the top of Mount Elbrus. In 1980, he participated in a 4-month expedition on the research ship of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union on the islands of Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, within the framework of the national project "Ecosystem" of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, on the topic "Protection and rational use of island ecosystems." In 1993 and 1995, he participated in the expeditions of the Russian icebreaker Yamal (to the North Pole and on the Northern Sea Route) and on the ship "Discoverer" (along the coast of Alaska and Canada). Since 1996, he was a member of the High Advisory Council on Sustainable Development under the United Nations Secretary-General. In 2002, as part of the International Expedition, made a landing on the North Pole and spent a week in the ice camp Barneo. In the same year, a member of the expert council of the national award "Crystal Compass". In 2000, in Petrozavodsk city, he defended his PhD thesis in Biological Sciences (having no dissertation text, based on several works) on the topic “Fauna, animal population and protection of biological diversity in arid regions of the Earth”. In 2014, he was elected to the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation of the 5th legislature (by 2017). He is a member of Public Council of the International Public Movement "We love Russia". Social position In 2010, he supported a protest against deforestation of protected forest in the Khimki Forest. In 2012, he supported organizations and individuals promoting nature conservation. He maintained close contacts with the (Patrciarch of Moscow) the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2014, he advocated for the animals defense and for preservation of their habitat. For many years, he fruitfully cooperates with the national and international environmental organizations. Approved the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Broadcasting jobs In 1977—2019 - the host of the TV program "In the world of animals". In 1996, he was elected the member of the Academy of Russian Television. In the same year, the program “In the animal world” was awarded the “TEFI” award as the “Best Educational Program”. Author and co-author of many documentaries and videos about nature and animals: the series “By the pages of the Red Book”, “Rare animals”, “Standards of the biosphere” (ordered by UNESCO) and the others. In the early and mid-2000s, he translated and voiced BBC documentaries