Boris Bim-Bad

Boris Mikhailovich Bim-Bad (Борис Михайлович Бим-Бад; 28 December 1941 – 1 March 2023) was a Soviet and Russian teacher and member of the Russian Academy of Education. Bim-Bad, who had an EdD, was a professor and member of the International Philosophical and Cosmological Society.

Biography
Bim-Bad was born in the family of Mikhail Isaakovich Bim-Bad (1901–1960). His uncle, Professor Max Isaakovich Bim-Bad (1914–1996), was the founder and first head of the Department of Economics of road facilities of the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute.

Bim-Bad was a graduate of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and the Rector of the Russian Open University, later transformed into the University of the Russian Academy of Education.

From 2001 to 2002, he was leading the game show I Know Everything! on channel TV-6. In his opinion, "atheism is a faith, but a savage".

Bim-Bad died on 1 March 2023, at the age of 81.