I&was born on June 16th 1963 in Omsk and lived there until sixteen. From the very time I remember myself I was obset with insects which, unfortunately, were too scarce in this large industrial city. In addition to a regular school I finished a four year children art school and, besides, took a camera when I was twelwe and since that time have made an immence number of black-and-white pictures of insects, mostly butterflies, until in 1988 I changed my mind to colour transparencies. Alas, only as late as in 1994 a good quality film became available in Siberia while this time USSR had been split and some great places turned to be very hard to visit to. In 1979 I moved to Novosbirsk Akademgorodok [Novosibirsk Academy Town] where studied in a physics and mathematics school for one year and then entered Novosibirsk State University. Akademgorodok is a very nice town about 30 km of Novosibirsk, residing among little disturbed forest-steppe birch and asp woods and meadows. Since that time my life have altered principally. Just after the first course I started to participate on scientific expeditions in various wild places of Siberia and still proseed to do so every summer during my sabbathical leaves. I have graduated from the university in 1985 and since that time have been working in the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences. My professional interests lie in the field of plant genetics, so my Ph.D. Theses defended in 1995 is called "Inheritance and Properties of a Histone H1 Fraction Specific to Young Tissues of the Garden Pea (Pisum sativum L.)". But in parallel I study dragonfly and, to some extent, butterfly fauna of the Asian part of the former USSR and have a number of publications on these subjects as well. I travel much overthere participating in zoological and floristic expeditions (but have never been abroad) and take pictures of everything in the Nature which I considered worth to be photographed. I am not married, my interests except for subjects concerning Nature, expand to history and music.

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