Education: Voronezh State Academy of Forestry, PhD (biology), 2006 Voronezh State University, Department of Zoology, 1993
Experience: Former Vice Director on Science of Orlovskoye Polesie National Park in Russia, BSG/SSC/IUCN member , LEAD Fellow (C-10).
Member of group of specialists for wisent of the Thereological Society of Russian Academy of Science. Expert of Bison specialists group of Species Survival Commission of IUCN
Fields of expertise: Nature Protected Areas (reserves and parks); re-introduction of large ungulates; European bison restoration in Russia