Professor, Deputy-director of the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences head of the Working Group of the Russian Federation’s International Arctic Science Committee, the author and co-author of about 700 scientific works, including 12 monographs, Arctic explorer, one of the creators of the Strategic Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Russian Arctic (2008).
One of the most prominent environmental experts who deal with the problem of the Arctic shelf.
