In 1987 graduated from the Biological-Chemical Faculty, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.
Employment history:
1987-1989 ― Teacher of biology in a secondary school.
1991-1994 ― Kuperwood Fellow of Academy of Natural Sciences attached to the Paleontological Institute, Moscow.
1994-2006 ― Researcher at the Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientific interests:
Taxonomy and phylogeny of the superfamily Curculionoidea.
Expeditions:
Participated in expeditions of the Paleontological Institute to the Maritime Province and Sakhalin Island in 1984 and 1991. Also participated in various expeditions to Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenia, Tadjikistan, Armenia, Kuznetskii Alatau, Novosibirsk Region, South Africa.
Other interests:
Aquarium design.
Scientific publications:
Егоров А.Б., Грачев В.Г. 1990. Обзор долгоносиков рода Bagous Germ., 1863 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) советского Дальнего Востока и сопредельных территорий // Новости систематики насекомых Дальнего Востока. C. 32-39.
Грачев В.Г. 1992. Сем. Eucnemidae - древоеды // Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока СССР. Т. 3. Ч. 2. С. 12-19.
Gratshev V.G. 1993. Vier neuen paläarktischen Bagous-Arten (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) // Russian Entomol. J. V. 2. № 2. P. 11-17.
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 1994 [1993]. New fossil Mantids (Insecta, Mantida [sic]) // Paleontol. J. V. 27. № 1A. P. 148-164.
Zherikhin V.V., Gratshev V.G. 1994 [1993]. Obrieniidae, fam. nov., the oldest Mesozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) // Paleontol. J. V. 27. № 1A. P. 50-67. [PDF]
Nikitsky N.B., Lawrence J.F., Kirejtshuk A.G., Gratshev V.G. 1993. A new family, Decliniidae fam. n., from the Russian Far East and its taxonomic relationships (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) // Russian Entomol. J. V. 2. № 5-6. P. 3-10.
Исаев А.Ю., Грачев В.Г. 1994. Новый вид долгоносиков рода Bagous Germar (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) из ульяновской области // Энтомол. обозр. Т. 73. Вып. 2. C. 318-320.
Zherikhin V.V., Gratshev V.G. 1995. A comparative study of the hind wing venation of the superfamily Curculionoidea with phylogenetic implicatons // Pakaluk J. , Slipinski S.A. (eds) . Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera. Papers celebrating 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. V. 2. Warszawa: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. P. 634-777.
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 1995. A new anthribid genus from the Baltic amber (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthribidae) // Mitt. Geol.-Paläontol. Inst. Hamburg. H. 78. S. 149-157.
Грачев В.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1995. Ревизия долгоносиков-немонихид родов Distenorrhinus и Procurculio (Insecta, Coleoptera: Nemonychidae) // Палеонтол. журн. № 2. C. 83-94.
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 1995. A revision of the nemonychid weevil subfamily Brenthorrhininae (Insecta, Coleoptera, Nemonychidae) // Paleontol. J. V. 29. № 4. P. 112-127.
Грачев В.Г. 1996. Определительная таблица видов рода Bagous Germ. // Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока СССР. Т. 3. Ч. 3. С. 258-260.
Zherikhin V.V., Gratshev V.G. 1997. The Early Cretaceous weevils from Sierra del Montsec, Spain (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) // Cretaceous Res. V. 18. P. 625-632.
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V., Jarzembowski E.A. 1998. A new genus and species of weevil from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) // Cretaceous Res. V. 19. № 3, 4. P. 323-327.
Грачев В.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1999. Gobicar, новый позднеюрский род долгоносиков-эккоптартрид из Монголии (Insecta, Coleoptera: Eccoptarthridae) // Палеонтол. журн. № 2. C. 43-45. [Abstract]
Gratshev V.G. 1999. Ulyanidae, an extinct family of weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) // Proc. First Intern. Palaeoentomol. Conf., Moscow, 1998. Bratislava: AMBA projects AM/PFICM98/1.99. P. 41-47. [Abstract]
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 2000. The weevils from the Late Cretaceous New Jersey amber (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) // Grimaldi D. A. (ed.). Studies on Fossils in Amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Leiden: Backhuys Publ. P. 241-254.
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 2000. New Early Cretaceous weevil taxa from Spain (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) // Acta Geol. Hispanica. V. 35. № 1-2. P. 37-46.
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 2001. The fossil record of weevils and related beetle families (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) // Second Intern. Congr. Palaeoentomol. Fossil Insects. 5-9 Sept., 2001, Krakow, Poland. Abstract Volume. P. 82.
Жерихин В.В., Грачев В.Г. 2003. Новый долгоносик (Insecta, Coleoptera, Nemonychidae) из нижнего мела Испании // Палеонтол. журн. № 4. С. 70-71. [Abstract] [PDF]
Gratshev V.G., Zherikhin V.V. 2003. The fossil record of weevils and related beetle families (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) // Acta zoologica cracoviensia. 46 (suppl. - Fossil Insects): 129-138.
Zherikhin V.V., Gratshev V.G. 2004. Fossil curculionoid beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil // Paleontol. J. 38 (5): 528-537. [PDF]
Soriano C., Gratshev V.G., and Delclòs X. 2006. New Early Cretaceous weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) from El Montsec, Spain. Cretaceous Research27 (4): 555-564. [Abstract] [PDF]
Anisyutkin L.N., Grachev V.G., Ponomarenko A.G., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Vršanský P. 2008. Part II. Fossil Insects in the Cretaceous Mangrove Facies of Southern Negev, Israel. In: Krassilov V. and Rasnitsyn A., eds, Plant–arthropod interactions in the early angiosperm history. Evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel. Sofia-Moscow & Leiden-Boston: Pensoft Publishers & BRILL, pp. 189-223.
Gratshev V.G. and Perkovsky E.E. 2008. New species of the genus Glaesotropis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Rovno amber. Paleontological Journal42 (1): 60-62. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
