Leading Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chair of Department of Ethnography and Anthropology, St.Petersburg State University

Cand. hist. sc. (2000) and Chair of the Department of Ethnography and Anthropology at St.Petersburg State University since 2012. Member of Russian Geographic Society (RGO) and Chairman of Ethnographic Committee at RGO’s St.Petersburg branch. Member of Administration board of the Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia since 2015. Member of the editorial board for Problemy vostokovedeniia (Issues in Oriental Studies). Scholarly interests: ethnography of Russians, ethnography of indigenous minorities of Russia, ethnological expert work, history of Russian ethnography. Author of over 100 publications.