors were invited to the “Evening Urgant” show.

Personal life

The handsome, tall (182 cm tall) video blogger has many fans, and each of them would be happy to become his girlfriend. But Ruslan’s personal life is veiled. In 2015, information about Usachev’s affair with a colleague was circulated on the Internet. The young people were indeed involved in joint projects, attended events, etc. But they did not give official confirmation of the romance.

The guy’s parents also moved from Norilsk to St. Petersburg, but then divorced. However, Ruslan continues to communicate warmly with his stepfather Yuri Melnikov. He has no contact with his biological father, Eduard Vikhlyantsev.

Ruslan Usachev now

Now Ruslan is busy with his own project “Usachev Show”. The video channel already has over 1 million subscribers who eagerly await each new release. Usachev also organizes video festivals. The first, Vidfest, was organized in 2015.

Blogger leads "Instagram", where he posts photos from his travels, work moments, vacations with friends and much more.

"If you believe Google statistics, my audience is 70% men (from 18 to 24 years old) and 30% women (girls from 16 to 24 years old). There is no recipe for blog popularity. There are banal tips: regularity and relevance. Yes, there must be an idea. Luck is also important,” he shares his experience.

Projects

• 2010 – “Harmful Cinema”
• 2011 – “Twitotta”
• 2012 – “Usachev Today”
• 2013 – “Insulting the feelings of believers”
• 2014 – “It’s time to get out!”
• 2016 – “Without swearing”
• 2017 – “Usachev Show”