Prof. Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov, Ph.D., is the academician of the Russian Academy, St.-Petersburg branch of Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1956 he graduated from school No. 222 with in-depth study of the German language and entered Leningrad State University. Having received a higher education, in 1961 he entered graduate school at the Department of Genetics and Selection and began working at his alma mater. In 1967–1968, he completed an internship in the USA at Yale University and the University of Berkeley. He is also the Chairman of the Scientific Council on Genetics and Breeding, Vice-President of the Vavilov Society of Genetics and Breeders, and a Russian Federation Government Prize winner.