Biologist biogeographer TV presenter While still at school in the summer he worked as a herder at a stud farm near Moscow studied in the VOOP club at the Darwin Museum After school he entered the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University MV Lomonosov in 1963 he graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University where he studied at the Department of Biogeography In 1968 he defended his thesis in 2000 a doctoral dissertation Works at the Department of Biogeography Faculty of Geography Moscow State University since 2001 professor He lectures on ecology ornithology nature conservation biogeography of the world As a researcher he participated in numerous scientific expeditions throughout the USSR Kamchatka the Far East the Kuril Islands the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains and the Karakum desert In the years 19711972 he trained at the Department of Zoology of the Australian National University in Canberra About his travels in Australia he wrote the book Boomerang Flight In 1980 he participated in a UNESCO expedition on the research vessel of the USSR Academy of Sciences Callisto to the islands of Fiji Tonga and Samoa In 1993 and 1995 participated in expeditions on the Russian icebreaker Yamal to the North Pole and along the Northern Sea Route as well as on the Discovery ship along the coasts of Alaska and Canada NN Drozdov is the author of about 200 scientific and popular science articles more than 20 books and textbooks