March 20, in the sanatorium "Yangan-Tau" held a meeting with the Chairman of the Bashkir branch of the Russian geographical society, writer, traveler Kamil Ziganshin.
He was born in Bashkortostan, but all his childhood and youth spent in the Far East. Since Junior school, he was addicted to travel. And, being older, during the summer holidays worked in geological parties with his uncle.
Later Kamil Ziganshin moved to Ufa with his family. Then he goes in Khabarovsk Krai as a staff hunter. At this time, he makes conclusions like that "the attack of animals on people in most cases instigated by the man." He says: "if you look closely, the actions of animals prove every day: not everything in their behavior is explained by instincts. They ... think, analyze! More primitive, more simplistic, than people, but think! At the same time, everyone has their own character, their habits," "for some reason we decided that we have the right to divide the animals into useful and useless, to be destroyed. In fact, wild animals are as full inhabitants of our planet as we are."
Kamil Ziganshin wrote a lot of books with his love of nature.
At the meeting, he told us about his journey - round the world "Fire belt of the Earth" on active volcanoes along the Pacific coast, captured Alaska, Canada, USA, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, etc. (68000 km).
The next time Kamil Ziganshin promised to tell about his journey to Bhutan.