• Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1971), Professor (1974),
• Real Member (Academician) of Russian Academy of Sciences (1991),
• Real Member (Academician) of Academy of Sciences of Republic of Bashkortostan (1991).
• Real Member of Central Asia Academy (Uzbekistan) (1993).
• Real Member of International Eastern Petroleum Academy (Azerbaijan) (1993).
• Real Member of Academy of Natural Sciences of Russian Federation (1995).
• Member of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (2006). 
• Director of P.P. Shirsov Institute of Oceanology (2006 - present)

Main Scientific Works

Patents:

• Devise for Impulse Stamping of Sheet Iron, No 584457, (1972).
• Shock Piston Plant, No 811981, (1980).
• Hydrodynamic Shock Pipe, No 883686, (1980).
• Method of Producing Coke from of Heavy Carbon-Hydrogen Raw Material, No 808521, (1980).
• Safety Device, No 866319, (1981).
• Safety Device for Pipe-Lines, No 922400, (1981).
• Method of Measurement of Liquid Characteristics, No 996931, (1982).
• Method of Controlling Gas-Vapor Content in Liquid, No 1079048, (1984).
• Powder Fire-Extinguisher, No 115245, (1985).
• Method of Producing Petroleum Coke, No 1160977, (1985).
• Contact Element, No 1223988, (1985).
• Method of Coal Transport No 1425151, (1988).
• Method of Ice, Gas-hydrate and Paraffin Plugs Removal in Exhaust Tubes of Wells and Pipelines. No 4800198, (1990).
• Method of Liquidation of Ice, Hydrate and Hydrate-Paraffin Plugs in Wells, No 1739011, (1992).
• Method of Measurement of Gas or Vapor Void Fraction in a Fluid Flow, (1994).
• A Non-periodically Forced Bubble Fusion Reactor, Patent H26-040 US (1995).

Books

Memberships:  

• Real Member (Academician) of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1991.
• Real Member (Academician) of Academy of Sciences of Republic of Bashkortostan, 1991.
• Real Member of Academy of Natural Sciences of Russian Federation, 1995.
• Member of the National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Russia, 1976.
• Real Member of Central Asia Academy (Uzbekistan), 1993.
• Real Member of International Eastern Petroleum Academy (Azerbaijan), 1993.
• Member of the Congress Committee of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), 1996.

Membership in Editorial Boards:

• Member of Editorial Advisory Board of "International Journal of Multiphase Flow" (Pergamon Press).
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board of "International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer" (Pergamon Press).
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board of "International Journal of Experimental Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics" (Elsevier).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal "Transport in Porous Media" (Kluwer Academic Publishers).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal "Multiphase Science and Technology" (Begell House Inc.)
• Member of the Editorial Board of "Russia Journal of Engineering Thermophysics" (Elsivier).
• Member of Editorial Board of "Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics" (PMTF), (Siberian Branch of Nauka, Novosibirsk, Russia).
• Member of Editorial Board of "Journal of Engineering Physics" (JFG) (Tekhnika, Minsk, Belorussia).

Honours:

• Lenin Komsomol Prize Laureate, 1973
• USSR State Prize Laureate, 1983
• Gold Medal of USSR Economical Achievement Exhibition, 1989
• First Prize of Siberian Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences, 1990.
• Honor of the First Plenary Lecture at the Opening Session of the International Conference on Multiphase Flow, Kyoto, Japan, 1995.
• Makeev Gold Medal of Russian Federation of Astronautica (1996)
• Tsiolkovski Gold Medal of the Russian Federation of Astronautics (2000)
• Order of Honor (Decree of the President of Russian Federation, 2000)

Other Activities:

