Candidate of Biological Sciences, Director of MAU "Yaroslavl Zoo", Yaroslavl, Russian Federation.

Specialty: biologist, vertebrate zoologist.

Research interests: ecology, ethology of large predators, animal and human diseases, biomedicine.

Social activity:

• Deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma
• member of the Council of the Yaroslavl regional branch of the All-Russian public organization "Assembly of the Peoples of Russia"
• member of the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Far North, the Far East and the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Awards:

• for many years of conscientious work in 2008 he was awarded a certificate of honor from the mayor's office of the city of Yaroslavl 
• for preparations for the 1000th anniversary of Yaroslavl in 2010 was awarded a jubilee badge in 2011
• for his great contribution to the development of the culture of the city of Yaroslavl, he was awarded the honorary sign of the city of Yaroslavl, II degree in 2011
• for merits in the socio-economic and cultural development of the Yaroslavl region, he was awarded a diploma of the Governor of the Yaroslavl region was awarded the Distinguished Service Badge "For services to the city of Yaroslavl" 
• awarded with a diploma of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation in 2018
• for his great contribution to the development of culture, many years of fruitful work, he was awarded the Gratitude of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation 
• in 2021 for many years of conscientious work, high professionalism and contribution to the development of culture in the Yaroslavl region, he was awarded the gratitude of the Government of the Yaroslavl region 
• in 2022 he was awarded by the President of the Russian Federation with the medal "For Works in Culture and Art"