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Born 1 January 1950 in Ryazanskaya district, Russia

1967-1972: Undergraduate: M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. Title of Graduation Thesis: "Nonintegrability of the equations of motion of a heavy rigid body about a fixed point".

1972-1973: Postgraduate: M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics.

1974: Ph.D. (candidate of science in physics and mathematics). Thesis title: "Qualitative analysis of motion of a rigid body in integrable cases", M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

1978: Doctor in physics and mathematics. Thesis title: "On the problems of qualitative analysis in the dynamics of a rigid body", M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Positions held:

1974-1983: Assistant, associate professor, leading scientific researcher at the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics.

since 1983: Professor at the Chair of Theoretical Mechanics, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

1980-1987: Deputy dean for science and research at Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

1989-1998: Vice-rector at the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

1997-2001: Deputy Minister of the Education of the Russian Federation .

since 2001: Vice-President of Russian Academy of Science .

since 2002: Head of the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Random Processes at the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

since 2003: Head of the Department of Mechanics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

since 2004: Director of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences.

since 2005: Head of the Department of Differential Equations at the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Member of the Commission under the Russian Federation President on awarding State Prizes of the Russian Federation.

Founder and editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal "Regular and Chaotic Dynamics", editor-in-chief of "Izvestiya RAN, Seriya Matematicheskaya" (Izvestiya: Mathematics), deputy editor-in-chief of "Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 1. Matematika. Mekhanika", member of editorial boards of "Matematicheskie Zametki" (Mathematical Notes) and "Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics". Research supervision of 29 candidates of science and 5 doctors of sciences (one of them, Dmitry V. Treschev, is now the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Memberships:

1995: Member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

1995: Full Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

1997: Corresponding Member of the Division of Machine Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences

2000: Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2003: Foreign member of the Serbian Learned Society

Honors and awards:

1973: Lenin Komsomol Prize (the major prize for young scientists in USSR)

1986: M.V. Lomonosov 1st Degree Prize (the major prize awarded by M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)

1988: S. A. Chaplygin prize, Russian Academy of Sciences

1994: State Prize of the Russian Federation

1995: Peter The First Golden Medal of the International Academy of Environmental and Human Society Sciences

1996: The Breast Badge "For Distinguished Services" of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

1999: Order of Honor

2000: S.V. Kovalevskaya prize, Russian Academy of Sciences

2005: Order of Service to the Fatherland IV class

2007: L.Euler Gold Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences