Seva Novgorodsev

MBE^[1] Seva Levenstein-Novgorodsev (born Vsevolod Borisovich Levenshtein on 9 July 1940), better known as Seva Novgorodsev (Russian: Се́ва Новгоро́дцев), is a former radio presenter on the BBC Russian Service. He is famous throughout the former Soviet Union, being widely considered as Russia's first radio DJ.

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Seva Novgorodsev
Seva Novgorodsev in the BBC World Service studios in 2006
Born	Vsevolod Borisovich Levenstein (1940-07-09) 9 July 1940 (age 84) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Radio presenter
Website	seva.ru

He created the music programme «Рок-посевы» ("Rock sowing" or "Rock crops", in Russian containing a pun with the name Seva) and the chat shows «Севаоборот» (Sevaoborot, a pun with the Russian word sevooborot, "crop rotation") and «БибиСева» (BBSeva). He has also written the books «Рок-Посевы» (Rock the Seva way) and «Секс, наркотики, рок-н-ролл» (Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll).

He was Russia's first radio DJ, and has been featured in several Russian films. In 1981 he married actress Karen Craig, with whom he co-wrote a Russian cookbook for Sainsbury's in 1990,^[2] but they later divorced. He is now married to Olga, who is a designer.

On 4 September 2015, at the age of 75, Seva retired from broadcasting.^[3]

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