Vasily Peskov

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| name = Vasily Peskov

| image = Vasiliy Peskov - MIBF 2011 - 5.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|03|14|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Orlovo, Central Black Earth Oblast, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|8|12|1930|3|14|df=yes}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| occupation = Writer, journalist

| nationality = Russian

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| notableworks = Lost in the Taiga

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Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov ({{langx|ru|Васи́лий Миха́йлович Песко́в}}; 14 March 1930 – 12 August 2013[http://www.kp.ru/daily/26118.5/3012340/ Ушёл из жизни легендарный журналист, автор «Окна в природу» Василий Михайлович Песков]) was a Soviet and Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveler and ecologist. He worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990, he conducted the TV programme In the World of Animals on Soviet TV.

In 1964, he was awarded a Lenin Prize. In 1990, he was among the winners of UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour. In 2013, the Voronezh Nature Reserve, one of the oldest reserves in Russia, was officially renamed in his honor.