Full member of the Yakut Academy of Sciences, DrSc. Leading researcher in V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy (Yakutsk, Russia). Honored geologist of the Russian Federation, Honorary subsurface explorer, deposit discoverer. Expert in platform magmatism minerageny (carbonatites, kimberlites, traps). Author of over 320 papers including 9 monographs, member of “Ores and Metals”, “Natural Resources of Arctic and Subarctic Regions”, “University News. Geology and Prospecting” editorial Boards, member of “Rare Earths” journal expert board, expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
For many years he headed the Research Geological Enterprise of ALROSA (PJSC).