I am a geographer-cartographer with Russian language background. After graduation from University in 1975, I have been employed for 13 years as a Research Fellow at The Marine Geomorphology Laboratory of The Geography Department of Moscow State University. I have participated there on major mapping and research projects, such as 'Geomorphological Remote sensing and aerial mapping of the coastal areas', 'Holocene pluvial and arid climates of Arid Eurasia', and 'The World Map of Recent Marine Sediments and their Distribution Areas'. I have published six articles and participated in few research reports.

'The World Map of Recent Marine Sediments' project was fully accomplished by myself. Based on Western and Russian maps published in the seventies, I have compiled a World Map of Recent Marine Sediments on an equal area Werner-Murevskis projection. An electronic planimeter was then used to calculate the areas of distribution of different types of recent marine sediments. The figures obtained substantially improve the data of that kind given by Swerdrup, Johnson and Fleming (1942). An article on the project results was published in Russian "Oceanology" and in USA "Sciences". In 1994 'The World Map of Recent Marine Sediments' was computerised at ACASIAN and now available in digital format.

Since 1994 I have joint ACASIAN team in order to work on The Spatial Information Infrastructure for Russian and Central Euro-Asian Studies in Australia project (SIIRCEASA).