Nikolay Drozdov is a traveler, presenter, scientist-biologist

Who is still the unchanged leader of the program "In the world of animals", which has been broadcast on domestic television since 1968? Who made two round-the-world trips and took direct part in a hundred expeditions? Who wrote 20 books and over two hundred articles? Who works as one of the consultants of the UN Secretary-General on environmental issues? Well, dear readers, can you name this person? Of course, this is an intellectual and a scholar, a popular favorite Nikolai Drozdov.

The birth of a legend

June 20, 1937 in the family of Professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry Nikolai Sergeevich Drozdov and therapist Nadezhda Pavlovna Dreiling, a handsome boy was born.

Since childhood, he has absorbed the tender attention and trembling love of his parents to the environment, even kept a diary in which all records were made in Latin. With his father, little Kolya often collected a herbarium, learned to make georoscopes. It was thanks to his father, he learned to observe the natural, as it happens in nature, the behavior of various wild animals and birds.

Genealogical family tree

Numerous positive qualities Nikolai Drozdov inherited from his ancestors. This nobility and kindness, ardent heart and endless craving for all living, inquisitive mind and health.

Unique can be called the genealogical roots of the genus. On the part of his father, who knew several languages perfectly (Greek, Latin, English, German), studied botany, paleontology and astronomy, the path leads to the upper strata of the Russian clergy. Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow was his great-great-grandfather. Mom's ancestors were noblemen (the great-grandfather participated in the battle of Borodino, alongside with Kutuzov managed to get to Paris, an order-bearer).

"Biogeography is my calling"

The fact that Nikolai Nikolayevich knew the world from the very childhood and devoted a great amount of time to nature, and served as an impetus for his future, being the determining factor in choosing a profession. The whole family was sure that the Kolya profession must necessarily be connected with nature. After being a pupil of the general education school, he worked every summer on a vacation as a herder at a horse plant near Moscow.

After graduating from school, the future doctor of biological sciences becomes a student of the biological faculty of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov. Lomonosov Moscow State University. But two years later, having decided to prove that he knows how to earn money on his own, he left to work at a garment factory, where, in due course, he became a master of men's clothing. But in his heart he felt some discomfort, so he returned to school. Nicholas not only brilliantly graduated from the university, but also studied there in postgraduate study and defended his Ph.D. thesis in biogeography. Biological research he devoted his whole life.

By the way, Nikolai Drozdov lectures to students until today, even being at such a venerable age and being an associate professor of the department of biogeography.

"In the animal world"

It was 1968. He was known for the fact that Nikolay Drozdov took part in the popular television program as a speaker. "In the world of animals" - the so-called program, which collects hundreds of thousands of spectators from television screens. At first, he combined the posts of the co-host (paired with Alexander Zguridi) and a scientific consultant on animal films. Only nine years have passed, and Nikolai Nikolayevich became the author and presenter of the program.

For several decades this program has been aired, giving viewers the opportunity to enjoy the overseas countries, the diversity of flora and fauna of different continents. Nikolai Drozdov invited scientists and travelers to visit? Figures of nature protection. They were Tour Heyerdahl, Gerald Darrel, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, John Sparks. In 1995, the program was awarded the prize "TEFI" in the category of the best educational program.

Happiness is a family!

No wonder it is considered that if a person is successful and happy, it extends to everything he touches, no matter what he does, whatever he wants. All this confirms Nikolai Drozdov. The biography of this surprisingly kind and sensitive, intelligent and hardy man would not have been complete if he had not appeared in his life, Tatyana Petrovna Drozdova. She is a biology teacher at the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity. In an interview, Nikolai Nikolayevich told me that if there were no girls in his destiny - a wife and two daughters (Hope is a biologist and Elena is a veterinarian), it would be just an existence. He often recalls their casual acquaintance in the elevator with special tenderness. As it later turned out, they lived in the same house, only on different floors.

When a free moment is issued, Nikolai Drozdov, presenter One of the most beloved programs on Channel One, spends her with her living creatures. Among his favorites are scorpions, snakes, spiders. For many years he does not eat meat. He enjoys riding (he respects horses and tries to communicate with them as often as possible), bathes in the ice hole, does yoga, skiing. He likes playing the guitar and singing romances and bardic songs in different languages.