Dmitry Strebkov graduated from the faculty of electrification of the Moscow Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture in 1959. D.S. Strebkov worked as an engineer at the Electromechanical Workshop of Mosselenergo (1959-1960), Senior Engineer, Senior Researcher, Sector Head, Laboratory Head, Head of Department, Deputy Chief Designer of the VNII Current Sources Institute (VNIIT) NPO Kvant (1960-1987), worked as director of the All-Russian Research Institute for Electrification of Agriculture (VIESH) from 1987 to 2015, from 2015 – scientific director of VIESH. D.S. Strebkov worked part-time as a senior lecturer, associate professor, professor of the Fundamentals of Radio Engineering and Television Department of the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute (1967–1987), head of the Renewable Energy and Rural Electrification department of the Moscow State Agrarian University. V.P. Goryachkina (2004–2014). From 2003 to 2012, D.S. Strebkov worked as Chairman of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on agroengineering specialties. In 1967, without a break from production, D.S. Strebkov graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov specialty Mathematics, in 1971 D.S. Strebkov graduated from the correspondence postgraduate school at VNIIT and defended PhD-dissertation, in 1983 – doctoral dissertation, in 1985 D.S. Strebkov received the title of professor of the department «Fundamentals of radio engineering and television». In 1991 was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASHNIL), in 1993 – a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in 1997 – an academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in 2013 – an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2008, D.S. Strebkov awarded the honorary title Deserved Scientist of the Russian Federation. D.S. Strebkov heads research in the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of electrification of agriculture and renewable energy. Under his leadership, 26 graduate students and 3 doctoral students defended their dissertations. D.S. Strebkov published over 1000 scientific papers and received 490 USSR author's certificates and patents of the Russian Federation, including 60 foreign patents. D.S. Strebkov since 1992 has been the Chairman of the Russian Section of the International Society for Solar Energy, and since 2002 he has been the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Committee on the Use of Renewable Energy Sources. D.S. Strebkov is a member of the doctoral dissertation council of the FSBSI FSAC VIM, as well as the head of the UNESCO Department of Renewable Energy and Rural Electrification and the head of the working group of the European Bureau for Solar Energy Education.