[1] Oleg Panteleyev was born on 21 July 1952, in the village of Zhitnikovskoye, in the Chashinsky district of the Kurgan Oblast.

From 1976 to 1979, he was an instructor, and in 1979 to 1981, he was the head of the department of workers and rural youth of the Kurgan regional committee of the Komsomol.

On 26 April 2001, Panteleyev was a member of the Federation Council - a representative from the executive body of state power of the Kurgan region.

He was a Deputy Chairman, a member of the Committee on CIS Affairs, the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Rules and Organization of Parliamentary Activities, and a member of the European Parliament, in which case he took part in the work of the Federation Council delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the EurAsEC Assembly.

He was a member of the parliamentary commission to investigate the reasons and circumstances of the terrorist act in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004.

In March 2007, he headed the joint commission on cooperation between the Federation Council and the Parliament of Tajikistan.

He was the president of the Union of Naturalist Photographers, one of the organizers and authors of the traditional photo exhibition of the Golden Turtle international competition, the all-Russian nature festivals “Primordial Russia”, “The Most Beautiful Country”, “Wildlife”.

A tripod with a camera is installed in the immediate habitat of animals, and the photographer himself equips an observation point at a considerable distance.

With the help of a radio signal, the image from the moving camera is transmitted to a remote monitor, the photographer takes a picture at the desired angle and evaluates its quality on the display.