Member of the Khabarovsk Honorary Citizens' Council, a honorary professor, Distinguished culture worker of the Russian Federation, an author and local lore specialist.The holder of the Khabarovsk Region Government's honorary "for the services" sign, named after N.Muraviev-Amurski.

Vsevolod Petrovich Sisoev was born on November, 24 1911 in Kharkov. The childhood went by in Crimea. Young Vsevolod was drown in the books about the famous travelers and naturalists. He graduated from a Yalta school. In 1932 under Komsomol's order he came to Moscow and entered the Bauman's institution, but "dark, lacking fresh air study halls" was not his heart's choice and soon he transferred to All-Union Zootechnical Institution of Fur Industries, that he graduated in 1937 with a diploma of the game specialist and biologist. By the fall of 1938, having competed a work in Zeya expedition, Sisoyev had moved to USSR NKZ of the Far East, that was researching a territory of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM) construction.

In summer 1939 Sisoev was appointed as a head officer of Habarovsk hunting industry in Khabarovsk Regional Administration. He served on this position until the start of World War II. Vsevolod Petrovich became a head of the intendant service in 97th medical-sanitation battalion. Sisoev was awarded the medal "For the Victory over Japan".

A game specialist by profession and a wide-vision naturalist by heart, Sisoev initiated the works on acclimatization and settlement of hunting animals. Thanks to him, the huge territories of Far East from Ynui to Kolima became a free roaming area of Sable, Beaver, Mink, Musquash. In 1955 Vsevolod Petrovich was imposed to leave the Department of hunting industry. He became a lecturer, later a dean of the Geographic Faculty of the Khabarovsk Pedagogy Institution and started a more thorough research on the nature and problems of animals' habitat in the Far-East taiga. He wrote and published a several scientific works, popular essays and articles. Together with his students he examined a basin of the Amur, Mocrohon, Ulya and Olchen rivers. He went on untrodden trails of the North of the Region. The book "the nature and economies of Kur-Urmi" is an outcome of these expeditions.

A particular page of his life is the museum of local lore, directed by Sisoyev for over a decade. His museum work started in 1960 at the table of Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev - his childhood idol. Vsevolod Petrovich made a lot to make a museum section, dedicated to this famous traveler and researcher; there had been kept some stuff once belonged to Arseniev including his authentic report on 1927 expedition to the Soviet Harbour.

The museum keeps and demonstrates a lot of exponates, delivered there by Sisoev, including the rare scale bird "krohal" got by his own hands and a river shell with a huge pearl. During his years in the office, Sisoev gave the museum a second breath and in 1967 it was awarded as "The best museum of the USSR". year, Vsevolod Petrovich was admitted to the members of the USSR Authors Union. He wrote the following books:

• "The game in Khabarovsk Region";
• "The game in far east taiga";
• "Taiga";
• "Tiger-hunters";
• "The notes of far east naturalist (pathfinder)";
• "Amba";
• "In the northern jungles";
• "In far East taiga";
• "The Amur trappers";
• "The wonderful animals;"
• "Golden Rigma";
• "The Host of small Hungang";
• "Traveling in the museum".

And in the co-authorship with V.Klipel:

• "In the Bajhala mountains";
• "After the black sable";
• "Bright streams of Amguni".

Being an energetic and vitally active individual, Vsevolod Petrovich even today performs an important public work. He is a frequent guest of the school and university students, his literature work goes on.

For the past years he was a recipient of the following awards:

• distinguished title "Honorary Culture Worker of Russia";
• Diploma of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and the Board of USSR Authors' Union for the literature work;
• Khabarovsk Region's Duma for wilderness preservation. Order of the Patriotic War, second degree and medal "For the Victory over Japan";
• title "The honorary citizen of Khabarovsk";
• life-long Governer's stependcy for the contribution into the region culture growth;
• his biography is included into the British Encyclopedia in line with other planet's famous people biographies.

For his long-term contribution to the preservation of the Far East wilderness, a Zoological garden "Dalnevostochny" was named after Sisoev.