Vasiliy Peskov

Vasiliy Mikhailovich Peskov (born March 14, 1930), is a Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist. He has worked in the Russian tabloidnewspaper 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 o fUNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour.

Books

• Steps on Dew (1963)
• White Dreams (1965)
• End of the World (1967)
• The Roads of America (1973, with B. 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)
• Alaska is greater than you think (1995)
• Wanderings (1999)
• Proselki (2000)

Sources

• Russian literature of 20th century. N.N. Skatov (ed.) Vol. 3. Olma-Press, Moscow, 2005.