"Yellow, Black and White"

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Yellow, Black and White Group is a Russian company engaged in the production of television programs, TV series and movies. The main partner of the company from 2008 to 2017 and from 2021 is the CTC channel, and in 2018-2020 - the Super channel, but the studio also produced content for Channel One, Russia-1, NTV and other TV channels.

The most famous TV projects of the company are the sitcoms “Daddy’s Daughter”, “Kitchen”, “Hotel Eleon” and “Ivanovy-Ivanovy”, the sketch show “Give Youth!” and “6 frames”, the humorous show “Ural dumplings”. Among the most successful films of the studio are “Kitchen in Paris”, “Kitchen”. The Last Battle", "The Last Bogatyr", "Kholop", "Hotel Belgrade", "The Last Bogatyr: The Root of Evil", "The Last Bogatyr: The Messenger of Darkness" and "Cheburashka".

Since 2017, the studio is among the leading film companies, whose projects are funded by the Cinema Foundation as a priority. The total box office of YBW films is more than 10 billion rubles. In 2023, Yellow, Black and White received a special award “For the annual achievement of film records” from the Association of film and television producers.

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The name of the production company comes from the name of their first program - "YBW Show" (released on Kazakh television). YBW stands for Yellow, Black and White (Yellow, Black and White). These three colors symbolize three races: in the YBW Show, the leading were Kalmyk with Kazakh roots Sangaji Tarbayev (yellow, Mongoloid race), African Andrew Mvai (black, Negroid race) and Russian Stanislav Yarushin (white, Caucasian race).

History

Natives of the RUDN KVN team Sangadzhi Tarbayev and Eduard Iloyan in 2007 launched an entertainment television project “YBW Show” on the Kazakh channel of CPC produced by a specially created company Yellow, Black and White. In 2008, the Russian TV channel STS became interested in the format of the program (so the Color of the Nation appeared, later the League of Nations).
In 2009, Yellow, Black and White launched molodejj.tv. In addition to television series, the site presents exclusive materials, not included in the air of TV channels, music videos and much more. Since 2011, despite the fact that the bulk of TV programs on the site were still products of the YBW Group, molodejj.tv also posted TV programs of the Red Square group of companies, which at that time bought 50% of the video resource. The other half was owned by YBW Group. In 2012, molodejj.tv came under the sponsorship of the Sales House of Gazprom-Media Digital. At the end of October 2014, Red Square left Molodejj.tv.
In 2011, Vitaly Shlyappo and Alexey Trotsyuk joined the production company, who became general producers of the projects. In 2013, General Producer Sangaji Tarbayev left the company.
In 2014, after success with feature-length films, a subsidiary, Films Forever, was formed. The company made films separately from its parent company