Timonova Evgenia - domestic scientific journalist. He also works as a TV presenter, naturalist, is considered an active promoter of science. Since 2013, he has been running a popular blog called Everything Like Beasts.
Journalist biography
Timonova Eugene was born in Novosibirsk in 1976. She fell in love with nature in early childhood. In the zoo, she studied in a circle of young naturalists, won victories at biological competitions of different ranks.
After graduation, she entered Tomsk University. Timonova Eugene studied at the Faculty of Biology. In her third year in her worldview, a serious reassessment of values occurred when she realized that she was more likely a naturalist than a biologist. As a result, she transferred to the philological faculty of the pedagogical university in Novosibirsk. Received a diploma in "Psychology and Literary Studies".
Work on television
Timonova Evgenia, whose biography is considered in this article, immediately after university went to work on Novosibirsk television. She began her career in a program called "Expensive pleasure."
In 2000, the girl took an important step, having moved to Moscow. Here she began working in the field of advertising journalism. She mastered the specialty of copywriter, and soon became a creative director.
She worked in the countries of the former USSR. For example, in 2006 she headed the Kiev women's magazine, which was called LQ. She worked as a chief editor for about a year.
In 2012, Timonova Eugene became the winner of the contest "Best Work in Russia". At the ceremony, the heroine of our article met with its organizers, among whom was Sergey Fenenko, who at that time was the head of the Dutch advertising agency. Together with him she came up with her project "Everything is like animals".
All about animals
A youthful passion for animals and biology played a decisive role in her career. The program "Everything is like animals" Evgenia Timonova began to talk about biology, human nature, evolution and its connection with the animal world in a popular scientific format.
This turned out to be a real video channel, which Timonova began to conduct regularly on the Internet. Here she specializes in original parallels drawn between the behavior of animals and humans, 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 contains an entertaining component. In this, she completely tries to comply with the principle - entertaining, enlighten.
Channel "Like animals"
Evgenia Valentinovna Timonova started her own channel on the Internet in the spring of 2013. An individual style was developed for him by a Dutch company, which Fenenko helped to contact with. At the end of 2014, the famous cameraman Oleg Kugaev and artist Andrei Kuznetsov joined the project.
The very first season was shot in a regular studio against a green screen. The second was shot entirely in Kenya. Program releases were dedicated 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 Russian biologists were involved as reviewers. For example, Stanislav Drobyshevsky, Alexander Panchin, Alexander Markov, Alexander Sokolov.
In 2016, the program “Everything Like Beasts” began to appear on the Living Planet channel, 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 release of the show was entitled "The Animal Grin of Patriotism". It was devoted to the mechanisms of military propaganda. He had several million views. In 2015, the “Everything Like Beasts” channel received an award in the competition for 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 shot. The very first was called "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 at her house), spiders. In all these issues, the author tried to draw parallels between the behavior of humans and wildlife.
The second season was called “Around Kenya in 20 Days,” and the third “Anywhere.” In it there were issues about dolphins, bison and beavers.
The fourth season was entirely devoted to human evolution. Timonova talked about sexual selection, the origin of love, massage and gossip. The name of the fifth season is "In Asia", and the sixth - "In Russia." In it, special attention was paid to marmots, seals and seals, foxes, Przhevalsky horses, domesticating cats and taming dogs.
The seventh season the project team "Everything is like animals" filmed in India, and the last to date is the eighth season in Australia. It has a series called "Chuck Norris Among Crocodiles", as well as issues about poison, milk and eggs of the platypus, the characteristics of coral reefs, amazing sharks, and why we like their meat so much, a unique Australian animal wombat that has an original mind and quick wits, kangaroos and dangerous Australian jellyfish.
Personal life
Personal life of Evgenia Timonova is developing very successfully. In 2015, she got married.
Her husband was the artist Andrei Kuznetsov, known for his cooperation with the animation studio "Pilot". He himself is the director of several animated films: "How the Snake Tricked", "Raven-trickster", "Fox Adventures", "Pumasip", "Scientist Bear", "Brave". All of them are included in the animated series "Mountain of gems" dedicated to the tales of the peoples of Russia.
As a production designer, he participated in the creation of the national hand-drawn 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."