Pavel Lobkov

Pavel Lobkov
Born
Pavel Albertovich Lobkov

(1967-09-21) 21 September 1967 (age 57)
Sestroretsk, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
OccupationJournalist
Years active1990–present

Pavel Albertovich Lobkov (Russian: Павел Альбертович Лобков; born 21 September 1967) is a Russian journalist. He was one of the main presenters and commentators on the television channel TV Rain (2012–2021). Previously, he was the host of the program Progress with Pavel Lobkov on Petersburg – Channel 5 (2007–2008), NTV (1993–2006; 2008–2011),[1] and the program correspondent Itogi (1993–2001).

Biography

He was born in the city of Sestroretsk (Sestroretsk District of Leningrad; now in the Kurortny District of St. Petersburg). In 1988 he graduated from the biological faculty of the Leningrad State University with a degree in botany.[2] He studied at the graduate school of the Botanical Institute of Komarov Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Internship in Holland, but he did not defend the thesis.[3][4]

Since 1990 he worked as a correspondent for the information service of the TRK Petersburg, including the Fifth Wheel program.[4] Since October 1993 – Director of the representation of NTV in St. Petersburg.[5] From 1995 to 2004 he was a correspondent for the NTV information service. He did subjects for the information programs Segodnya, Itogi,[4] Namedni,[6] and Country and World.

From 1995 to 1997, together with Yevgeny Kiselyov and Leonid Parfyonov, he led the program Hero of the Day.[7] Laureate of TEFI-1998 as the best reporter.[8]

Since August 2006 the author of a number of documentary projects at Petersburg – Channel 5.[9] He was also the chief editor of the Directorate of Documentary Broadcasting of the Channel 5 and directed the information and analytical program Week in a Large Country.[10][11]

In 2008 he returned to NTV, where he was dismissed on 16 January 2012, before the end of the contract.

Since February 2012 he works on the TV Rain channel. In February 2013 he recorded a video message for the project Be Stronger, directed against homophobia.[12] He was the host of the program We Ride at Home on Rain, paired with Sasha Filipenko.[13] Now he is one of the leading final news and the weekly program The Burden of News.

Personal life

Pavel Lobkov was never married and has no children.[14] On 1 December 2015, on the air of TV Rain, Lobkov announced that he is HIV-positive since 2003.[15] He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the AIDS.Center Foundation.[16]

In 2019, he came out as gay.[17]

In December 2023, Lobkov said he was beaten at Patriarch Ponds in Moscow, in what he suggested was a homophobic attack, but he did not give further details.[18][19]

Filmography

Documentary

  • 1999 — The Mausoleum[20][21]
  • 2001 — USSR: The Last Days
  • 2008 — Tulip, Rose, Orchid
  • 2009 — Genes Against Us
  • 2009 — The Dictatorship of the Brain
  • 2009 — Infected: Enemy Within Us
  • 2010 — Tablet from Old Age
  • 2010 — The Formula of Love
  • 2010 — Life for Food
  • 2010 — The Power of Sleep
  • 2010 — Life Without Pain
  • 2011 — The Gene of Power
  • 2011 — The Strange Sex
  • 2011 — The Great Deception of the Vision
  • 2011 — The Empire of Feelings

Feature films

References

  1. ^ Pavel Lobkov (December 28, 2016). "Я испытывала страшные мучения, когда меня травило НТВ". TV Rain. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Придворный садовник". Московский комсомолец. November 13, 2000.
  3. ^ "Павел Лобков: В школе я делал взрывчатку". Праздник Инфо, МК-Бульвар. October 18, 2004.
  4. ^ a b c "Павел Лобков. От НТВ до Дождя". РИА Новости. October 10, 2013.
  5. ^ "Павел Лобков: Не подниму тост ни за здравие, ни за упокой НТВ". РИА Новости. October 10, 2013.
  6. ^ "Искусство возможного". Известия. March 26, 2004.
  7. ^ "Лобкова уволили с НТВ". flb.ru. August 1, 2006.
  8. ^ "Победители конкурса «ТЭФИ—1998»". Archived from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  9. ^ "Лобков вернётся на НТВ". Sobesednik. June 17, 2008. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016.
  10. ^ ""ТРК Петербург – Пятый канал" основательно подготовился". МедиаАтлас. September 28, 2006. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  11. ^ "Ответы. Павел Лобков, тележурналист". Afisha. August 27, 2007. Archived from the original on December 8, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  12. ^ "Будь сильнее. Павел Лобков". Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  13. ^ "Владимир Кара-Мурза-старший: Ложь, увы, победила". Sobesednik. July 17, 2015.
  14. ^ Телеведущий Павел Лобков. Досье
  15. ^ "Павел Лобков: У меня обнаружили ВИЧ в 2003 году". YouTube. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  16. ^ "Что такое фонд СПИД.Центр". AIDS.Center. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  17. ^ Павел Лобков: как меня лечили от «гомосексуализма»
  18. ^ "В Москве избили журналиста Павла Лобкова - Газета.Ru | Новости". Газета.Ru (in Russian). 1 January 2024.
  19. ^ "Gay Russian Anchor, Journalist Lobkov Alleges Moscow Beating". RFE/RL.
  20. ^ Павел Лобков. |7 дней
  21. ^ "Пейзаж после праздников". Известия. January 30, 2004.
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