Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
A student of Andrey Martynov, he was a prolific taxonomist who described numerous new taxa, including fossil Diptera, and published important syntheses on fossil insects. His work is being extensively revised by the current generation of Russian paleoentomologists. Number. and Rasnitsyn, A.P.
He attained the position of head of the Laboratory of Arthropods, Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (now Russian Academy of Sciences) in Moscow. In B.B. Rohdendorf (editor), Fundamentals of Paleontology, volunteer
