Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgia
Citizenship: Citizen of the Republic of Georgia (Personal Code 01024004335, Passport No 0623722)
Marital Status: Married, one daughter (Lili, 1984) and one son (Georgi, 1988).
Education:
1958-1968 - Secondary school, Tbilisi, Georgia; Certificate.
1968-1973 - Georgian zoo-veterinary educational-scientific Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia;
Specialty - zoologist, veterinarian; Diploma.
1978-1981 - scientific training in the All-Union Nature Conservation Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. Specialization - Ornithology and Conservation of Birds; Certificate.
1997 - scientific training in the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration and in the Israel Ornithology Center, Israel. Specialty � Scientific and Educational Aspects of Migrating Bird Study and Conservations; Certificate.
Employment (in Georgia):
1973-1993 - researcher, Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia;
Since 1994 � Consultant in Ornithology, Institute of Zoology, Georgian Academy of Sciences - Tbilisi, Georgia;
1989-1991 - scientific consultant and Director Deputy on Science of Tbilisi ZOO � Tbilisi, Georgia;
1997-1999 - Director of the ornithological group for study of avifauna and bird conservation problems along oil pipeline route at the territory of Georgia - Project of the Georgian Pipeline Company - Tbilisi, Georgia;
2001-2002 - expert in Ornithology on the study of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Major Export Pipeline Project Route � Georgian International Oil Company � Tbilisi, Georgia.
Professional associations:
A. Ornithological studies
From 1973 up to present time a long-term study of distribution, ecology, population trends, migrations, conservation and other problems of the all species of birds of Caucasus, mainly of Georgia, have been carried out.
B. Wildlife protection:
Since 1973 till today actively participate in activities of various profile in wildlife protection. Member of different Societies on Nature (Fauna, Birds) Conservation, Working Groups, Action Plans for the threatened bird species, etc: international, national, regional. Since 1997 - Chairman of the Bird Conservation Union of Georgia.
C. Environmental education:
In 1980�s � 1990�s I gave original lectures in several Georgian Universities and Colleges (course of Ornithology in Sukhumi State University; Zoogeography, Nature conservation, Fauna of Georgia in Tbilisi Pedagogical University; Wildlife of Georgia in Tbilisi State University, etc.).
D. ZOO's activity
Paralelly with work in Institute of Zoology in 1989-1991 worked in Tbilisi Zoo, since the beginning by consultant, and in 1990-1991 by Director Deputy on Science.
Publications: Totally above 140 papers in ornithology, ecology, mammology, herpethology, nature conservation and history of falconry are published (mainly in Russian, also in English, German, Spain and Georgian).
Languages: mother tongue - Georgian and Russian; English - understand (fair), read (fair), speak (satisfactorily); Estonian - understand, read and speak (fair).
