From 1970 to 1978 Orlov worked in the Department of Herpetology of the
Leningrad Zoo. Since 1978 he has been employed at the Laboratory of Ornithology and Herpetology of the
Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now the
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1985 he graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. In 1997 he became a junior research associate, and by 2021 he was a leading researcher at the Zoological Institute of the RAS. In 2006 he defended his Candidate of Biological Sciences dissertation on the topic “Fauna of Amphibians of Vietnam: Distribution, Taxonomic and Ecological Diversity,” supervised by
Ilya S. Darevsky.
Membership in scientific societies •
A. M. Nikolsky Herpetological Society (since 2000; Presidium member since 2015) •
Societas Europaea Herpetologica (European Herpetological Society)
Editorial board memberships •
Russian Journal of Herpetology •
Current Studies in Herpetology () •
Asian Herpetological Research (AHR) •
RusTerra Magazine Death Orlov died on 25 March 2026, at the age of 73. == Taxa named in his honour ==