Timonova Evgenia Valentinovna: biography, personal life

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Timonova Evgenia is a domestic science journalist. She also works as a TV presenter, naturalist, and is considered an active popularizer of science. Since 2013, he has been running a popular blog called "Everything is like animals".

Biography of a journalist

Timonova Evgenia was born in Novosibirsk in 1976. She fell in love with nature at an early age. At the zoo, she was engaged in a circle of young naturalists, won victories at biological olympiads of various ranks.

After graduating from school, she entered Tomsk University. Timonova Evgenia studied at the Faculty of Biology. In her third year, her worldview underwent a major soul-searching when she realized that she was more of a naturalist than a biologist. As a result, she transferred to the philological faculty of the Pedagogical University in Novosibirsk. Received a diploma in the speci alty "Psychology and Literary Studies".

Television work

Timonova Evgenia, whose biography is discussed in this article, immediately after university went to work for Novosibirsk television. She started her career on a show called"Expensive pleasure".

In 2000, the girl took an important step by moving to Moscow. Here she began working in the field of advertising journalism. Mastered the speci alty of a copywriter, soon became a creative director.

She also worked in the countries of the former USSR. For example, in 2006 she headed the Kyiv women's magazine, which was called LQ. She worked as editor-in-chief for about a year.

In 2012 Evgenia Timonova became the winner of the "Best Job in Russia" contest. At the solemn ceremony, the heroine of our article met its organizers, among whom was Sergey Fenenko, who at that time was in charge of a Dutch advertising agency. Together with him, she came up with her project "Everything is like animals".

All about animals

Young fascination with animals and biology played a defining role in her career. The program "Everything is like animals" by Evgenia Timonova began to talk about biology, human nature, evolution and its connection with the animal world in a popular science format.

This turned out to be a real video channel, which Timonova began to conduct regularly on the Internet. Here she specializes in the original parallels that she draws between the behavior of animals and people, talks about the principles and root causes of our behavior, answers many questions that concern not only children, but also adults. For example, why are we naked, where did love come from, why do we need grandmothers, what do women want, why do acne hypnotize us and scare holes.

The video is designed for the widest audience of almost any age and education. It is especially interesting to watch because it also contains an entertainment component. In this, she fully tries to comply with the principle - entertaining, enlightening.

Channel "Everything is like animals"

Evgenia Valentinovna Timonova started her own channel on the Internet in the spring of 2013. An individual style for him was developed by a Dutch company, with whom Fenenko helped her to contact. At the end of 2014, the well-known cameraman Oleg Kugaev and artist Andrey Kuznetsov joined the project.

The very first season was filmed in a conventional studio against a green screen. The second was filmed entirely in Kenya. Issues of the program were devoted to wildlife. After that, most of the seasons were dedicated to a particular country. So, the program "Everything is like animals" has already visited New Zealand, Indonesia, Portugal, India, Croatia, Australia. A separate season was dedicated to Russia.

Well-known domestic biologists were involved as reviewers. For example, Stanislav Drobyshevsky, Alexander Panchin, Alexander Markov, Alexander Sokolov.

In 2016, the program "Everything is like animals" began to appear on the channel "Living Planet", which is part of the VGTRK holding. At the moment, the project has more than one hundred thousand subscribers on the Internet.

The most popular episode of the show was called "Animal Grin of Patriotism". It was devoted to the mechanisms of military propaganda. He hadseveral million views. In 2015, the channel "Everything is like animals" received an award at the competition of innovative journalism in the nomination "The best popular science blog".

Show seasons

At the moment, eight seasons of the show "Everything is like animals" have been filmed. The first one was called "The Beginning". It contained issues about penguins, the art of mimicry, female secrets of primates, procrastination, lions, praying mantises (this, by the way, is Timonova's favorite insect that lives in her house), spiders. In all these issues, the author tried to draw parallels between the behavior of people and wild animals.

The second season was called "Around Kenya in 20 Days" and the third "Anywhere". It had episodes about dolphins, bison and beavers.

The fourth season was all about human evolution. Timonova talked about sexual selection, the origin of love, massage and gossip. The title of the fifth season is "In Asia", and the sixth - "In Russia". It paid special attention to marmots, seals and seals, foxes, Przewalski's horses, domestication of cats and domestication of dogs.

Seventh season of the project "Everything is like animals" filmed in India, and the last eighth season to date in Australia. It has episodes called "Chuck Norris Among the Crocodiles", as well as episodes dedicated to the poison, milk and eggs of platypuses, the features of coral reefs, amazing sharks, and why we love their meat so much, the unique Australiananimal wombat with an original mind and ingenuity, kangaroos and dangerous Australian jellyfish.

Private life

Evgenia Timonova's personal life is developing very successfully. She got married in 2015.

The artist Andrei Kuznetsov, known for his collaboration with the Pilot animation studio, became her husband. He himself is the director of several animated films: "How the Serpent was Deceived", "The Crow-Deceiver", "The Adventures of the Fox", "Pumasipa", "The Learned Bear", "The Brave". All of them are included in the animated series "Mountain of Gems", dedicated to the fairy tales of the peoples of Russia.

As a production designer, he participated in the creation of the domestic cartoon "South of the North" and the cartoon "About Ivan the Fool". Currently, Kuznetsov, together with Timonova, is working on the project "Everything is like animals".