Main Researcher
DSc (Geological and Mineralogical Sciences)

Geophysical fields laboratory
Marine Geology

36, Nakhimovskiy prospect, Moscow, 117997, Russia
Phone: +7(499)124-59-65

Geophysicist, doctor of geological-mineralogical Sciences (1982), Professor (1991), academician of RANS (1993), Honored scientist of the Russian Federation (2005), from 1985 to 2005 – head of the Laboratory of geomagnetic research, since 2005 main researcher of the Laboratory of geophysical fields

He is a resident of blockade Leningrad. In 1957 he graduated from the Geophysical faculty of the Leningrad mining Institute.

From 1957 to 1972 he worked in the Leningrad Research Institute of Arctic Geology, Ministry of Geology of the USSR. He was engaged in the geophysical search of copper-nickel ores in the northwestern part of the Siberian platform. He was one of the discoverers of the Igarsky copper-ore field (1962).

Since 1962 he took part in the first geophysical expeditions in the Atlantic, Baltic, White and Black seas on the ships of military hydrography. He is one of the authors of a new method of measuring electric fields of the ocean (1967).

In 1967 together with V.D.Fedorov and A.N.Paramonov he opened the bioelectric effect of phytoplankton in the sea. In 1968 he defended in Moscow state University PhD thesis on "the Use of magnetometry and electrometry for the study the bottom of the ocean."

From 1969 to 1972 he headed the Laboratory of marine geophysics at the Research Institute of Arctic Geology.

In 1972 he moved to Moscow and transferred to work at the Institute of Oceanology. From 1985 to 2005 he headed the Laboratory of geomagnetic research.

He participated in over 20 oceanographic expeditions in various regions of the oceans on ships of the RAS and military hydrography.

He repeatedly submerged in the underwater manned submersibles. He was at the North pole and in Antarctica.

In 1982 he defended his doctoral thesis on "the Structure of the oceanic lithosphere and the formation of seamounts".

On the basis of joint analysis of the paleomagnetic, geologic, and paleoclimatic data, in conjunction with L.P.Zonenshain, he made a series of maps – paleogeodynamic reconstructions of the continents and oceans in the Phanerozoic (1976).

He suggested and developed an original method for calculating the power of the oceanic lithosphere based on linear magnetic anomalies in combination with measurements of gravity field and the density of the heat flux and he calculated the first power map of the lithosphere of the World ocean (1977).

He also proposed a new model for the formation of volcanic seamounts and islands in the ocean (1978), in which the height of paleovolcano related to the capacity of the carrier lithosphere.

Together with O.G.Sorokhtin he proposed a new hypothesis for the formation of guyots in the late Cretaceous. He was one of the founders of the paleomagnetic modeling of seamounts and the use of these data to calculate the kinematics of the plates.

He developed a new petromagnetic model of the oceanic lithosphere (1987). He also proposed an original petromagnetic model of the structure of the zones of the median ridges (1997).

In the last five years he is successfully developing a new field – the study of fine spatial structure of the anomalous magnetic field in the water to solve problems of geology and ecology.

He does a great teaching job at the International University in Dubna and M.V.Lomonosov Moscow state University. Under his leadership 6 candidates of Sciences defended their dissertations.

He repeatedly travelled at the invitation of the lectures to the universities of Germany, USA, Belgium and Israel. For many years, regularly takes part in presentations at leading international congresses and symposia.

He has published more than 250 scientific works, including more than 20 monographs, devoted to the tectonics and geophysics of the ocean floor.

For scientific merit he was repeatedly awarded diplomas of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was awarded "the Knight of science", and in 2004 – the cross "For merit" of the RANS, in 2003 - the medal "the Polar star". In 1999 by decision of the RAS the minor planet No. 5988 was named in his honour. His name is also given to a mountain pass on the Eastern Sayan. He was awarded many medals.

He is also widely known as a poet, songwriter and writer. He is the author of 42 books of poetry, songs and prose memoir and a few dozen CDs with art songs. He is one of the founders of the genre of art song.

He is a member of the Union of writers of Russia (1972) and the International Pen club (1998). He is the Laureate of Tsarskoye Selo artistic award (1998, 2012) and the national public award in the field of art song "Gratitude" (2005). The first laureate of the State prize named after Bulat Okudzhava (1999).