Faizulin Alexander Ildusovich holds a PhD in biological sciences. He was born on June 8, 1977 in Togliatti. In 1999, he graduated from Samara State University. In 2004, he completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include fauna, ecology and communities of amphibians, adaptogenesis, and the diversity and consequences of the introduction of alien organisms. Since 2004, he has been working at the Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Tolyatti), a branch of the Samara Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia). In 2004, he defended his dissertation "Ecological and faunal analysis ofamphibians of the Middle Volga region and problems of their protection" and received his PhD in Biology. He has 25 years of research experience and is the author and co-author of 255 scientific papers, including five monographs. He is currently a Member of the Herpetological Society. A.M. Nikolsky at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia).