Work status: chief scientific secretary of Kola science Center, RAS.

Academic degree, academic status: Ph.D. (Geol.&Min.), senior staff scientist, corr.-mem. of the RANS.

Biographical information: Born 1st January, 1940, Kiev, Ukraine; graduated from geological faculty of the Leningrad State University (1961), acquired a profession of geologist-surveyor-explorer; took a post-graduate course in the Kola Branch of the USSR AS and defended Ph.D thesis at the academic council of the Ural Branch of the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the USSR AS (1966 - 68).

Career: 1961-1984 - senior laboratory assistant, junior staff scientist, scientific secretary of the Institute, from 1985 - head of the laboratory of magmatism and magmatogene ore formation at the Geological Institute (GI) of the Kola branch of the USSR AS; from 1991 - chief scientific secretary of the KSC RAS; from 1999 - gives the course "Geotectonics with the fundamentals of geodynamics" at the ecological faculty of Apatity branch of the Murmansk State Technical University. Director of the Kola Seismologic center of the geophysical service of the RAS.

Field of research: the systematization of magmatic series formation in early Precambrian, reconstruction of endogenous magmatism regimes and ore-magmatic systems formation conditions, complex petrologic-geophysical study and modeling of the deep-seated structure, tectonic and metallogenic zoning of the Euro-Arctic region, geoecology.

Objects, areas of research and specialization:

    the Kola peninsula - working up of petrologic models of the intrusive charnockites formation at the Umba complex and granites-porphyries formation at the Litsko-Aragubski complex; systematization of Precambrian magmatic formations, making a 1: 500000 scale map of magmatic formations, typification of ore-magmatic systems of granitoid formations and its metallogenic potential control; geological and petrologic model building of ore-bearing intrusives Uov-oaiv (Mo, W), Western Keiv (Zr, Nb, Ta, rare earths), amazonite rand-pegmatites (Li, Y, Ta, Nb), uranium-bearing metasomatites and hydrotermalites; creation of geological maps with the scale 1: 500 000 of the North framing of Pechenga and the area between the rivers Western Litsa and Ura; the model building of deep-seated structure of the Euro-Arctic region, tectonic schemes making and metallogenic zoning of the Kola Peninsula. The results are presented in 230 works, out of which 170 ones were published, including collective works "Intrusive charnokites and granites-porphyries of the Kola peninsula" (Apatity, 1975), "Granitoid formations of the north-eastern part of Baltic shield" (L.: Science, 1978); "Precambrian magmatic formations of the north-eastern part of Baltic shield" (L.: Science, 1985); "The evolution of the earth's crust and endogenous metallogenic zoning of the north-eastern part of Baltic shield" (L.: Science, 1987); "Ore-magmatic system of Uovoivski granite - porphyry complex" (Apatity, 1987); "Mineralization and fluid regime of the zones of contact in alkaline granites intrusions" (Apatity, 1988); "Early Precambrian endogenous regimes and magmatism evolution" (St.Pb.: Science, 1991); "Precambrian tectonics of the north-eastern part of Baltic shield" (St.Pb.: Science, 1992); "Seismic and geological lithospheric model of the North Europe: the Barents Region" (Apatity, 1998).

   Awarded a decoration "For labour merits" (1986); decoration of Friendship (1999), medal of the RNAS in the name of P.L.Kapitsa (1999), a medal in the name of Kantemir and a prize of Honor of the Yassk University (Rumania).