Background
Borkin, Lev Yakovlevich was born on August 31, 1949 in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Borkin, Lev Yakovlevich was born on August 31, 1949 in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Diploma in zoology, St. Petersburg (Russia) University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology, Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1986.
Research fellow Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, 1986-1990, senior research fellow, since 1990. Board trustees European University at St. Petersburg. Learned secretary Professor Kirpichnikov award committee on evolutionary genetics, St. Petersburg, 1992-1997.
Member International Herpetol. Committee, 1989-1996.
Member cojn. science committee on education and science Russian State Duma, 1996, member council economics of higher and postgraduate education, since 2000. Member Canada Association Herpetologists (honorary), Asiatic Herpetol. Society, Nikolsky Herpetol.
Society (board member since 1989), Association Science Societies of Russia (vice president 1993-1999), St. Petersburg Association Scientists & Scholars (founder, co-chairman since 1989).