Alexander Viktorovich Kondrashov (born November 21, 1983, Russian: Александр Викторович Кондрашов) is a Russian travel blogger, explorer and writer. He is known primarily for his YouTube channel, Alexander Kondrashov, with 1.3 million subscribers as of November 2018.
Early life
Kondrashov was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His father was a soldier and his mother was a school teacher. At age 5, his family moved to a military town near Mozhaysk. He graduated from the military academy and later from the Automatics and Electronics department of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). He is married to a woman named Anastasiya.[1]
Career
In 2007, after 3 years of working in Konzern Transmash, Alexander opened a business selling and renting railroad cars.[citation needed]
On March 17, 2011, he launched the YouTube channel Justdoit150gmail. By November 2018, the channel had gained 1.3 million subscribers, more than 320 million views and was one of the top Russian travel blogs.[2][3][4] His most popular video is “What would happen if we put crabs with piranhas,” with more than 21 million views.[5][6]
In 2016, Alexander took part in a live video conference with Vladimir Putin from Antarctica and was invited by the Department of Tourism of Estonia to record a video review in Tallinn.[7] In 2016 he took part in the reality show Bloggers a la Fleet by Wargaming.net, where video bloggers traveled for 6 days sailing on the ship Kruzenshtern. A televised version of the project was broadcast by the Belarusian TV channel, ONT, in January 2017.[8][9][10]
In 2017, Alexander founded his advertising agency BloggersMedia to produce YouTube channels and Instagram blogs. In August 2017, together with the Mamont Cup 2017 expedition, he visited the Shantar Islands and documented the operation to save a bowhead whale trapped in a conduit of Bolshoye lake on Big Shantar Island in Okhotsk Sea.[11]
In 2018, at the request of Rosturizm, Kondrashov visited the cities of the FIFA World Cup 2018 for which he made video guides.[12][13]
Recognition
Bibliography
- Life in motion. How to achieve success while remaining true to yourself — Moscow.: Eksmo, 2019. — 352 pages, ill. ISBN 978-5-04-103232-6
References
- ^ "Alexander Kondrahov's wife" (in Russian). ego-zhena.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ Olga Tsynskaya (2018-12-30). "At the border of life and death" (in Russian). RIA News. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
- ^ Yaroslav Babushkin; Ninel Bayanova; Dmitry Starozhitsky (2018-11-22). "How much does one earn at Instagram contests? Alexander Kondrashov answers". Forbes Russia (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-01-10.
- ^ "Top 5 best YouTube channels about travels and tourism, according to Yandex.Zen". Archived from the original on 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
- ^ "Alexander Kondrashov (JustDoIt): underwater hunt or joy, which is always with you" (in Russian). vodolaz-radio.ru. 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Russian travel blogger compares Astana and Moscow City" (in Russian). zakon.kz. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Video blogger Alexander Kondrashov says, "Estonia is the first country where I am ready to bring my parents to"" (in Russian). ETV+. 2016-12-09. Archived from the original on 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ Darya Sidelnikova (2017-02-13). "How Wargaming was shooting reality show Bloggers a la Fleet" (in Russian). sostav.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Prepare bloggers a-la Fleet" (in Russian). World of Warships. 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "ONT is to broadcast reality show Bloggers a la Fleet" (in Russian). TUT.BY. 2017-01-23. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ Alena Vatbolskaya (2017-08-30). "Saving the whale at Shantar Islands: how it happened in fact" (in Russian). Vesti.ru. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "Rosturizm to pay 10 million rubles for FIFA World Cup 2018 videos" (in Russian). vladtime.ru. 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "German and Russian bloggers will create video guides of cities of FIFA World Cup 2018" (in Russian). Ростуризм. 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "GQ Travel Awards 2018" (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-11-04.