November 8, 2016 marks 55 years since the very first KVN program went on the air. "Club of cheerful and resourceful" knew good and bad times. For censorship reasons, it was closed in 1972, and was revived only in 1986. But even without the air, KVN existed on student and amateur stages, lived, developed, changed with time and country. There is not a single similar television centenarian in the world. So who are they, the inventors of this "perpetual motion machine" Muratov, Yakovlev and Axelrod?