Doctor of biology, director of Moscow Centre “Videoecology” Vasiliy A.Filin graduated from biologic department of Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov in 1962 and in 1965 from post graduated course in Academy of Medical Sciences of USSR.

V.A.Filin is a founder of new scientific direction that is a videoecology. He was the first who considered visual environment to be an ecological factor and showed mistakes in creation of the visual environment of a city, industrial premises and living accommodations. On the basis of the videoecology V.A.Filin worked out recommendations for creation of comfortable visual environment in places of human habitat.

V.A.Filin actively participates in Russian ecological movement, regularly appears on TV and radio, on conferences in Russia and abroad.