Expert in the field of modern glaciers, paleoclimate, modeling of the components of small rivers water balance, modeling of sediments in the West Siberia mountains.
Conditions for the formation of snow-supply in mountains
Glaciers as indicators of climate fluctuation
Paleogeography
Education and qualification
1971 – Tomsk State University, Hydrological Department
1982 – Ph.D. dissertation "Estimation and analysis of water-ice balance in Central Altai (by the example of Katun mountain ridge)", Institute of Geography
Post-graduate students´ supervision
2005 – Dr. R.T. Sheremetov ("Regional peculiarities of ice cover in Ishim forest-steppe zone (by the example of the south of Tyumen´ oblast)
2006 – Dr.A.N. Nazarov ("Dynamics of nival-glacial complex in Aktru basin during the second half of Holocene (Central Altai, North-Chuisky mountain ridge)"
2007 – Master of Science I.A. Kolupaeva ("Formation of surface flow under climate fluctuation by the example of Altai Krai")
Employment History
1971-1976 – Laboratory of Field Investigations, Institute of Hydrometeorological Service, Novosibirsk
1976-1977 – Laboratory of Water Resources, World Data Center, Obninsk Since
1977-1989 – Problem Research Laboratory, Tomsk State University
1989 – senior researcher of IWEP SB RAS, Barnaul
Since 1989 - senior lecturer at Altai State University, Department of Physical Geography and GIS