Pavel Lobkov is a Russian journalist, TV presenter, documentary filmmaker, author of the television films Mausoleum, USSR: The Last Days, as well as the series Pavel Lobkov's Science Detectives. At one time he collaborated with NTV, TNT, Channel Five. Today he is the leading columnist for the Dozhd TV channel. In 2015, he admitted to being HIV positive.

Childhood and youth

Pavel Lobkov was born in the suburbs of Leningrad, Sestroretsk. After graduating from a local high school in 1983, he entered the prestigious Leningrad State University, Faculty of Biology, where he majored in botany.

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After 5 years of diligent study and graduation with honors, the young man got into graduate school, developed a scientific project, and even did an internship at a research center at the Dutch National University. He also worked at the Leningrad Botanical Institute. Nevertheless, Pavel Albertovich did not defend his dissertation, since by that time he had become interested in journalism and decided to try himself in this capacity.

A television

Pavel Lobkov began his career as a journalist as a correspondent. At first, he collected information for the Unified Television Information Service of the Petersburg State Television and Radio Company, including appearing on the screen in the popular Fifth Wheel program. After 3 years, he switched to the independent NTV channel and became the director of the St. Petersburg branch, but Lobkov not only managed the employees, but also wrote the news himself, collected information material.

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Journalist Pavel Lobkov

In 1995, he moved to Moscow and began filming stories for the very popular news programs Segodnya, The Other Day and Itogi. At the same time, together with journalists Leonid Parfyonov, he created and hosted a social and political TV show in the format of the talk show “Hero of the Day”. Thanks to this program, in 1998, Lobkov was awarded the title of "Best Reporter" at the annual TEFI television award.

When in April 2001 a raider takeover and a forced change of leadership took place on the NTV channel, Lobkov, like most other employees, left the channel of his own free will and collaborated with TNT for some time. But very soon the journalist returned to his native place of work and created a new project "Plant Life", in which he professionally spoke about the flora of the planet, based on the knowledge gained at the university in his specialty.

Pavel Lobkov with NTV colleagues / facebook

Also, Lobkov was simultaneously engaged in correspondent activities for other Channel Four programs, mainly choosing the political direction of the news. But after his satirical story about NTV General Director Nikolai Senkevich, which appeared in 2003 in the Namedni program, which caused a great public outcry, the journalist for a long time withdrew from information and political activities.

From 2006 to 2008, he also collaborated with the Petersburg-Fifth Channel TV and Radio Company, where he hosted the Progress with Pavel Lobkov program. Pavel worked at NTV until January 2012, but was fired due to a story prepared, but never aired, about massive fraud in the parliamentary elections in December 2011. This video has been posted for general viewing on the Internet.

Jambox's interview with journalist Pavel Lobkov

Since February 2012, he has been employed by the independent Dozhd TV channel, where he works as a TV presenter for the Let's Go Home program in a duet with writer and journalist Sasha Filipenko.

In 2014, together with his broadcast colleague Anna Mongait, Pavel Lobkov decided to become a member of the Ice Bucket Challenge charity flash mob, which had previously started in America. Its essence was that a public person douses himself with ice water and challenges three more famous people to a “duel”. If they accept the challenge and do the same - the chain continues, in case of refusal - everyone must contribute at least $ 100 to the account of the charitable organization. Those who dared to undergo an extreme water procedure can also transfer funds.

Pavel Lobkov / facebook

Pavel Albertovich, having poured himself from a bucket on the air of the Dozhd TV channel, made a challenge to three Russian entrepreneurs - Yuri Kovalchuk and. It is interesting that in the USA such celebrities as Satya Nadella participated in the action.

In 2016, Lobkov announced from his Facebook page that he was leaving the Dozhd channel. The reason for this was the policy of the channel's management, which influenced its appearance. The journalist advocated the return of "large-scale, secular, witty" content, which, in his opinion, is now "plugged up with rags." , the general director of the television company, promised to meet the TV presenter halfway and make changes to the broadcasting schedule. The conversation between Lobkov and the head of the channel took place live.

Documentaries

Another page of Lobkov's creative biography is documentary. In August 2008, Pavel Albertovich began filming documentaries for the NTV channel. These were scientific detective stories in which the author-journalist spoke about various discoveries in the field of biology, medicine, physiology, about the history of the ban on genetics in the USSR, and similar scientific and near-scientific facts.

