Graduated from Novosibirsk State University (Russia) in 1976. PhD in Geology (1980). Professor. Head of the Laboratory Petrology and Metallogeny of magmatic associations in the V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS (IGM), Head of the Department of Petrography and Geology of Ore Deposits at NSU GGD. Main research interests: mineralogical-petrographic, geochronological and geochemical investigations of layered ultramafic-mafic associations of Central and Southeast Asia.