PhD, DSc (Biology), Leading Research Fellow
Member of the Scientific Council of the Zoological Institute (2000-2010). Member of the Scientific Council of the Biological faculty of the Petersburg University for defending Doctoral theses (from 1989).
Chief Curator of the fund collections of the Zoological Institute (1993-2007).The head of the Department of Ornithology since 1978.
The main field of scientific activities
is systematics, life history and zoogeography of birds, mainly Palearctic Passerines.
Phone: (812) 328-13-11 (call on 320 or 274) (work)
E-mail: otus@zin.ru