1976–1981: Ural State University, Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Ekaterinburg, Russia 1992: Ph.D, Institute of Ecology of Plants and Animals, Russian Science Academy, Ekaterinburg 2002: DSC, Russian Research Institute for Integrated Water Management and Protection, Ekaterinburg 2004 – up to date: Professor of Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Ural State University (now – Department of Experimental Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia) Research Interests: (a) Adaptive morphophysiological reactions of aquatic and terrestrial plants, including horticultural crops to different kind of pollutants (heavy metals, phenolic compounds, urea); (b) Antioxidant status of plants as non-specific tool of their stability; (c) Phytoremediation potential of aquatic and terrestrial plants; (d) Horticultural plants-microbial interactions.