Education
In 1946 Lopatin graduated from Kharkiv University. In 1950 he defended his candidate thesis in Odessa University.
In 1946 Lopatin graduated from Kharkiv University. In 1950 he defended his candidate thesis in Odessa University.
In 1953 he began his work in Tajik State University and carried out a research of entomofauna of Central Asia. There were organized about 10 research expeditions through all Republics of Central Asia, he discovered dozens new species of insects. Lopatin defended DPhil in 1965 and was appointed to the rank of Professor. in 1977 his monograph "Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) of Central Asia and Kazakhstan" was published. It was translated into english in 1984. In 1980 text-book "Fundamental Zoogeography" was published. In 1984 he was chosen a honorable academician of Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences.