26.11.1932 - born in Leningrad.
1955 - graduated from the Leningrad Forestry Academy.
1956 – started to work as assistant in the Botanical Museum.
1957-1981 – scientific secretary of the Botanical Museum.
1966 – defended the PhD (=Candidate of biological sciences) thesis “Wood parenchyma of the Conifers”. The scientific advisor was Prof. A.A. Yatsenko-Khmelevsky
1979 – published the monograph “Wood of Conifers: its morphological features and diagnostic significance”. Scientific degree of the DSc (=Doctor of biological         sciences) was awarded on the basis of this publication. 
1989-2004 – Head of the Botanical Museum
 

Fellowships:
1997-1999: “Structural features of the water-conducting tissue of woody plants of the Arctic Russia” (RFBR)
2001- grant of RFBR for publication of the monograph “Ecological and anatomical aspects of the coniferous wood variation in industrial regions of the Arctic Russia”
2000-2001- “Inventarisation and creation of the database for the fund collections and photoarchives of the Botanical Museum” (grant from the St.Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
2002-2004- “Use of the quantitative analyzes of anatomical characters of the secondary xylem for taxonomy, ecology, and phylogeny of Angiosperms” (RFBR).

 Publications: more than 100, including 5 books.

Current research:

- Formation of water-conducting tissues in the dicots from humid (Russian Far East, Sakhalin) and arid (Central Asia, eastern Caucasus) habitats.
- Comparative wood anatomy of Lonicera L. in relation to its habit diversity.

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