2nd Edition of Agriculture, Forestry, and Horticulture World Conference 2026

Biography

He graduated in 1957 from the Technical School of Southern Subtropical Crops in Yalta (Crimea) with a specialization in tobacco growing, viticulture, and winemaking, and in 1962 from the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev as an agronomist in plant protection; he earned the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences in 1967, Doctor of Biological Sciences in 1988, and was awarded the academic title of Professor of Plant Protection in 1995. In 2017, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he received the honorary title “Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.” Since 1964, he has been working at the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Grain and Products of Its Processing (VNIIZ), a branch of the V.M. Gorbatov Federal Research Center for Food Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. His main scientific interests focus on the preservation and protection of grain and processed grain products, and he has developed numerous projects in pest protection, including studies on habitat, biology, behavior, population forecasting, and harmfulness of insects and mites, as well as methods for detecting grain infestation, pheromone technologies, controlled atmospheres, fumigation, microwave plasma, insecticides, ozone technologies, disinfestation equipment, radiation disinfestation, and uric acid indicators. He is the author of more than 430 scientific publications, 25 books, 33 inventions, over 190 scientific reports, and multiple regulatory and instructional documents on grain pest control. Based on his research, an integrated system for the protection of grain and grain products has been established and is widely used in Russia, saving millions of tons of grain from pest infestation annually; he is an active participant in numerous national and international conferences and has received multiple government and departmental awards.