Place of birth village Ilyinschina, Darovskoy region, Kirovskaya oblast ,Russia

Education: Higher education, graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Geological Exploring Department with honors in 1982 and was awarded a qualification “Mining engineer-geologist”.

Dissertations:

• for the degree of candidate of geological-mineralogical sciences "Prospects of uranium-bearing zone of structural and stratigraphic unconformity of Sayan" defended March 16, 1989 in the Council of  Moscow Geological Institute, Moscow.
• for the degree of doctor of geological-mineralogical sciences "Geochemistry of trace elements in coals of Central Siberia", defended  June 29, 2005 in the Council of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk.

Career path

1977-1982 - student of the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute

1982-1983 - assistant of Mineral deposits and exploration of ores of rare and radioactive elements Department, geological prospecting faculty of Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (TPI)

1983-1986 - Post-graduate( TPI)

1986-1991 - assistant of the Department of Minerals and Geochemistry of rare elements (TPI)

1991-2001 - senior researcher, assistant professor at the Department of Geoecology and Geochemistry (TPU)

2001-2003 - doctoral at TPU

2004-2005 - assistant professor at the Department of Geoecology and Geochemistry of  Oil and Gas  Institute (TPU)

Since 2006 - professor of Geoecology and Geochemistry Department