About Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov
Lived 1930 – 2013 (aged 83). Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov was a Russian journalist, photojournalist, presenter, prose writer, television journalist and traveler.
Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov (; 14 March 1930 – 12 August 2013 ) was a Soviet and Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveler and ecologist. He worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990, he conducted the TV programme In the World of Animals on Soviet TV.
In 1964, he was awarded a Lenin Prize. In 1990, he was among the winners of UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour. In 2013, the Voronezh Nature Reserve, one of the oldest reserves in Russia, was officially renamed in his honor.
Books Steps on Dew (1963) White Dreams (1965) End of the World (1967) The Roads of America (1973, with Boris Strelnikov) War and People (1979) Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family's Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness (1990) about the Lykov family Alaska is Greater than You Think (1995) Wanderings (1999) Proselki (2000)
Awards Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Order of the Badge of Honour Lenin Prize Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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Russian journalist (1930-2013)
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Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov was born on 14 March 1930 in Novousmansky District.
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Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov died on 12 August 2013 in Moscow.
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Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov was a journalist, photojournalist, presenter, prose writer, television journalist and traveler.
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Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov was Russian.
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