Academicians

Qualifications
Doctor of Biological Sciences (since 1975), Professor.
Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Elected in 1985 on speciality Botany.

Membership of Scientific Societies and Councils
President of the Belarusian Botanical Society,
Member of the Russian Botanical Society,
Chairman of the Scientific Council on Biosphere Problems under the NASB Presidium,
Chairman of the International scientific committee for the problem "Biodiversity"

Editorial Board Membership
Editor-in-Chief of the Year-book "Botany",
Associate Editor-in-Chief of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Series of Biological Sciences),
Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Interdepartmental Bulletin Natural Resources (Prirodnye Resursy)

Current Position
The V.F.Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
27 Akademichnaya Street, Minsk BY-220072, Republic of Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 284-18-50. Fax: +375 (17) 284-18-53

Research areas
Botany (floristics, systematic of plants, geobotany, phytogeography), ecology.

Main Publications
1. Chorology of Belarus flora (1972).
2. Propagatiom condition and adaptation of plant species at the areal boundaries (1979).
3. Flora of the Belarusian Polesye (1983).
4. Anthropogenic change in the flora and vegetation of Belarus (1986).
5. The Willows of Belarus: Taxonomy, Phytocoenology, Resources (1985).
6. Rare or vanishing plant species of Belarus and Lithuania (1987).
7. Cariology of flora as the basis for citogenic monitoring (1992).

Literature
1. Victor Ivanovich Parfenov (To the 70th Anniversary of his Birthday). (In Russian)