In 1988 he graduated from the biological faculty of the Leningrad State University with a degree in botany.

[2] He studied at the graduate school of the Botanical Institute of Komarov Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

[3][4] Since 1990 he worked as a correspondent for the information service of the TRK Petersburg, including the Fifth Wheel program.

[9] He was also the chief editor of the Directorate of Documentary Broadcasting of the Channel 5 and directed the information and analytical program Week in a Large Country.

[17] In December 2023, Lobkov said he was beaten at Patriarch Ponds in Moscow, in what he suggested was a homophobic attack, but he did not give further details.