Mikhail Belenkiy is a screenwriter who began his career in high school and pursued theater, later transitioning to film production due to financial instability. He gained recognition through various TV series such as 'Carmelita' and 'The Boarding School for Noble Maidens', ultimately becoming the head of a screenwriters' group. His work has consistently met deadlines and garnered popularity, showcasing his expertise in screenwriting and production.

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Mikhail BelenkIy discovered his own bent at high school when he got one of the main roles in a pioneer TV Russian series about children's school life 'Prostye istiny' ('Simple truth'). It was a great success on TV.
School years
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1999

3. After having finished school Mikhail entered M.S. Schepkin Theatre Institute, Actor's faculty from which he graduated in 2005. While being a student Mikhail tried to continue his acting career but didn't manage to repeat his success in school years.
M.S. Schepkin Higher Theatre Institute
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Mikhail's decision to change his specialization was caused by actor's job financial instability. In 2006 he got interested in film production.
In the beginning Mikhail started as a coordinator on the set but later went to another university because for good promotion it was necessary to apply for
Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov (VGIK)
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2006
So the young actor graduated from Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov (VGIK) with the diploma 'TV series producer'.
special educational courses.

5. First career steps
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Although Mikhail didn't start to work as a producer that professional knowledge came useful to move his career forward.
While he was studying Mikhail had a go at scripwriting. His first work was screenwriting some episodes of TV school series 'Svoya Komanda' (Your team).

6. First career steps
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TV series ‘Svoya comanda’ — 'Your Team'
Format: 147 episodes.
Genre: sport comedy for teenagers.
The series 'Your Team' is a set of stories about how completely non sportish, with-no-intention-to win guys become one team and how team spirit helps each of them to strengthen their character and grow into a true personality. It tells you about shared and personal success which the characters were able to achieve after long series of trainings and games. During basketball competitions they had to solve their own problems, help each other, prove their strength, concentrate their moral and physical power and maintain their dignity.

7. In 2009 Mikhail first entered the scenarists' group of a long series which was decisive of his fate.
The scenarists were writing scripts for 288 episodes about gipsies, 'Carmelita' love story.
As it soon turned out Mikhail was seen as a higher skilled professional among others who
First success as a screenwriter
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mastered all the details of film production due to his work on the
set and second education. He applied all his knowledge and
experience to writing such scripts which also allowed the group to cut budgeting costs.

8. TV series ‘Carmelita. Zyganskaya strast’ — 'Carmelita. Gipsy Passion'
Format: 288 episodes, 44 minutes each.
Genre: criminal costume romance.
How attractive it seems to enter the unknown land of gipsies. It's really amazing to get to know how these mysterious people live. Viewers of the main Russian channel 'Russia' could see several
First success as a screenwriter
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seasons of the series and got much involved into Carmelita's and her family life. The history of the beautiful gipsy hasn't finished yet, to be continued.

9. He got noticed and was invited to participate in the next project. It seemed more challenging because that was a 256 episode historical series about Russia in the XIX century. 'Institut blagorodnych devits' ('The Boarding School for Noble Maidens') was released autumn 2010 and was highly rated.
Start of career growth
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10. TV series ‘Institut blagorodnuch devits’ — ‘The Boarding School for Noble Maidens’
Format: 260 episodes, 44 minutes each.
Genre: historical romance. Russia, the end of XIX century.
The Smolny boarding school for noble maidens was founded in Saint- Petersburg in 1764 by special decree of Catherine the Great. Empress had a
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wish to educate 'intelligent women, good mothers, good family and society members' for the Russian state. It was a high privileged institution for daughters of impoverished nobles and
The main idea and condition of accepting students to the boarding school was the fact that it was completely closed from the rest of the world. To bring up a new type of persons asked for isolation and separation from the family, personal environment, the outside. For 12 year education they became innocent and chaste women.
heroically perished generals. Then there were opened other departments for different strata of society (except predial serfs).

11. After that project Mikhail was promoted to the head of the scripwriters' group which included 5 screenwriters and 3 editors. It
Promotion to the higher position
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was a 230-episode drama about surrogacy named 'Krovinushka' ('Near and Dear') and it was the first time when Mikhail was in charge of everything the screenwriters made and what became the actual part
of a film making process. He was also responsible for screenwriters' and editor's pay.
2011

12. TV series ‘Crovinushka’ — 'Dear and Near'
Format: 230 episodes, 44 minutes each.
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Genre: modern romance.
The series brings up problems of surrogacy and not simple relations between biological
parents and that 'real' mum who agreed to give birth to their baby and then wanted the baby to be hers. It's a story about several generations of one family, a shared part, dignity and mission. The story about love leading to an abyss and about love which is able to come over all the fears and stereotypes.
Promotion to the higher position
2011

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channel ordered a sequel which had a more intriguing name 'Tainy Instituta blagorodnuch devits' ('Misteries of Boarding School for Noble Maidens') - 259 episodes.
Introduction of changes into the film production line
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2012
After big success of the Boarding School for Noble Maidens in the beginning of 2012 the TV
This time Mikhail changed a typical workplan of the screenwriters' group. He started the project with the American co-writer who helped him to begin the story and think through the plot turns till the very end of it. They wrote 30 episodes together and then Mikhail began to lead the project by himself navigating his group of scenarists who prepared dialogues for the storyline.
This storymaking technology let the group meet the severe deadline without quality loss: there were new 6 episodes every week, not 5 as it used to be earlier.

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TV series ‘Tainy Instituta blagorodnuch devits’ — ‘Misteries of Boarding School for Noble Maidens’
Format: 259 episodes, 44 minutes each.
Genre: historical romance. Russia, the end of XIX century.
The boarding school for nobel maidens was a unique Russian phenomenon and had no other 'copies' all over the world. Smolny school of young ladies (and its branches) existed for 150 years till 1917. Outstanding idea of Catherine the Great met all expectations.
Graduates of the Smolnuy boarding school were wifes of prominent persons such as Dukeness Yelena Dolgorukaya, patriots who became nurses during the First World War, teachers and writers Vodovosova, Charskaya, Rzhevskaya, Aenghelgard. There were the women who were able to go through all hard times of the civil war and revolution after old world order collapse and didn't give in, maintained Russian culture and human values whether they were in emigration or in Soviet Russia.

15. Summer 2013 the new long project started — its working title is 'Lubov i razluka' (in English 'Love and Separation'). The number of episodes and the main theme cannot be revealed before putting it on the air.
Recent and current projects
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In 2013 Mikhail wrote 4 dialogues for the short thrilling historical series 'Petlya vremeni' ('Time Loop').
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16. TV series ‘Petlya vremeni’ — 'Time Loop‘
Format: 4 episodes 44 minutes each
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Genre: pseudo historical thrilling detective story mixed with science fiction.
Time and place of action: Moscow, 2013, 1880.
Intrigue: inexplicable power brought heroes — Russian policemen — to the end of XIX century where they could apply all their skills to not only find the reason why they were taken on a time travel tour but to investigate some famous crimes of that epoque.
Recent and current projects
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Mikhail's biography is not marked by renowned and famous names as well as their great number, however, each of the projects took 1.5 year to give his mind wholly to the job.
The facts speak for themselves. Under Mikhail's management all the projects met the deadline, the budget didn't go over limit and what's of primary importance TV series gained much popularity among the viewers taking stable high rank positions.
Speaking of screenwriting long series it may safely be said that Mikhail's experience would be useful for everybody who would decide to do that no picnic job.
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