Documentary "The Dictatorship of the Brain"

Such films as "Genes Against Us", "Dictatorship of the Brain", "The Power of Sleep", "Pill for Old Age", "Empire of the Senses" and other TV documentaries received a wide response. In total, before his dismissal from NTV, Pavel Lobkov managed to film 14 scientific and educational programs. He also participated in the creation of a number of descriptive programs - “Profession - Reporter”, “Central Television”, “NTVshniki”.

Disease

On the air of the Hard Days Night program, which took place on December 1, 2015 on the Dozhd TV channel, the topic of discussion was dedicated to World AIDS Day. The guest of the telecast was Doctor of Medical Sciences, Academician Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky, who raised the urgent issue of the catastrophic state of affairs in Russia in the area of ​​recognition by the authorities of the seriousness of the situation with those who fell ill with the “plague of the 20th century”. According to Pokrovsky, the number of people infected with HIV is approaching a million.

Program "Hard Days Night" - Pavel Lobkov: "I was diagnosed with HIV in 2003"

Then Pavel Lobkov made a sensational statement: it turns out that he himself is a carrier of HIV infection, and he became infected back in 2003. The problem of such patients, according to the TV journalist, lies in the prejudice and bad attitude towards such patients, not only on the part of the surrounding people, but even on the part of doctors.

Lobkov said that the first infectious disease doctor who discovered HIV in Pavel Albertovich reported this terrible information rather detachedly and without the necessary participation. Moreover, he removed his patient from the voluntary health insurance program.

And only Academician Pokrovsky, who became Lobkov's attending physician, was able to adequately analyze the situation, develop a program to slow down the progression of the immunodeficiency virus and provide moral support to a person who finds himself in a terrible situation. Later, in an interview given by the journalist on the radio station "Moscow speaking", he explained that he confessed to having a terrible disease in order to relieve people of fear of HIV-infected people.

Program "Present Time" - How to survive in Russia with a diagnosis of HIV. Interview with Pavel Lobkov

According to Pavel Albertovich, he managed to live without therapy for 7 years, after which his immune status began to fall, and his viral load increased. The prescribed treatment initially led to the occurrence of side effects, so a change in the medication regimen was required.

Now the TV journalist is confidently looking to the future, the amount of the virus in his blood is approaching zero, which allows Pavel to lead a normal life. Lobkov participates in events that highlight the problem of AIDS. In particular, together with the activist in 2016, he met with. Photos of the meeting were posted on Instagram.

Personal life

The personal life of a journalist is hidden from prying eyes. It is only known that Lobkov has no wife and children. The journalist did not commit an official coming-out in a non-traditional orientation, but he does not refute the information about his belonging to sexual minorities.

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/ Valery Levitin

Famous TV presenter Pavel Lobkov denied the information about the robbery. Earlier, there were reports in the media that on September 12 two unidentified men beat and robbed a journalist. The attack allegedly took place on 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street.

“Today there was nothing, no attacks, everything is fine. This is all a lie, duck, ”Lobkov said in an interview with the radio station“ Moscow Speaks ”.

AiF.ru gives a biography of Pavel Lobkov.

Lobkov Pavel Albertovich was born on September 21, 1967 in a small suburb of Leningrad, Sestroretsk. After graduating from a local high school in 1983, he entered the prestigious Leningrad State University, Faculty of Biology, where he majored in botany.

After 5 years of hard work and getting an honors degree, the young man got into graduate school, developed a scientific project, and even had an internship at a research center at one of the Dutch national universities. He also worked at the Leningrad Botanical Institute. Nevertheless, Pavel Albertovich did not defend his dissertation, since by that time he had become interested in journalism and decided to try himself in this capacity.

Pavel Lobkov began his career as a journalist as a correspondent. At first, he collected information for the Unified Television Information Service of the Petersburg State Television and Radio Company, including appearing on the screen in the popular Fifth Wheel program.

After 3 years, he switched to the independent NTV channel and became the director of the St. Petersburg branch, but Lobkov not only managed the employees, but also wrote news himself, collected information material.

