Yevgeny Kiselyov

Kiselyov is the son of an aviation engineer. A student in Persian at Moscow State University, he later worked as an interpreter in Iran and Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. He began his broadcast career with the Persian service of Radio Moscow in 1984, moving to television three years later. He became famous in 1991 when he refused to report official Soviet news as the USSR was losing control of the Baltic states.

His father, Alexey Alexandrovich Kiselyov, is a metal engineer, winner of the Stalin Prize of the II degree.

He is married for the second time to his classmate, Marina Gelievna Shakhova (pseudonym Masha Shakhova, born in 1956), graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. She hosted the program "Dachniki", the producer of the program Fazenda, for the program on the TV channel Dachniki Shakhova received the TEFI-2002 award, as a designer she exhibited in the Small Manege.

Son Alexey Kiselyov (born 1983), was married twice. Since 2018, he has been married for the third time to actress Maria Fomina. Engaged in business, film producer, currently the creative director of the Nebo Film Company.

Granddaughter Anna Kiselyova (born 2018) is from her son's third marriage to Maria Fomina.

Grandson Georgy Kiselyov (b. 2001) — from his son's first marriage to Maya Tarkhan-Mouravi.

Father—in-law - Geliy Alekseevich Shakhov. He was one of the heads of the USSR State Television and Radio Station, a journalist, was a correspondent in Kenya, former editor-in-chief of Foreign Broadcasting in the USA and Great Britain, shortly before his death translated Kerensky's memoirs, which were published in the early 1990s, met with Alexander Kerensky in the USA in the early 1960s.

Mother—in-law - Erna Yakovlevna Shakhova- She worked as a translator for the publishing house "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura" and the NTV television company, was the lead editor of the editorial office of foreign literature of the publishing house "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura" and received the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation in 1996.

Viktor Shenderovich — about Kiselyov's work in the Moscow News:: In the end, you won't be lost - you can find some other place to puff up your cheeks. You're a "brand"... and one last thing. Do you know what the main problem of Russian democracy is? Not in Putin, and not in the Chekists in general, and not in the nomenclature… The main problem is that ambiguous people like you are beginning to be associated with democracy and its values in the public consciousness.

Maxim Sokolov on Kiselyov's position on Ukrainian television:

The example of Russian citizen E.A. Kiselyov, who calls on Kiev TV viewers to kidnap other Russian citizens in the form of hostage trafficking, shows that in the 21st century, an acute conflict of loyalties may well arise, after which there is room for only one loyalty. Which I have to prove with all my zeal. When choosing a new permanent residence, it is wise to keep in mind the incident of E.A. Kiselyov, so that the 21st century does not overtake the future emigrant all of a sudden.

Assessing the role of E. Kiselyov in covering the 1999-2000 election campaign in Russia, Candidates of Philology and Associate professors of the Department of Periodicals at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University L. O. Resnyanskaya and E. A. Voinova, and philologist O. I. Khvostunova noted: To warm up the mood and stimulate the activity of voters, two technologies that are still reliable in Russia were used — compromising and myth-making, or exorcism and the creation of God. The role of the shock forces in pumping information to citizens was assigned to the so-called analytical, author's programs of national channels. "Gladiators" S. Dorenko and N. Svanidze (ORT and RTR) against another "gladiator" E. Kiselyov (NTV) played "bad" and "good" guys in a script not written by them, covering up the fight and bargaining in the virtual space for dominance in the political economic sphere of the property-deprived elites and "letting off steam" of discontent with the authorities.