Personal details. Ukrainian, date of birth 1954, male.
	Qualifications. Doctor of Biological Science.
	Current position. Deputy Director, Department of Mycology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
	Expertise. Botany, mycology; specialist in powdery mildews; considerable expertise in photography; author or co-author of more then 150 publications (including 12 monographs). Participant in Darwin Initiative projects Fungi of Ukraine (1994-1996, author of powdery mildew entries in major checklist produced from that project), Biodiversity Information in the former Soviet Union (1999-2002) and Recovering Ukraine's Lost Steppe (2002-2005). Participant in INTAS Infrastructure Action Biodiversity Information in the former Soviet Union (1999-2002). Member of Organizing Committee of Ukraine's first National Conference for Conservation of Biodiversity, Kaniv, 1997. Ukraine co-ordinator for UK FCO Environment Protection Fund project Saving Ukraine's Last Steppe Land. Member of Organizing Committee of XIV Congress of European Mycologists. Founder Member of the European Mycological Association.
	Languages. Ukrainian, Russian, German, English (basic).
	Expeditions & fieldwork. Ukrainian Co-ordinator of Royal Geographical Society's first Ralph Brown Expedition (1998); member and organizer of numerous expeditions in Ukraine, Russian far east, northern Russia, Altai and Caucasus mountains; extensive experience of canoe expeditions on rivers and lakes in Ukraine.