In 1995, he moved to Moscow and began filming stories for the very popular news programs Segodnya, The Other Day and Itogi. In parallel, along with two other well-known journalists Leonid Parfenov and Dmitry Kiselyov created and hosted a socio-political TV show in the format of the talk show "Hero of the Day". Thanks to this program, in 1998, Pavel Lobkov was awarded the title of "Best Reporter" at the annual Taffy television award.

In April 2001, Lobkov voluntarily left the TV channel and collaborated with TNT for some time. But very soon the journalist returned to his native place of work and created a new project "Plant Life", in which he professionally spoke about the flora of our planet, based on the knowledge gained at the university in his specialty.

Also, Lobkov was simultaneously engaged in correspondent activities for other programs of the 4th channel, mainly choosing the political direction of the news. But after his satirical story about the director general of NTV Nicholas Senkevich, which caused a great public outcry, the journalist for a long time completely moved away from information and political activities.

From 2006 to 2008, he also collaborated with the Petersburg-Fifth Channel TV channel, where he hosted the Progress with Pavel Lobkov program.

Pavel Lobkov worked at NTV until January 2012, but was fired due to a story prepared, but never aired, about massive fraud in the parliamentary elections in December 2011. This video has been posted for public viewing on the Internet.

Since February 2012, he has been employed by the Dozhd TV channel, where he works as a TV presenter of the Let's Go at Home program in a duet with a writer and a journalist. Sasha Filipenko.

Personal life

Pavel Lobkov was not married.

In December 2015, on the air of the Hard Days Night program on the Dozhd TV channel, during a discussion on the fight against AIDS, Lobkov spoke about the fact that he had also been a carrier of HIV infection since 2003.

Participated in the creation of the following documentary and feature films:

2009 - Genes are against us

2009 - Dictatorship of the brain

2009 - Infection: the enemy is within us

2010 - A pill for old age

2010 - Formula of love

2010 - Life without pain

2011 - Gene of Omnipotence

2011 - Strange floor

2011 - Great Optical Illusion

2011 - Empire of feelings

Once an excellent host of a program about the plant world, now he has become an ordinary opposition TV journalist. In 2015, Pavel Lobkov admitted on the air of the Dozhd TV channel that he had been HIV-positive for a long time. In recent years, his name has mostly been mentioned in the press in connection with somewhat strange reasons. Either he is robbed and beaten, or he is detained by the police for being in a public place in a somewhat indecent fancy dress.

early years

Pavel Lobkov was born on September 21, 1967 in Sestroretsk, a small resort town in the Leningrad Region. After graduating from high school, he entered the biological faculty of the Leningrad State University, where he specialized in botany. After graduating in 1988, he entered graduate school. For some time he worked in the botanical garden, trained in Holland. But he never defended his dissertation, because he became interested in journalism.

The creative biography of Pavel Lobkov began with work as a correspondent for the information service of the Petersburg corporation. He made various stories for city television, including appearing in the popular program "The Fifth Wheel", one of the highest rated at that time. Since 1993, he directed the local branch of the independent NTV channel, while continuing to film programs.

Television career

In 1995, Pavel Lobkov moved to Moscow, where he shoots news stories for the most popular news programs, including Itogi, Segodnya and The Other Day. At the same time, together with two popular TV journalists Dmitry Kiselev and Leonid Parfenov, he became the creator and co-host of the political talk show Hero of the Day. For his work on this program, he was awarded the TEFI-1998 award in the Best Reporter nomination.

After the change of ownership on the NTV channel, like many other employees, he voluntarily leaves the channel as a sign of protest. However, a month later he returns to the channel that has become his native. From 2000 to 2006, he worked as the author and host of the "Plant World" program, in which he professionally, with great love, spoke about the flora of various parts of our planet. This is probably the most successful project of Pavel Lobkov, thanks to which he was well known and loved by the country's TV viewers.

Opposition journalist

For two years (2006-2008) he worked as the host of the program "Progress with Pavel Lobkov" on the fifth channel in St. Petersburg. Since 2008, he returned to NTV again, where he filmed stories for the highest rated programs, including Central Television and NTVshniki. He directed a series of scientific documentaries in the detective genre, including Dictatorship of the Brain, Genes Against Us, and Empire of the Senses.

