Date and place of birth: August, 22, 1954, Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast Father - an engineer of art exploration of mineral deposits, mother – mine surveyor. He spent his youth and graduated from high school in 1971 in Tomsk.

Work Place: Professor, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russian Federation

Degrees: Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Cand. Sci. (Geol. and Miner.)

ORCID: 0000-0002-0715-7807

Scopus ID: 56350674500

ResearcherID: E-1754-2017

AuthorID: 68770

Education:

• 1976 – a degree in «Geological survey, prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits», Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk;

• 1984 – Cand. Sci. (Geol. and Miner.) ("Geology and geochemistry of the Seligdar apatite deposit"), Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk;
• 1995 – a degree "Open-pit Mining", Irkutsk State Technical University,  Irkutsk (by correspondence);
• 2003 – Dr. Sci. (Econ.) ("Strategic risks of the mining industry"), Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk. 

Scientific interests: economics of mineral raw materials; management of mining and oil and gas production; mining law; methods of geological exploration.

Researches and professional development: 

• 2017 – present: Professor of the Oil and Gas Department, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk;
• 2007–2016: Head of the Economics and Natural Resources Department, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk;
• 2006: Professor, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk;
• 2003–2005: Deputy Director of the Institute of Oil and Gas Affairs for Science, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk;
• 2001: Associate Professor, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk;
• 1994–1997: Deputy Chairman of the production artel (Nadezhda Prospectors' Artel), Bodaibo;
• 1992–1994: Chief geologist of the Inagli Prospectors' Artel, Aldan;
• 1977–1992: Senior technician-geologist, Geologist, Senior geologist, Head of the detachment, Chief geologist of the party, Head of the Timptono-Uchur geological exploration Expedition (FSUE "Aldangeology"), Aldan;
• 1976: Engineer of the research part of the Department of General and Historical Geology, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk.

 Academic and professional communities:

• Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences;
• Member of the editorial board of the journals Tsvetnye Metally; Non-ferrous Metals; Bulletin of the Tomsk polytechnic university. Geo аssets engineering;
• Member of the Tomsk Professorial Assembly.

Research projects (Head): projects of the Federal Target Program, Federal Agency for Education "Theoretical justification of the optimal taxation system of enterprises within the oil and gas complex of Russia" (2009-2013) and "Study of physical and mechanical processes of interaction of rock-destroying tools with the treated medium during trenchless laying of pipelines by directional drilling" (2009-2013); the project of the RNF "Critical Mineral resources in the Russian and world economy" (2022-2023).

Awards:

• Excellent student of subsurface exploration;
• Medal "50 years of the oil and gas complex of the Tomsk region".

Publications: more than 280 publications, 111 – in HAC, 47 – in Scopus, 21 – in Web of Science, 12 monographs. Participant of numerous Russian and international conferences, including China.

Selected papers:

• Boyarko G. Yu. Problems of legislative support of prospecting activity. Mineral Resources of Russia. Economics and Management.  2023;(4):68–73. (In Russ.);
• Khatkov V. Yu., Boyarko G. Yu., Bolsunovskaya L. M., Dibrov A. M., Dibrova Yu. A. Russian zirconium industry: current issues in raw material supply. Mining Science and Technology (Russia). 2023;8(2):128–140. https://doi.org/10.17073/2500-0632-2023-02-83;
• Boyarko G. Yu. Overview of the global tungsten market. Part 1. Mineral resource base. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2023;334(4):43–52. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2023/4/3908;
• Boyarko G. Yu. Overview of the global tungsten market. Part 2. Commodity flows of raw tungsten products.   Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering.. 2023;334(5):37–53. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2023/5/3909;
• Boyarko G. Yu. Overview of the global tungsten market. Part 3. Commodity flows of final tungsten products.   Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering.. 2023;334(6):57–74. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2023/6/3910;
• Boyarko G. Yu. Gold placer mining crews in Russia. Part I: Workers artels. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2023;2:25–31. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17580/gzh.2023.02.04;
• Boyarko G. Yu. Gold placer mining crews in Russia. Part 2: Industrial artels. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2023;3:42–48. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17580/gzh.2023.03.06;
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu., Tkacheva E. V. Lithium raw potential in Russia.  Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering.. 2022;333(12):7–16. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2022/12/3975;
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Russia’s dependence on iodine imports. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2022;(7):38–42. (In Russ.)  https://doi.org/10.17580/gzh.2022.07.06;
• Khatkov V. Yu., Boyarko G. Yu., Bolsunovskaya L. M., Dibrov A. M., Tkacheva E. V. Review of current antimony industry position in Russia.  Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2022;333(2):153–163. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2022/2/3568;
• Khatkov V. Yu., Boyarko G. Yu. Bromine raw materials in Russia: supply and demand challenge. Mineral Resources of Russia. Economics and Management. 2022;(1):78–82. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Current state of production and consumption of barite raw materials in Russia.  Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2021;332(10):180–191. (In Russ.) https://doi.org10.18799/24131830/2021/10/3403;
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu., Bolsunovskaya L. M. The dynamics of ferroalloys commodity flows within Russia. CIS Iron and Steel Review. 2021;21:23–33. https://doi.org/10.17580/cisisr.2021.01.04;
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Current state of the Russian salt industry. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2021;332(5):179–190.  (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2021/05/3201;
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Current state of molybdenum industry in Russia. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2021;332(2):73–86. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2021/2/3044;
• Davydenkov E. V, Bochkov A. S., Boyarko G.Yu. Subsoil user's partnership strategy with service contractors for geological exploration. Mineral Resources of Russia. Economics and Management. 2020;(6):60–64. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Critical commodity flows of manganese raw materials in Russia. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2020;331(4):38–53. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2020/4/2592;
• Boyarko G. Yu. Redress in cases of negative impact on the subsoil. Mineral Resources of Russia. Economics and Management. 2020;(1):56–63. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Yu. Dynamics of global production and commodity flows of niobium raw materials. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2019;330(10):216–229. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2019/10/2318;
• Khatkov V. Yu., Boyarko G. Yu. Current state of tungsten industry in Russia. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2019;330(2):124–137. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18799/24131830/2019/2/114;
• Khatkov V. Yu., Boyarko G. Yu. Administrative methods of import substitution management of deficient types of mineral raw materials. Journal of Mining Institute. 2018;234:683–692. https://doi.org/10.31897/PMI.2018.6.683;
• Khatkov V. Yu., Boyarko G. Yu. World and Russian counter import-export flows of mineral products. Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering. 2018;(3):145–167. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Commercial streams of ferroalloys in Russia. Chernye Metally. 2018;(3):60–69. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Yu., Ushakov V. Ya., Anosov D. S. Application of casing drilling technology. Construction of Oil and Gas Wells on Land and at Sea. 2018;(2):4–9. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Explorable and economically attractive mineral deposits in the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts of Russia. Mining of Mineral Deposits. 2018;12(1):109–114. https://doi.org/10.15407/mining12.01.109;
• Boyarko G. Yu., Zolotenkov Ya. V. Reproduction rate of mineral resources as the efficiency index of geological exploration. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2018;(1):37–42. (In Russ.);
• Boyarko G. Yu., Khatkov V. Yu. Global market of tin and modern state of tin industry in Russia. Tsvetnye Metally. 2018;(1):47–55.  (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17580/tsm.2018.01.06