Career
Dolnik was born in Sverdlovsk in 1938. In 1960, he graduated from Leningrad State University. Foreign thirty years, he was the chief of the ornithological station "Rybachy" (literally "Fishers"" - after the village where it was situated).
He gained a Candidate of Science degree in 1967, and the Doctor of Science in 1976.
He became a professor in 1983. Haemoproteus dolniki is named after him.
He died on 4 November 2013.
