Ruslan Gorovyi

Ruslan Gorovyi is a Ukrainian journalist, author of the “Children’s Search Service” TV-show (since 2001), Merited Journalist of Ukraine, documentary director, writer (11 editions since 2002).

Now he lives in Kyiv. He has two children from his first wife. His second daughter, Daryna, was born on 12 September 2017 to his current wife.

Since 2017 Molodyi Theatre in Kyiv has a play Gagarin and Barcelona based on Gorovyi's prose (and few other modern Ukrainian writings). Based on the stories of Ruslan Gorovyi, director Julia Tamtura has made a short feature film The Moment, which won a prize at the Molodist Film Festival in Kyiv.

In 2006 he graduated with honours from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts for cinema and television specializing in directing films and television.

After returning from abroad Ruslan started working in journalism, for KST (Konotop) TV production company. Then Ruslan worked for the Eastern Project (Kramatorsk) newspaper, and the Alternative media group (Kyiv). Since 1998 he worked at Magnoliya-TV and became Executive Director of the ChP.INFO (ЧП.інфо) channel. In 2001 Ruslan Gorovyi began developing his project “Children’s Search Service”, with the goal of helping to find missing kids: making the videos and printed materials about them, informing the public, collecting and processing information (“Children’s Search Service” reception and telephone hotline), helping lost children to return home.

Ruslan Gorovyi was born on 1 March 1976 in the town of Konotop of Sumy region. The oldest child, he has a brother and a sister. Konotop – the land of legends is a book he devoted to his hometown (publishing house “TaTySho”, 2018).