Nikolai Fomenko

Born in Leningrad on April 30, 1962.

Father - Vladimir Ivanovich Fomenko, physicist-metrologist, who worked for many years at VNIIM. Vladimir Fomenko was one of the developers of homing missiles.[1]

Mother - Galina Nikolaevna Fomenko (nee Fedorova), after her grandmother from the nobility of the Skrypitsins,[2] a ballerina, G. S. Ulanova identified her at the Vaganovsk Choreographic School. Due to a meniscus injury, she was forced to change her profession and became a civil engineer.

He studied at school No. 222, which at that time was re-qualified as the School of the Olympic Reserve. Simultaneously with his studies at school, he studied at the Theater of Youth Creativity (TYuT),[3] played in the symphony orchestra of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers on the first violin.

In 1983 he graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (LGITMiK). While studying at the institute, he organized the Secret group, a member of the Komsomol. After graduating from the institute, he worked for distribution at the Alexandrinsky Theater.[4]

Since January 1993, he began to live and work in Moscow.[5]

Fomenko started his career as vocalist and guitarist in the band Secret, who were very popular in Russia in the mid-1980s.

Fomenko first started his acting career as a theater actor in the Theater of Youth Creativity (1974-1976).

Fomenko performed in the popular Russian music collection series Staryye Pesni o Glavnom (Old songs about the important).

He hosted two seasons of a TV show The Interception and a season of the game-show The Weakest Link on Russia's Channel 5.

In 2009, he began hosting Top Gear Russia, the REN-TV spin-off of the BBC series Top Gear.

In 1994, Fomenko was invited by Vladislav Listyev to participate in a car racing show as a celebrity guest. Later he started to train as a professional racer and took his first victory in 1996.

FIA GT

Year	Team	Car	№	Class	Co-drivers	Points	Pos.
2000	Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3-R	58	N-GT	Alexey Vasilyev	0	—
2001	Freisinger Racing	Porsche 996 GT3-R	59	N-GT	Alexey Vasilyev Richard Kaye	0	—
2002	RWS Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3-R	77	N-GT	Alexey Vasilyev Antonio García Jesus Diez Villaroel	1	26
2003	RWS Yukos Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3-R	77	N-GT	Alexey Vasilyev Adam Jones Stephane Daoudi	17	14
2004	Freisinger Yukos Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	77	N-GT	Alexey Vasilyev	26	7
	Cirtek Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	73		Adam Jones John Grant Vic Rice
2005	Russian Age Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	17; 18	GT1	Alexey Vasilyev Christophe Bouchut Jamie Campbell-Walter Nicolas Minassian	5	19

Endurance races

Year	Race	Team	Car	Class	Co-drivers	Pos.
2003	24 Hours of Daytona	RWS Motorsport	Porsche 996	GTS	Alexey Vasilyev, Patrick Bourdais Walter Lechner Jr., Tetsuya Tanaka	28 (9)
2004	24 Hours of Le Mans	Freisinger Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	LMGT	Alexey Vasilyev, Patrick Bourdais	DNF
2005	24 Hours of Le Mans	Cirtek Motorsport/ Russian Age Racing/ Convers Team	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	LMGT1	Alexey Vasilyev, Christophe Bouchut	17 (5)

Fomenko is involved in the development and launching of the Marussia sports car.[6]

He was married to Andrei Mironov's stepdaughter, actress Maria Golubkina, and has three children: daughters Anastasia and Ekaterina, and a son, Ivan.

• Official site
• Nikolai Fomenko at IMDb
• Nikolai Fomenko at http://www.fiagt.com