"Dialogues about animals", who does not remember this program? She walked from the mid 90s to 2017. And had the highest popularity among scientific programs.
Her host is a very interesting person. In the article we will talk in detail about Ivan Zatevakhin. How he came to television and how it all began.
Childhood
The future TV presenter was born in 1959. To be more precise, this event occurred in September, the 7th. Most recently, the beloved many television presenters turned 59 years old.
Ivan Zatevakhin is a native Muscovite. Named after a grandfather on the father's side, lieutenant general, once the commander of the USSR Airborne Forces.
The boy’s father was the famous doctor of medical sciences Igor Ivanovich Zatevakhin. He was a laureate of the Bakulev Prize, head of the department of surgery, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS). In general, a person is quite famous not only in medical circles, but also among the general population.
The mother of Ivan Zatevakhin “epaulets” are smaller, but they have a place to be. Marina Vadimovna, that was the name of the boy’s mother, an anesthetist by profession. He is an employee of the Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery.
The future TV presenter, as we see, came from a family of doctors. In childhood, he was interested in medicine, but quickly lost interest in it. He studied well and, when the time came, he entered Moscow State University.
Studying at Moscow State University, working at the Institute of Oceanology
Ivan Zatevakhin is a graduate of Moscow State University. Namely, the Faculty of Geography. He graduated in 1981. And the department at which the young man studied is called "biogeography." After graduation, the young man takes a job at the Institute of Oceanology. He worked there for 16 years. He left the Institute in 1997.
During his studies at the university he managed to visit the Crimea. He was very interested in studying the behavior of dolphins and wanted to find out how it changes with a change in habitat. The leader of the young man was the legendary Nikolai Drozdov.
Note that over the years of work at the Institute of Oceanology, Ivan Zatevakhin managed to work in the waters of five oceans. He visited many seas, being on scientific expeditions and flights.
Dog trainer
Why did the host of Live Stories with Ivan Zatevakhin leave his field of activity? Just living on the salary of a research assistant has become unrealistic. So he went to the dog handlers. Yes, yes, the future TV presenter trained dogs. And this he laid the foundation for the development of standards and training competitions. By the way, Ivan also organized the first championship of Russia among bodyguard dogs.
Note that the host has published a book on dog training, in which he reveals to the reader his own experience in relations with dogs, as well as the ability to see four-legged friends of a person. The book is called "Notes trainer. Dogs and us." It was published in 2016.
Leading career
Children of the 90s should remember how they gathered at the TV, barely hearing a sweet voice announcing the beginning of the program "Dialogues about animals with Ivan Zatevakhin." And it was so interesting to watch: they’ll show a raccoon tame, then some other animal, unusual for that time,.
And it all started with the ability of the presenter to tell stories. He had many such stories, accumulated over the years of scientific expeditions. And then one day his friend, TV presenter Alexander Gurevich, gave Ivan an idea. Why not release a series of animal programs? They will be short, only 15 minutes, but very entertaining.
Ivan accepted the offer, and the work began to boil. First, these 15-minute programs were shown on the channel "Business Russia". Subsequently, they grew to full-fledged television programs, which Ivan Zatevakhin called "Dialogues about animals." Soon, Fishing Dialogues joined these dialogs. And both programs smoothly moved to the channel "Hunting and Fishing".
In 2002, a series of programs called Underwater Expeditions was filmed. Their main goal was to show the relationship between all types of living organisms that inhabit various marine areas.
But the popular leader did not calm down on this. After Underwater Expeditions, work began on filming about the life of birds.
The remaining achievements of the leader
In 1999, the Animal Dialogs program received the TEFI Award. The host is the head of the Pets channel. And he leads his program on it, dedicated to the four-legged favorites.
Not only on television appears Zatevakhin. He is also a radio host. The program about animals goes to Radio of Russia.
The experience of relations between Ivan Zatevakhin and dogs, accumulated over the years of working as a dog handler, resulted in the book "Notes of the trainer. Dogs and we", which was published in 2016.
And since January 2017, Ivan has been transmitting under the title Living Stories. You can watch it on the channel "Russia 1". Some materials about animals are taken from the Internet. In particular, the presenter admits that he finds the most interesting videos on a well-known hosting, and he publishes the others to the public, taking them from a personal blog.
Personal life
The presenter owes his acquaintance to the future wife to his cynological past. It was on the training ground that he met the charming Elena. A girl came there to teach her dog how to protect. And met her fate.
At first there were classes, then they met outside of training. Started to communicate. And, as usual, they fell in love. And then, like everyone else: married, two children were born. Almost nothing is known about the daughter of the host. But the son went to his father - a legend for modern youth. Hip-hop artist who does not differ in exemplary disposition and ideal musical texts. Igor Ivanovi Zatevakhin, better known under the pseudonym Dog, prefers to generously “water” his texts with profanity. How this famous father relates, history is silent.
The charming Staffordshire Terrier, a dog named Gore, lives in the family of the Zatevakhin spouses.
Interesting Facts
Now much is known about the life of the TV presenter Ivan Zatevakhin. But there is something else that I would like to tell the reader:
- The host has a black judo belt.
- It is recognized that the dog bit him only once in his life.
- Being a dog trainer, it does not have a dog training at the same time.
Readers now know how the famous TV presenter Zatevakhin became famous, and how his work on television began.