Akulov Nikolay Ivanovich was born 01.01.1956 in Chita, Russia. In 1973, he entered the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute, Geological Prospecting Department. In 1978, he graduated from the institute and received the title of mining engineer - geologist, specializing in geology, prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits. From 1981 to 1984 he was a postgraduate student at the Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (laboratory of sedimentary formations). In 1985, he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Lithology and paleogeography of Upper Paleozoic deposits in the south of the Tunguska Basin.” In 2006, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Evolution of Middle Paleozoic sedimentation basins in the south of the Siberian Platform.” In 2008, he passed the competition for the position of leading researcher. He is a member of the council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations at the Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch RAS, a reviewer of numerous foreign and domestic journals, and since 2017, I has been a member of the editorial board of the journal “Earthquake Resistant Construction. Safety of structures."