Tomsk State University
Yuri Ershov was born in 1940 in Novosibirsk. In 1958 he entered the Tomsk State University and in 1963 graduated from the Mathematical Department of the Novosibirsk State University. In 1964 he successfully defended his PhD thesis "Decidable and Undecidable Theories" (advisor Anatolij Mal'tsev). In 1966 he successfully defended his DrSc thesis "Elementary Theory of Fields" (Элементарные теория полей).