Иностранные языки" в формате "Spotlight on Russia"

Find out more about this outstanding personality in our article. . Rostislav Shilo was born in a small town of Iman in Primorsky Kray on 23rd October 1940. His father was a biologist. In 1961 Rostislav Shilo became a veterinarian. Some years later in 1972 he became the director of Novosibirsk Zoo and retained the post up to his death in 2016. Rostislav Shilo did a research work all his life and used to be a successful scientist who had managed to preserve and breed rare and endangered animal species. Thanks to his hard work, purposefulness and brilliant ideas Novosibirsk Zoo obtained a larger and more comfortable territory for animals to live on and soon became a unique landmark of our city to attract the visitors from all over the world.