Background
Smirnov, Nikolai Nikolaevich was born on January 7, 1928 in Moscow. Son of Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov and Zinoviya Mikhailovna (Kopylova) Smirnova.
Smirnov, Nikolai Nikolaevich was born on January 7, 1928 in Moscow. Son of Nikolai Nikolaevich Smirnov and Zinoviya Mikhailovna (Kopylova) Smirnova.
Graduate, Moscow Technology Institute Fisheries, 1950. Graduate, Moscow State Linguistic Institute, 1955. Doctor of Science in Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, 1969.
Postgraduate fellow, assistant professor Moscow Technology Institute Fisheries, 1950-1959. Senior scientist Institute Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, 1959-1966, Pondfishculture Institute, Rybnoe, Russia, 1966-1968, Institute Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, since 1968. Member initial committee ecological monitoring, Stockholm, 1971.
Executive secretary National Committee International Biological Program, 1968-1979. Expert on ecology SIPRI, Stockholm, 1977-1978.
Married Lidiya Ivanovna Sheptalina, May 22, 1954 (deceased 1976). 1 child, Nikolai; Married Larisa Andreevna Lokhanina, June 2, 1978. 1 child, Aleksei.