"Fourteen minutes before launch" The ensemble performed together with the cosmonauts at the TEFI Award ceremony

“Television Effort” – this is how the abbreviation “TEFI” is revealed – the name of the annual Russian national television award given for the highest achievements in the field of television arts.

The first TEFI Award ceremony took place exactly 30 years ago, in May 1995.

In 2025, the competition was held in 52 nominations in 3 categories: Information and Public Affairs Broadcasting, Entertainment Broadcasting, and Series.

The awarding of the best TV presenters of the year took place in Moscow, at the new stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, on 9 and 10 June 2025.

In the category "Sports Show / Program" of the "Entertainment Broadcasting" category, the program "Biathlon with Dmitry Guberniev" on the Match TV channel won the award.

At the ceremony of the prestigious award, the Academic Order of Merit in Culture and the Arts Ensemble of the Song and Dance of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation, led by the artistic director and chief conductor, People's Artist of Russia, Major General, Hero of Labor of Russia Viktor Eliseev, performed the song by Oscar Feltsman with lyrics by Vladimir Voynovich, "Fourteen Minutes Before the Start".

Written in 1960, this song (also known as "I Believe, Friends..." and "Space Maps Are Stored in Tablets") immediately became the unofficial anthem of Soviet cosmonauts. The first performer of the song was Vladimir Troshin, a People's Artist of the RSFSR. In 1962, the song was performed for the first time in space by the commanders of the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 spacecraft, Andrian Nikolaev and Pavel Popovich. Subsequently, "14 minutes" was performed by many popular singers, including Georg Ots, Iosif Kobzon, Yuri Vizbor. In 2017, at a meeting with students of Moscow State University, the song was performed by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

The performance of the unofficial anthem of Russian cosmonauts as part of the TEFI-2025 award ceremony was unusual – together with the choir of the Rosgvardia Song and Dance Ensemble, the Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut pilot Oleg Artemyev, test cosmonaut, lieutenant colonel Oleg Blinov and TEFI award winner, Russian TV presenter, journalist, sports commentator of the Match TV channel Dmitry Guberniev came on stage.

The performers received a well-deserved round of applause from the guests.