Kaleria Kislova, the former chief director of the Vremya program, has died.

Soviet and Russian television director Kaleria Kislova, who headed the Vremya program for more than 20 years, died at the age of 100. Channel One reported this on May 10.

"Today, the legend of Russian television has passed away, thanks to which we saw footage of the most epochal events of the 20th century. The director of the Vremya program, Kaleria Venediktovna Kislova, lived for 99 years. We love and remember," Channel One correspondent Kristina Levieva wrote on her Telegram channel.

Kislova was born on April 20, 1926 in the village of Kargat, Siberian Region. She studied at the Krasny Fakel Theater Studio in Novosibirsk, then at GITIS. She joined television in 1961, starting as an assistant director. In the same year, she moved to Moscow and joined the Youth Editorial Staff of Central Television. Since 1974, she worked in the Main Editorial Office of Information, and in 1977 she became its chief director.

Kislova directed the filming of the 1980 Olympics and the first USSR—USA teleconference. Since the mid-1970s, she has been the personal director of the USSR Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev, who called her "our Miss Television." In 2006, she moved to the position of a consulting director. She was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1985) and a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1977).