Oleg Kirillovich Gusev was a unique explorer of Lake Baikal and coastal areas. For almost half a century he worked as the chief editor of the hunting journal, was a candidate of biological sciences, a photographer and a journalist.
Gusev Oleg Kirillovich was an inquisitive researcher of the deepest lake Baikal, an attentive naturalist and photographer, a talented journalist and writer, a unique environmental scientist.
Biography
Oleg Kirillovich was born in Moscow in January 1930. When the Great Patriotic War began, he and his family left for the Urals to evacuate. Fascinated by the beauty and richness of these places, the future ecologist became interested in hunting.
He entered the Fur and Fur Institute in Moscow, and left there, having already received higher education, in 1953.
Gusev worked in a unique Barguzinsky reserve. He was one of the deputy directors of this reserve, then Oleg Kirillovich worked in one of the branches of the Academy of Sciences, headed the biological station.
Career
Oleg Kirillovich studied the ornithology of Baikal and Baikal, wrote a dissertation on the ecology of sable, was one of the initiators of the creation of the Baikal-Lensky reserve. An inquisitive scientist sailed across Lake Baikal many times, bypassed the entire coastal territory of this reservoir. After such creative and scientific travels, a lot of photos remained, which Oleg Kirillovich took.
In 1963, he began working at the Ministry of Agriculture as a senior engineer. And a year later he was appointed editor of a magazine covering television and radio events. Here he worked for 48 years.
