Post Graduate Student of Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, SB RAS.
Scientific leader: Ph.D. Dmitri V. Logunov.

Birth Date: Sept., 17, 1978.
Place of Birth: Barnaul, Altaiskii Krai Province, RUSSIA.

Education: graduated from Biological Faculty, Altai State University (Barnaul, RUSSIA) in 2000.
Theme: "Spider fauna of Korgonskiy and Tigiretskiy Mts. Range (North-West Altai)".

Expeditions:
- 1998-2000 - mountains of the North-West Altai (Korgonskiy, Tigiretskiy & Bashchelakskiy Ranges);
- 1997-1999 - project activity: "Studying of redescription dynamics of forest ecosystems in Altai after 1997 fire".

Work:
from 2000 года - post graduate student of Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA.

Scientific interests: systematics of the subfamily Aelurillinae (Salticidae), systematics and faunistics of the Palaearctic spiders.

Scientific papers:

• 1. Azarkina, G. N. (1999): Materials to the spider (Arachnida, Aranei) fauna of North-West Altai and its foothills // Osobo okhranyaemye prirodnye territorii Altaickogo kraya i sopredel’nykh regionov, taktika sokhraneniya vidovogo raznoobraziya i genophonda. 4th regional’naya nauchno-prakticheskaya konf. 27-29 okt. 1999. Barnaul: Altaiskiy kraevoi komitet okhrany prirody i okruzhayushchei sredy, Altaiskiy Gos. Universitet. P. 73-75
• 2. Azarkina, G. N. & Logunov, D. V. (2001): Separation and distribution of Xysticus cristatus (Clerck, 1758) and X. audax (Schrank, 1803) in Eastern Asia, with description of a new species from the mountains of Central Asia (Aranei: Thomisidae) // Arthropoda Selecta 9 (2): 133-150.