• Member of Scientific Committee, IUTAM Symposium High Velocity Deformation of Solids, August 24-27, 1977, Tokyo, Japan.
• Member of Scientific Committee, Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer in Two-Phase Energy and Chemical Systems, International Seminar (International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer), September 4-8, 1978, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
• Member of Scientific Committee, IUTAM Symposium, Mechanics and Physics of Bubbles in Fluids, June 15-19, 1981, Pasadena, USA.
• Member of Scientific Committee, International Colloquium of Gas Dynamics of Explosion and Reactive Systems, August, 1981, Minsk, Belorussia.
• Member of Scientific Committee, Transient Phenomena in Multiphase Flow, International Seminar, May 25-29, 1987, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
• Member of Scientific Committee, International Symposium on non-Linear Acoustics, 1987, Novosibirsk, Russia.
• Member of Scientific Committee, IUTAM Symposium Mechanics of Fluidized Beds, 1991, Stanford, USA.
• Member of Organizing Committee, International Seminar Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media, 1991, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
• Member of Scientific Committee, 1-st International Conference on Multiphase Flow, 1991, Tsukuba, Japan.
• Member of International Scientific Advisory Committee of VI International Symposium on Transfer Phenomena, 1993, Seoul, Korea.
• Member of Scientific Committee, IUTAM Symposium on Bubble Dynamics and Interphase Phenomena, 1993, Birmingham, England.
• Member of Organizing Committee, 2-nd International Conference on Multiphase Flow, 1995, Kyoto, Japan.
• Member of Program Committee, IV International Conference "Lavrentyev Readings on Mathematics, Mechanics and Physics", 1995, Kazan, Russia.
• Member of Scientific Advisory Committee of 7-th International Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics (NURETH-7), 1995, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA.
• Member of Scientific Committee, China, International Seminar on Multiphase Flow, 1997, Beijing, China
• Member of Organizing Committee, 3-rd International Conference on Multiphase Flow, 1998, Lyon, France.
• Member of Scientific Committee of 3-d Workshop Nesebar' 98 Transport Phenomena in Two-Phase Flow, 1998, Nesebar, Bulgaria.
• Member of Scientific Committee of 2-d International Conference on Heat Transfer and Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, 1999, Kielce, Poland.
• Member of Organizing Committee, 4-rd International Conference on Multiphase Flow, 2001, New Orleans, USA.
• Member of Scientific Committee of 3-d International Conference on Heat Transfer and Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, 2002, Kielce, Poland.

Research Grant Activities and Professional Consulting

• Analytical Theory of Strong Explosion on Plane Boundary Between Two Different Gases.
• Analytical Theory of Cylindrical and Spherical Cumulation of Shock Detonation Wave.
• Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Media or Multiphase Flow Mechanics. Basic Equations and Averaging of Equations in the Mechanics of Heterogeneous and Dispersed Flows.
• Shock and Acoustic Waves in Gas, Vapor and Droplet Suspensions.
• High Velocity Shock and Detonation in Solids with Phase Transitions. Hardening of Metal and Diamond Production by Explosion.
•  Velocity Deformation of Solids. Dislocation Theory. Superplasticity.
• Combustion and Explosion of Gas Particle or Droplet Suspensions, Powders and Porous Solids.
• Shock Wave Propagation in Gas or Vapor Bubbly Liquids. Anomalous Influence of Gas Thermal Properties on Dissipation of Waves. Amplification of Shock Waves in Bubbly Liquids and Clay Suspensions.
• Heat and Mass Interphase Exchange in Gas and Vapor Disperse Liquid Mixtures. Hydromechanics and Thermophysics of Bubbles and Drops.
• Steady and Non-steady Gas and Vapor Liquid Flows and Heat and Mass Exchange in Channels and Tubes.
• Hydrodynamics and Heat Exchange in Hydrocarbon Flow with Transitions and Chemical Reactions in Tube Furnaces.
• Steady and Non-steady Critical Discharge of Vapor-Liquid Flow.
• Burn-out Crisis in Steady and Non-steady Vapor-Liquid Flows.
• Theory of Dusty Gas Flow Around Bodies.
• Filtration of Multiphase Multicomponent Liquid in Porous Media. Enhancement of Oil Recovery by Micellar and Polymer Flooding.
• High Frequency Electromagnetic Heating of Porous Media Saturated by Liquids with Phase Transitions and Chemical Reactions.
• Supercompression of the bubbles in liquids. Sonoluminescence, sonochemistry and bubble thermonuclear fusion.