Educational Background: 1958-1968 High School, Vichuga, Ivanovo Region, Russia 1968-1974 M.S., Ivanovo State Medical Institute (IMSI), Ivanovo, Russia. Undergraduate training: 1969-1974 Research Student, Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Ivanovo State Medical Institute, Russia. Postgraduate training: 1974-1977 Postgraduate Student, Department of Topographical Anatomy and Operative Surgery, Ivanovo State Medical Institute, Ivanovo, Russia. 1983 Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Cellular Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis. National Cardiological Research Center, Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. 1988-1991 Dean, Therapeutic Faculty, Ivanovo medical University, Ivanovo, Russia 1994-1999 Chief of the Morphological Unit, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Consorzio "MARIO NEGRI SUD", Centro di Recerche Farmacologiche e Biomediche, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy. 1999-2010 Head of Unit of Intracellular Traffic, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Consorzio "MARIO NEGRI SUD", Centro di Recerche Farmacologiche e Biomediche, S. Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy. 2010-present Head of Laboratory of electron microscopy. The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology. Milan. Italy