Olga Danylenko

Olga Prokhorivna Danylenko was one of the first three television presenters in the history of Ukraine, sharing the title with Novela Serpionova and Olena Nikolaeva, and a foundational figure in the development of Ukrainian television broadcasting. She effectively inaugurated televised programming in the country during the early years of state television, beginning around the mid-1950s. Because of her heavy Ukrainian accent, she was later joined by Olena Nikolaeva, a trained actress who had perfect Russian diction. Together, the pair created the standards of Ukrainian television news in the early days of television, and trained a generation of journalists that lived through the dissolution of the USSR.

The Soviet historian Volodymyr Sappak once wrote of Danylenko:

"The beautiful Ukrainian woman seemed to have stepped out of a holiday poster, Olga Danylenko. She was considered a screen standard, an object of love and admiration to all Ukrainians."