Birth date and place – 17 September 1938, Taishet, the Irkutsk region

Qualification – Radiophysicist

Academic degree – D.Sc. (Phys.&Math.)

Corresponding Member of RAS since 1990. Full Member of RAS since 1997

[edit] Working experience

• 1956-1958 – an apprentice with electromechanic; electromechanic at the Taishet Car-Repair Mechanical Plant
• 1958-1963 – student at the Irkutsk State University (ISU)
• 1963-1964 – engineer at the ISU computer center
• 1964-1973 – Director of the Polar Magneto-Ionosphere Station, SibIZMIR, SB AS of the USSR, Norilsk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory
• 1973-1984 – Deputy Director for science, SibIZMIR, SB AS of the USSR
• 1984 - till present – Director of SibIZMIR, SB AS of the USSR (the Institute was renamed to ISTP SB RAS in 1992)

[edit] Government awards

• Order Of Service To The Fatherland, 4th Class
• Order «Sign of Honour»
• Medal «For valorous labour to mark Centenary of V.I. Lenin »

[edit] Scientific interests

• Atmosphere, ionosphere and polar upper atmosphere physics
• Radio wave propagation in ionospheric plasma
• Magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions
• Sun-Earth connection

[edit] Teaching activity

• Since 1997 – Head of the Space Physics Department at the Buryat State University (Ulan-Ude)
• Since 1998 – Rector of the International Baikal Youth School on Fundamental Physics (BSFP)

[edit] Publications

more than 250 publications in Russian and international editions

[edit] Social activity, membership in scientific societies, etc.

• 1992-2002 – Chairman of the Irkutsk Scientific Center
• 1998-2000 – Deputy Governor of the Irkutsk Region for science and science-and-technology policy
• Chairman of the RAS Scientific Council for physics of Sun-Earth connection («Sun-Earth» Council)
• Member of the Scientific Council bureau on radio wave propagation
• Co-director of the Joint Russian-Chinese Scientific Center on Space Weather (JSC-SW)
• Coordinator of the RAS Presidium Programme for Basic Research «Solar activity and physical processes in the Sun-Earth system»

[edit] Member of

• Highest Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation
• COSPAR and URSI working commissions
• International work-group for radar research
• American Geophysical Union

[edit] Under G.А. Zherebtsov’s guidance and direct participation

• The unique Russian high-potential incoherent-scatter radar with high information capabilities for exploring the Earth’s upper atmosphere was created. Research results obtained with this instrument are highly important for understanding the nature of physical processes in the upper ionosphere, their relation to geophysical processes in the Earth’s magnetosphere, etc.
• A new research field concerning investigations into the nature of global climate changes was formed at the Institute. The mechanism of the effect of heliospace and anthropogenic factors on the Earth climate system was examined. The solar variability effect was shown to be of great importance for the Earth’s thermal balance.
• A new line of research - Earth remote sensing - was organized. It allows important applied environmental-control tasks to be solved. Up-to-date techniques for forest fire detection have been developed and are now used by the branch RF ministry.
• Over the last 5 years, new digital ionosondes have come into operation, station of the Earth’s magnetic field measurements has been modernized and included into the international “Intermagnet” network, and construction of the AZT33-IK infrared telescope has been completed.
• Important results of the investigation into the polar ionosphere dynamical regime and structure, as well as of the experimental research into radio wave propagation at high latitudes were obtained. Basic research results related to the magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions allowed solution of the problem of the environmental effect (near-Earth space) on spacecraft operation.