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Professional background

Born in 1961 in Minsk (Belorussia, Former Soviet Union).

Education

1968-1972	Elementary School no. 50 (Minsk, Belorussia, Former Soviet Union)
1972-1976	Junior High School no. 271 (Moscow, Russia)
1976-1978	Mathematical High School no. 1140 (Moscow, Russia)
1978-1983	Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, mathematics major
1983-1986	Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Chair of General Topology and Geometry, post-graduate student

Received Master's Degree in mathematics (honours: cum laude) from Moscow State Univesrity (Moscow, Russia) in 1983, under supervision of Professor Alexander V. Arhangel'skii.

Received Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics [geometry and topology] from Moscow State Univesrity (Moscow, Russia) in 1987, under supervision of Professor Alexander V. Arhangel'skii.

Title of Ph. D. Thesis: Cardinal invariants and topological structure of topological fields and groups.

1986-1991	Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Research Fellow and Assistant Professor
1991-1992	Miami University (Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A.), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor
1992-1993	University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Department of Mathematics, Visiting Associate Professor
1993-2001	Ehime University (Matsuyama, Japan), Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Associate Professor
2001-....	Ehime University (Matsuyama, Japan), Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Professor

1997-....	Editor of the journal Topology Proceedings published jointly by Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama, U.S.A.) and Nipissing University (North Bay, Ontario, Canada).
1995-2000	One of the three Editors-in-Chief of the WWW (World Wide Web) site Topology Atlas.

Topological algebra, Set-theoretic topology, Set Theory.