Igor Spilenok biography

The blogger, laureate of the Bi-Bi-Bi contest “Wildlife photographer” and the domestic “Golden Turtle”, the spitter is always interesting to our journalist brother. Recently, an interview with him was published by the website of the Russian Geographical Society. The main topic is the fight against poachers, which Igor Spilenok and his loved ones have been led for many years.

The teacher by profession, Igor Spilenok chose a protected business, to whom he decided to devote himself to a teenager. Once I came there in the spring and admired the primroses between the old oaks and pines. Then I first regretted that my mother and grandmother did not see this beauty, and realized that I needed a camera. But while they bought a camera for me, the primroses have already faded.

I dreamed for a whole year how I would shoot them. He waited for spring, came there and saw tractors who dragged felled logs. The remnants of the primroses went tracks of caterpillars. And at that moment I promised myself that I would try to remove the economic yoke from the Bryansk forest. I was fourteen years old, ”he told the RGO correspondent. After the university, Igor settled in the forest on the cordon and began to collect materials to create a reserve.

He already understood that photography was a strong tool. Therefore, I shot a lot. She was huge, in ten numbers, the newspaper gave the entire 4th page to this story, and many read it. The All -Russian Society for the Protection of Nature then held a competition among the media for the best publication on nature protection. I took first place, like the newspaper Bryansk Worker, which published my story.

The head of the Society for Nature Protection came to Bryansk, I had to organize a whole expedition to get to me, ”says Igor Petrovich. So, the Bryansk Forest was created. At the age of 27, the spitter became its director and worked in this position for 10 years. The first director of the reserve is a great responsibility because it lays traditions. I hope I succeeded.

Father helped a lot. When I went to live on the cordon, he moved to me and settled down a forester. He supported me in the economic plan - we got a cow, the garden when the reserve was formed, I was obliged to accept all the people living on its territory to the staff, such was social protection. Among them, I hired my father. It turns out that not my father influenced me as an environment, but I am on him.

Looking at how the case is about, he was carried away, especially the struggle with poachers, ”recalls the spiker. Jealously monitors whether young inspectors cope with poachers. A lot of poachers in the Bryansk Forest? For many years, since the poaching reserve itself is not completely, our security inspectors know their job. And during the formation of the reserve, whole poaching families were trained there.

Forest is not only money, but also an administrative resource. In some villages, the local authorities drove eminent hunters. I managed to quickly establish myself, because I did not catch simple hard workers on poaching, but took up a more “large fish”. They began to organize the raids on me. In response, I wrote an article and published it in the newspaper Soviet Russia. The first secretary of the regional committee of the party then shamed me: “Well, what are you so!

We support you, and because of your article they reproach me that I am doing a bad personnel work! He did not take revenge for driving a party nomenclature? There was no revenge on top, but from the people with whom I entered the conflict. I then wanted to buy a house outside the reserve. I looked at the right option, discussed the conditions of sale, they did not suit me.

But the rumor went that I bought this house. And he was burned. That is why I live in a brick house: I took into account experience. There were quite a few such situations. Was it difficult to catch poachers? It was interesting. They had to be replayed. If you leave on a motor boat, in uniform, with weapons, all poachers will scatter. Now, due to cell phones, you didn’t have time to get the motor, and already all a hundred kilometers around know that the operational group was leaving.

But even then it was necessary to disguise themselves. I loved to portray a tourist - sailing on a kayak, put a girl with an oar, the transistor receiver turned on the poachers are not afraid, ignore, and you can take them “warm”. And once my first wife involuntarily prompted the solution to the problem. Did she work in the reserve too? No, she then worked at school. This has now become an employee of the Bryansk Forest - works in the department of ecological education of the reserve.

At that time, the writer George Metelsky wrote the story “Black Streams” about the creation of a reserve. He brought me out as a literary hero, more precisely, three - too many events turned out to be for one character. At the same time, he believed that for the plot the main character needs a lover: they say, a very energetic image, no one would believe that he does not have a violent personal life.

The story was published in the magazine, and my wife read it. As a result, a long investigation began: she found out that I was doing so much time in the forest. She had to prove that “black streams” is a work of art and I have nothing to do with it.How did this help in the fight against poachers? We had one very smart professional poacher in the reserve, which competently collected information.

After all, here is how: the reserve collects information about poachers, and poachers collect information about the instructors. He simply exhausted us: we were waiting for him in one place, at that time he caught fish in another. We put two groups, and he was in third place. We blocked everything - he did not come at all. I learned from my informants that the broadcast of the reserve was listening.

And he led Radio Igra, but not with him, but with his wife. The fact is that he went to poaching at night, for the period when the ice begins to freeze - at this time fishing in wintering pits are very successful.

And we managed to give his wife the impression that he was not fishing, but for love meetings. As a result, his wife closed him for ten days under house arrest. She sent to the cellar for cucumbers and locked it. This, perhaps, is not the most legally true way to deal with poachers, but very effective, as it turned out, I always dreamed of Kamchatka.

To begin with, I went to the Kronotsky Reserve for two weeks and stayed there for fifteen years. A huge uninhabited earth, where white people with firearms came only years ago, so that animals have no genetic fear of man. This is the last paradise on Earth, where bears, foxes and other animals are not afraid of us, do not run away - they have to give way. It turned out that there are the same problems as in other reserves - a shortage of personnel.

When I ended up in the Geneer Valley in the year, I talked with the director of the Kronotsky Reserve. And in the end, he took me an inspector, first in the very valley of geysers. Then I asked for the most dull places of the Kronotsky Reserve, where there are no people at all. One year he lived at all without civilization, among wild animals. He was drunk then. It is very difficult to monitor how much a distant place is observed in such a distant place.

And at the beginning of X there was a frenzied poaching, industrial poaching, especially in the territory of the South Kamchatka Federal Reserve, which was relatively new. Caviar was harvested, the bears fired at the bile, a private hotel was on the grass of herbal, private helicopters flew. The Kamchatka elite crushed this part of Kamchatka for themselves, and the reserve employees, including the director, had no special rights.

And the territory is federal. All this was greatly beaten by the image of the protected system. And Vsevolod Borisovich Stepanitsky, who for many years has unlimitedly led the protected system, invited me to try to change the situation. My eldest son then worked as the head of the guard of the Kurilsky reserve. And Stepanitsky decided: “Tikhon matured to work in Kamchatka.