In 1980 he moved to Novosibirsk, where he degree at the Novosibirsk State University in 1985 and PhD at the Novosiborsk Institute of Mathematics in 1988. As an undergraduate and graduate student he had two advisors: Samuel Krushkal and Nikolai Gusevskii. He left Russia for good in Fall of 1991. Kapovich spent 1991-1992 at MSRI and in University of Maryland (College Park) visiting Bil Goldman. From Summer of1992 and until Summer of 2003 he was working at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as an associate professor and (since 1997) a pro- fessor; Now is professor of mathematics. In 2007, his department was ranked 4-th in the country in Faculty Scholarly Productivity. The research area could be roughly described as geometric geometry (to distinguish ti from, say, algebraic geometry), or Gromov-style geometry. Author: On monodromy of complex projective structures; On asvmptotic cones and quasi-isometric classes of fundamental groups of 3-manifolds; On the moduli space of polygons in the Euclidean plane; The symplectic geometry of polygons in Euclidean space; Quasi-isometries preserve the geometric decomposition of Haken manifolds; On representation varieties of Artin groups, projective arrange- ments and the fundamental groups of smooth complex algebraic varieties; The mono- dromy groups of Schwarzian equations on closed Riemann surfaces;