Though my father was a great dog lover and kept a bitch Elsa looking like a German Shepherd at home, I was more interested in wild animals in my boyhood days. I became friends with them in the society of young biologists of the Moscow Zoo, in the pet’s corner of my school, station of young naturalists in Neskuchnyi sad (it was named Pioneer kolkhoz “Svetlyi put”) and in biological club of the museum after Charles Darwin under the leadership of a famous teacher P. Smolin. Now and then my home was inhabited by a fox, a wolf, a monkey, a bear and an erne, not to mention other, simpler animals. .

I always wished to set up a true club free of bureaucratism, the club were Doberman lovers could feel at home, meet with their friends, handle important dog matters, share news, discuss the results of dog shows and trials and get an advice on upbringing and training of a puppy. We got a chance only when Mikhail S. Gorbachev came into power. Perestroika brought us new opportunities. It has cancelled meaningful constrains that prevented to establish new clubs.

In 1996 Russia entered the FCI that meant reviving of Russian breeders’ institution. More or less qualified dog-fanciers got an opportunity to register their own kennels and act independently, without clubs’ intermediacy. The club "Zoosfera" has self-dissolved.