Oleg Aliev

Oleg Aliev
explorer, documentary filmmaker
Born	Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Ethnography Adventure
Notable awards	Хрустальный глобус, орден Меценатов, медаль Русской Православной Церкви “Благодатное Небо”, учрежденная Алексием II

Oleg Aliev — Russian explorer and the director of more than 25 documentary films about indigenous small-numbered peoples of the World. In 1991 he founded the project “Disappearing World”. He devoted more than 15 years of his life to study of primitive tribes living in the regions of our Planet that are highly difficult to access. He was the first in Russia to produce wide-screen documentary films with the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound in DVD format. To film the documentary Oleg Aliev crossed the South American continent on the equator from the coast of Pacific to Atlantic Ocean. Oleg Aliev is the fellow of the Russian Geographical Society and member of Asian Geographic Society. He was selected as the honorary member of the European Academy of Survival. Professor, UNESCO Chair, RMAT. He was awarded with the Order of Maecenas. For the installation of the first monument on the territory of the Oceania and Australia, to the great Russian scientist and researcher N. N. Mikluho-Maklai, in 2001 he received the “Cristal Globe”, the highest Russian award for the progress in the tourism and travels. In the year of 2003, for many years of work, Oleg Aliev received a medal “Blessed Heaven” established by Patriarch Alexy II, from the Russian Orthodox Church. He lived for three years on the Borneo Island. On the island of Sumatra, Oleg found the last Kubu nomads. In the Central Africa, he was the first Russian explorer who made a film about Pygmies.

Expeditions

Oleg Aliev was the first from the modern Russian researchers who visited the inner regions of New Guinea where he lived around 13 years. On the coast of the Arctic Ocean, Oleg Aliev traveled with the Nenets. With the Tuareg nomads he crossed the largest desert, the Sahara. With the Mongol nomads he crossed the most climatically changing Gobi desert (winter -40°C, summer +58°C) on the camels. He filmed in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Northern and Central Africa, and on the islands of Oceania.

Monument to N.N.Miklouho-Maclay in Oceania

Monument to N.N.Miklouho-Maclay in New Guinea

In 2000 the first monument on the territory of Oceania to great explorer and scientist Nicolai Nicolaevich de Miklouho-Maclay was erected by Oleg Aliev.

For the installation of the first monument on the territory of the Oceania and Australia to N. N. Mikluho-Maklai, in 2001 he received the “Cristal Globe”, the highest Russian award for the progress in the tourism and travels

Monument to N.N.Miklouho-Maclay in Indonesia

A monument to world famous Russian scientist, anthropologist and explorer of the Asia-Pacific region Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay(1846–1888) was unveiled in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 3, 2011. Idea of erecting this memorial in the Indonesian capital and embodiment of it belong to Oleg Aliev. The stone bust was made in Moscow, delivered to Indonesia and installed on the territory of the Russian Centre for science and Culture in the center of Jakarta (Diponegoro str., 12).

References

• About Oleg Aliev in Passport Magazine(Moscow)

External links

• Official website

Persondata
Name	Aliev, Oleg
Alternative names
Short description	Documentary Filmmaker
Date of birth
Place of birth	Moscow, Russia
Date of death
Place of death