Former chief producer of NTV-Plus sports channels Dmitry Chukovsky told that the funeral of Soviet tennis player and sports commentator Anna Dmitrieva will take place at the Novodevichy cemetery on June 27.
On Monday, June 24, it became known that Dmitrieva died at the age of 83. She ended her career in the early 1970s and began working as a journalist, including for more than 15 years editing sports programs for USSR state television and radio.
“The funeral of Anna Vladimirovna will take place on June 27 at the Novodevichy cemetery,” Chukovsky told .
In 1997, Dmitrieva received the Russian national Golden Microphone award as the best sports commentator on Russian television. From 2004 to 2010, she headed the management of the NTV-Plus sports channels, then worked on the channel.
In 2004, Dmitrieva was inducted into the Russian Tennis Hall of Fame.
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