Leading Researcher, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Since 1989, on the staff of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. D. hist. sc. (2005), Cand. hist. sc. (1995) in anthropology, ethnology, and ethnography. Since 2001, professor of the Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk State University. Member of Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia. Author of over 250 publications including 12 co-authored books. Scholarly interests: history and theory of/in Russian ethnography and ethnology, anthropology of art, history and culture of Turkic peoples in Central and Northern Asia, ethnic and social situation in Siberia.