Prof. Dr. Valery N. Charushin, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Professor of the Ural Federal University Head of the Laboratory of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis, Address: S. Kovalevskay st. 22, Ekaterinburg, 620066, RUSSIA. Tel. +7-(343)-374-0223. Tel. +7-(343)-374-11-89. Fax: +7-(343)-374-11-89. Mobile tel.: +7-912-66-01-250 E-mail: charushin@ios.uran.ru; valery-charushin-562@yandex.ru Prof. Dr. Valery Charushin was born in 1951 (10.05.1951) in Sverdlovsk region. After graduating the Urals State Technical University (USTU) in 1973, he joined the Organic Chemistry Department of USTU as a post-graduate student. In 1976 he maintained the thesis “Reactions of azinium cations with aromatic nucleophiles” under the guidance of Prof. Oleg N. Chupakhin and got the degree «Candidate of Chemical Sciences» (similar to Ph. D). During the next 10 years he has been doing research studies at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Urals State Technical University (Ekaterinburg, Russia), and also in Agricultural University of Wageningen (the Netherlands) (1981-1982, 1988) where he worked under the guidance of Prof. H.C. van der Plas. In 1987 he maintained his doctoral dissertation “Reactions of azines with bifunctional nucleophiles”, got the degree “Doctor of Chemical Sciences” and the position of a Full Professor of Organic Chemistry in USTU. In 1997 he joined the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) as a Corresponding member of RAS,