If somebody ask me how I can characterize Leonid Palko, I’ll say just one phrase. He was born to be a hunter. It happened in 1960 in the small village Podlesny in Novosibirsk region. The forest began just behind the house and as Leonid said it was more difficult not to become the hunter.
It was his brother who allowed the six years old boy Leonid to make his first shot from the rifle of 32 caliber. He hit the target-a tin can. The first hunt had happened a few years later when the got the duck. The grownups didn’t know anything.
When he was 14, his uncle presented him the new TOZ BM. Thus, his hunting career began. Everybody in their village knew that he used the hunting weapon.
Leonid began to write down hunting reports and accounted how many game he had. It happened that he took more than one hundred ducks during the hunting season!
Leonid Palko graduated the faculty of animal engineering of the NSAU in 1982 He took the active part in the social work while studied and continued to work as the first secretary of the VLKSM after graduating the Institute. It went on for nine years. From 1989 to 1991 he worked as the instructor of CK of VLKSM. But each free day he spent in the forest with his hunting gun.
Later in 1991 he moved to Moscow and organized the publishing house “Veche”. Valery Elensky became his partner, Sergey Dmitirev joined them as a partner later. He is the General Director of the company from the very beginning. Today, “Veche” is in the Top 10 of the Russian Publishing houses. They published all kinds of literature from non-fiction to business books. “Veche” is one of the few publishing houses which prints books devoted to Leonid’s hobby - hunting (the series “the World of Hunt”, “ The Hunting adventures”).
After moving to Moscow Leonid had to look for the new hunting locations and soon he interested in the trophy hunting though the hunting process is still on the first place. Later he came to the idea to buy his own hunting area in Ryzan region. His hunting farm “Elms” works perfectly.
At the end of the first decade of 2000’s he began to hunt in Africa and visited all well know hunting destinations from Namibia to South Africa and Liberia.
Later he visited other continents and hunted there. Leonid Palko became a member of the Board of Trustees in the CMH.
He’ s also the Board Member of the Russian Book Union, the member of the Publishing Council of Moscow, member of the Union of journalists of Moscow, full member and Professor of the Academy of Russian literature and fine arts, He is also the corresponding member of the Academy of Russian literature, corresponding member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and arts. At the end of the last year Leonid Palko was awarded by "Order of Honor".
The staff of the magazine congratulate our author and a good man Leonid Palko with his 60th anniversary and wish him great health! We wish him to reach the new achievements!