He was fired from NTV before the expiration of the contract, according to one version, for filming a story about fraud in the parliamentary elections in 2011, which was never aired. Since February 2012, he has been working on the Dozhd TV channel, where he hosts various programs.

Scandalous installation

In April 2017, the journalist was detained and taken to the police station for violating public order. Pavel was filmed in a penis costume near the installation installed as part of the Easter Gift festival taking place in the capital. It includes cultural and charitable events. The TV presenter was filmed in a costume that, in his opinion, emphasized the compositional similarity with a street installation in the shape of an Easter egg.

On the television channel "Rain" they said that Pavel Albertovich was dressed in such an extravagant suit because he was filming for the program "Burden of News". Before the police took him away, he filmed near the object. Then a photo of Pavel Lobkov in a penis costume was posted on social networks. The journalist was brought to the Kitai-Gorod police department, where he wrote an explanation. A little later, after paying a fine of 500 rubles, they released him. The police did not detain the cameraman who filmed the story with Lobkov.

sensational confession

A well-known TV presenter in 2015 admitted for the first time that he had learned about HIV infection 12 years ago. Pavel Lobkov decided to do it on the air of the Dozhd TV channel in a program prepared for the World AIDS Day, which is celebrated all over the world on December 1st.

Pavel invited his doctor to a television program, whom he treated when he first learned about the terrible diagnosis. The guest was Academician Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky, who called for the recognition of the state of affairs with the so-called "plague of the 20th century" as a catastrophe. There are only about a million people infected with HIV in the country, of whom perhaps one in five has already died. Official Russian departments believe that there are about 1% of such people in the country, but almost a third of them do not know about their illness.

Living with HIV

Pavel Lobkov said in the program that the first infectious disease doctor who made the diagnosis told him dryly. Very distant and not supportive of his patient. And even deprived him of access to the voluntary medical insurance program. After that, he had to look for a private doctor. Then he worked on the NTV channel, which was served in the clinic of the presidential administration.

Academician Pokrovsky, who became the attending physician of Pavel Albertovich, was able to develop a treatment strategy that slows down the development of the immunodeficiency virus. The doctor morally supports the patient and closely monitors his condition. Now the TV presenter is taking special medications and feels quite normal. Lobkov himself believes that the root of the problem is the negative attitude of a large part of the population towards such patients. The general public and even doctors are prejudiced against HIV-infected people.

Later, in an interview with the radio station "Moscow speaking" Pavel Lobkov said that he confessed to the disease in order to help relieve people of the fear of HIV patients. After this broadcast, the press began to widely discuss the personal life of Pavel Lobkov with HIV. A photo of a famous TV presenter after a sensational recognition appeared in almost all the leading publications in the world.

personal information

The TV presenter has never been married and has no children. And the personal life of Pavel Lobkov still periodically becomes the subject of public discussion. After his admission that he was HIV-positive, some media began to write that he was gay. What he allegedly said in the same television program. Other media write that he never hid his unconventional orientation and at the same time did not advertise.

In the winter of 2013, the TV presenter recorded a video for the Be Strong project, where he spoke in defense of sexual minorities, spoke out against their oppression and manifestations of homophobia.

As a professional botanist, Pavel Lobkov has a corresponding hobby - gardening and floriculture. He spends most of his free time at a dacha near Moscow, where he carefully takes care of his favorite plants. For a long time I collected unusual items with a "history". For some time they were old phones, however, then they cooled down and most of the exhibits of the collection were given away to their friends and acquaintances. He left only a few of his most beloved and memorable devices.

compares himself to Mikhail Gorbachev and complains about being bullied by homophobes.

Recently, the host of the Dozhd TV channel, 48-year-old Pavel Lobkov, admitted that since 2003 he has been living with the human immunodeficiency virus. The confession was made on the air of the evening show Hard Day's Night on December 1, dedicated to World AIDS Day. The guest of that broadcast was also the first attending physician of the journalist Vadim Pokrovsky.

The day after the revelation, Lobkov wrote on social networks that a revolution had taken place in his life and "in the fight against the Middle Ages" he "began perestroika from himself, as MS Gorbachev bequeathed." "Middle Ages" are those who allowed themselves critical attacks against an HIV-infected liberal leader.

Journalists tried to find out how Pavel Lobkov became infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. And they came to the conclusion that, most likely, the journalist suffered because of his homosexual contacts.

