Igor Stanislavovich Prokopenko - famous documentary filmmaker, television journalist, deputy general director for documentary and journalistic projects of the REN TV television company, TV presenter, six-time winner of the TEFI Prize. He served in the air defense forces. Since 1989, he worked as a military columnist for the newspapers Krasnaya Zvezda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, etc. Published reports from "hot spots."