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Gninenko Yury Ivanovich

Gninenko Yury Ivanovich, born 19 November, 1945, in the city of Leningrad (06 Sept., 1991 Leningrad renaimed to Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union (since 1992 – Russia). Graduated from the Ural Institute of Forest Engineering (at the present time – Ural State Forest Engineering University), Faculty of Forestry (at the present time – Institute of Forest and Nature Management), with a specialty in Forestry, qualification Engineer of Forestry, in the city of Sverdlovsk (04 Sept., 1991 the city of Sverdlovsk renaimed to Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union (1968). Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD) in Entomology (1978). PhD thesis: «Biologiya Letne-Osenney Gruppy Cheshuekrylykh (Macrolepidoptera) Vrediteley Berezy v Zaural'e» (Biology of the Summer-Autumn Group of Lepidoptera (Macrolepidoptera) Pests of Birch in the Trans-Urals), Krasnoyarsk, V. N. Sukachev Inst. For., USSR Acad. Sci., Sib. Br. (at the present time – V. N. Sukachev Inst. For., Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br., Fed. Res. Center Krasnoyarsk Sci. Center, Rus. Acad. Sci., Sib. Br.), 1978 (in Russian). Head for the Laboratory of Forest Protection Against Invasive and Quarantine Organisms, Department for Forest Protection, All-Rus. Res. Inst. Silviculture and Mechanization of Forestry, in the city of Pushkino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. Associate Editor for a peer-reviewed journal «Lesokozyaystvennaya informatsiya» (For. Inform.), Responsible Secretary for the East Palearctic Regional Section of the International Organization for Biological Control. Scientific interests in protecting forests from pest organisms. Author and co-author of more than 500 scientific publications, incl. 5 books, as well as numerous recommendations and manuals on forest protection, 6 patents for an invention.