Ecologist, entomologist.
Head of Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, SB RAS (from 1987)
Professor of the Chair of Zoology and Botanics of the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (from 1990)

Main directions of scientific research:
entomology (carabid and tenebrionid beetles);
ecology (zoological diagnostics of soils, successions, steppe research).

Publications: articles: 140;
books:
Zoological diagnostics of soils in forest-steppe and steppe belts. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1997 (in Russian).
Steppe ecosystems. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1982 (in Russian).
Steppe catenae. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1985 (in Russian).
Steppe destiny. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1997 (in Russian).
Biosfera, t. 8. Pradies i taiga. - Barcelona, 1997, as a co-author (in Catalonian).

Popular-scientific books:
Baraba - an outlandish land. - St.-Petersburg, 1995 (in Russian).

Pedagogical activity:
Lectural course: "Biogeography" and "Nature protection" in the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.
Several PhD. theses under the Prof. V.G.Mordkovich supervision were defended by:
Pekin, V. P. (1992)
Logunov, D. V. (1992)
Andrievskii, V. A. (1992)
Tshernyshev, S. E. (1997)
Berezina, O. G. (1997)
Lyubechansky, I. I. (1998)
Knor, O. G. (1998)
Prikhodkina, L. I. (1998)
Legalov, A. A. (1998)
Dudko, R. Yu. (1998)

Address (work):
Siberian Zoological Museum
Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology SB RAS
Frunze street 11, Novosibirsk 91
630091 Russia

Phone: +7(3832)170633
Fax: +7(3832)170973
E-mail: mu@eco.nsc.ru