In particular, Pavel Lobkov was fired from the NTV channel due to his non-traditional sexual orientation.

The first time Lobkov was asked from the TV channel in 2006. He himself assured that he was simply tired of conducting "Plant Life". However, in the corridors of the TV studio, they whispered about something else: the presenter was fired because of his non-traditional sexual orientation, "which everyone knows about."

According to NTV workers, because of his homosexuality, Lobkov more than once got into piquant situations.

"Because of Pasha's inherent femininity, the editors did not like him and insulted him behind his back," one of the channel's employees said.

In addition, NTV employees told how, one night, Pavel Lobkov, who had been drunk, called NTV CEO Vladimir Kulistikov on his mobile and began to complain that his work did not bring satisfaction. In conversation, the TV presenter was extremely gentle and even called the boss "my baby." However, Kulistikov did not appreciate the gentle impulse of the blue screen star. According to the TV party, he rudely interrupted the conversation and asked Pavel to go to his office the next day - there Lobkov wrote a letter of resignation.

In 2008, Lobkov returned to NTV. But in 2012 they said goodbye to him again: they did not renew the contract.

“Kulistikov decided for me. Pushkin has wonderful lines: “These tears are shed for the first time: it hurts and it’s pleasant, as if I had done a heavy duty ... As if a healing knife cut off my suffering member!” So I told Vladimir Mikhailovich Kulistikov that he cut off the suffering member. The member no longer suffers, "Lobkov ironically over his dismissal.

I am Pavel.

Lobkov, Rain's only white-haired employee. They also call me PalAlbertych. Although I am against ageism, let them call it - it develops diction well. And I'm 20
I gave years to NTV, and it seems there is not a single genre in which he would not work - a universal soldier.

Oh no, there is one - it's sports reporting. I don't understand what kind of human activity this is. I learned a lot on Rain - not to flinch when they suddenly take a picture of me with an iPhone, shoot with a “baby” camera, comment on the news live without preparation. Sometimes I write something on Facebook, but I still don't consider it a personal medium. There

rather, you can see pictures of any exotic plants that come across to me. They are more attractive than human faces anyway, sorry.

I was born in the Finnish swamps, in Sestroretsk, in 1967. We lived in a wooden tenement house of a semi-barrack type, my parents and grandmother strictly punished me not to show signs of delight at a party when a tap with water, a bathtub or a telephone was found there. It has helped me a lot in 30 years. At the height of the era of consumerism. On the other hand, the “urban” did not have a round Dutch stove and a woodshed that smelled of mice and it was very convenient to read mossy magazines like Tekhnika-Youth, huddled in a corner.

My first television impression was the broadcast of the funeral of the deceased cosmonaut Dobrovolsky. My first television experience - in 1980 I stood on the horns of a new Japanese camera on the Rowing Channel, bought to broadcast the Olympic Games. University exams in 1983 were terribly nerve-wracking, because otherwise Afghanistan was in danger. Since then, I've been nervous before any important event and can't help myself. After the Faculty of Biology, I wrote a dissertation, but outside there were rallies, the country was changing, “The Fifth Wheel”, “Telecourier” on the glorious St. Petersburg TV, then the young and arrogant NTV of Gusinsky-Dobrodeev-Parfyonov.

In 2001, politics became repulsive on all sides, and pulled to the ground - to the Plant Life program. I came up with the name and concept in a tram, since then countless copies have appeared on all channels, and I stopped getting involved in grass and in 2006 for the first time left NTV for the “updated fifth”, and two years later, when everything was covered with a basin, I returned to NTV make popular science films, but it was a completely different NTV. I was expelled from there after the 2011 elections, then my bosses followed me in a friendly wedge. When we worked there, our slogan for Dozhd was derisive - "And we drizzle." Now my personal slogan is “Do you want to make a wet place out of us? Will not work!"

Relations with the state are complex. At the salute on February 23, 1970, I sat on my dad's shoulders, and when the guns rumbled, I peed myself. I was very wet, cold and uncomfortable in front of my dad. Since then, I somehow eschew the big state style. And I privatized "Plant Life" - I conduct it only in the country and never take pictures there. At the dacha there is a Dutch stove, although it is square - they forgot how to make round ones.