Andrey P. Anisimov was born in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) on November 18, 1958. In 1975 in Saratov (Russia) he graduated from the 42nd secondary school with extensive Englisg learning and entered the medical faculty of the Saratov Medical Institute, from which he graduated with honors in 1981. In 1981 he was employed at the All-Union Research Institute of Applied Microbiology (Obolensk, Russia) , where he consistently held the positions of a senior laboratory assistant, graduate student, junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, head of department, leading researcher and defended his Ph.D. thesis. From 1993 to 2000 he worked as a senior researcher at the Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute "Microbe", then returned to Obolensk, where he defended his Sc.D. thesis and is currently working as a Deputy Director for Science..A.P. Anisimov's scientific research is devoted to the molecular bacteriology of plague. http://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=aNXlR9UAAAAJ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrey_Anisimov/?ev=hdr_xprf http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5499-7999 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?