Place and date of birth: Saratov, Russia; March 6, 1932.

Place of work: Department of Management and Technology in Higher Professional Education.

Position: professor.

Sci. degrees: Professor since 1976.

Doctor of Engng Sci (appx. D. Sc.) in Cybernetics and Information Theory – from TSU, 1975. Cand. of Phys. - Math. Scis. (appx. Ph.D.) in Radiophysics – from TSU in 1959, after post-graduate course (1955-1958). Graduated from TSU in 1955 as physicist in radioelectronics.

Career description: Assistant and Assoc. Professor (1957-60). Head of Chair of comp.sci. and automation (1960-64). Head of Chair of statist. radiophys.and communic. theory (1964-65). Senior research worker in Siberian Phys.-Techn .Inst. of TSU (1965-70).

A UNESCO expert in Tanzania, at Dar-es-Salaam Univ. (1967-68). Head of Department of cybernetics at SPTI (1970-77).Head of Chair of theoretical cybernetics, TSU (1977-88). Dean of International Faculty of Public and Business Administration, TSU (1992-2012). Director of Int’l Projects Center of IFPBA (2012).

Recognitions and awards

• Two USSR medals - 1970, 1985.
• Order of Labor Red Banner – 1980.
• Honored Worker of Higher Education of Russia – 1985.
• Honored Scholar in Sci. and Techn. of Russia – 1990.
• Corresp. member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences – 1991.
• Full member of International Academy of Sciences of Higher School -1993.
• Member of Academic Board on Education in Management of Ministry of Education of Russia – 1992-2012.
• Gold medal “after acad. V.M.Glushkov” of Ukranian Academy of Sciences – 2012.