Aleksandr Druz

Aleksander was educated at a Leningrad school specialising in mathematics and physics, now known as the Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239.

In 1975, he left the Leningrad College of Industrial Education, and in 1980 graduated from Leningrad Institute of Engineers of Railway Transportation, now named St. Petersburg State Transport University (see also ...#Graduates), specialising in the field of "electronic computing machines" (EVM).

[citation needed] He holds a record for the longest uninterrupted participation in the TV version of What?

[citation needed] As of 2014, Drouz is the three times WWW World Cup Champion.

team «Transsfera» (sporting version of the game), which he led to victory at the 1st World cup (2002).

Drouz was champion of the TV show Brain Ring (a gameshow closely related in principle as well as personnel to What?

During the game, the score on the scoreboard exceeded 100,000 even before the end of the 3rd round, and the host of the program Petr Kuleshov had to glue a piece of paper with on it with a marker number "+100000", and the score on the scoreboard began to be kept from scratch, since the creators of the program did not expect that someone would be able to collect a six-figure sum.

[citation needed] Drouz appeared on the Russian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, known as Kto khochet stat' millionerom?

[citation needed] On 5 April 2008, Aleksandr Drouz became one of the Russian torchbearers of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay.

[6] In 2015, he participated in the McHappy Day charity event designed to raise money for the treatment of sick children.

[9][better source needed] In 2018, he took part in the project of the Warm House charity fund, which helps families in crisis situations.