Lobkov was born in the city of
Sestroretsk (Sestroretsk District of Leningrad; now in the
Kurortny District of St. Petersburg). In 1988, he graduated from the biological faculty of the
Leningrad State University with a degree in botany. He studied at the graduate school of the Botanical Institute of Komarov Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Internship in Holland, but he did not defend the thesis. Since 1990, Lobkov worked as a correspondent for the information service of the TRK Petersburg, including the Fifth Wheel program. From 1995 to 2004, he was a correspondent for the NTV information service. He did subjects for the information programs
Segodnya,
Itogi, and
Country and World. From 1995 to 1997, together with
Yevgeny Kiselyov and
Leonid Parfyonov, he led the program
Hero of the Day. Laureate of
TEFI-1998 as the best reporter. Since August 2006 the author of a number of documentary projects at Petersburg – Channel 5. 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. In 2008, Lobkov returned to NTV, where he was dismissed on 16 January 2012, before the end of the contract. Since February 2012, Lobkov works on the TV Rain channel. In February 2013 he recorded a video message for the project
Be Stronger, directed against
homophobia. He was the host of the program
We Ride at Home on
Rain, paired with
Sasha Filipenko. Now he is one of the leading final news and the weekly program
The Burden of News. ==Personal life==