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 a hunting magazine, was a candidate of biological sciences, a photographer and a journalist.
Gusev Oleg Kirillovich was an inquisitive explorer 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 for evacuation. Fascinated by the beauty and wealth 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 a higher education, in 1953.
Gusev worked in the 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, in charge of the biological station.
Career
Oleg Kirillovich studied the ornithology of the Baikal region and Baikal, wrote a Ph. D. thesis on the ecology of the sable, was one of the initiators of the creation of the Baikal-Lensky reserve. The inquisitive scientist sailed across Lake Baikal many times in a boat, walked around the entire coastal area of this reservoir. After such creative and scientific travels, many photographs were left, which was taken by Oleg Kirillovich.
In 1963 he joined the Ministry of Agriculture as a senior engineer. A year later, he was appointed editor of a magazine covering television and radio events. Here he worked for 48 years.
Creation
O. K. Gusev published several dozen publicistic and scientific works. In them, he covered the problems of ecology, national parks. Oleg Kirillovich wrote about Baikal, about nature and hunting and fishing economy, as he thoroughly studied this topic.
He wrote more than 10 books, mainly devoted to Lake Baikal, its nature and the problem of preserving the ecology of this unique corner. Among his books are such works as:
- “On the Enchanted Shore”;
- "Naturalist at Baikal";
- "Sacred Baikal";
- "Around Baikal".
The writer and researcher made a great contribution to the study of the deepest lake and the Baikal territory.
One of the authors, who wrote for a magazine on hunting, recalls that one day Oleg Kirillovich came to him on the Klyazma. There was a hunting lodge. The Ph. D. arrived with his son George. This means that Oleg Kirillovich was a happy husband and father.
The author of the magazine recalls with what admiration they spoke with the hunting expert about the amazing picture of the flood, about how much game there was that spring. The host and guests enjoyed a successful hunt, and then the environmental scientist talked for a long time about the beauty of the deepest lake, about his travels along the mountain and taiga paths of the country.
The famous hunting expert was the chairman of the Baikal Nature Conservation Society, then he was awarded the status of an academician, the title of Honored Worker of Culture. Gusev O. K. was awarded medals and orders for his numerous services.
