Head of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies St.Petersburg University.

Born 31 January 1959.

Education:

1976–1981 University of St. Petersburg. Department of Albanian Philology.
Diploma in Linguistics and Philology with distinction.

1982–1985 postgraduate studies, Department of General Linguistics of the St. Petersburg University.

1985 – PhD in Linguistics (Landscape lexics of Modern Greek Language).

1997 Habilitation Thesis (The Pontic Dialect of Modern Greek Language).

Employment:

1985–1986 Assistant of the Chair of General Linguistics, Seminars for General Linguistics, Course of Albanian Language and Literature, Course of Lithuanian language.

1986–1988 Chief of the Department of Modern Greek Studies.

1985–1988 Experiences in the Field Linguistics. Field Studies of the Gypsy Language (Region of St. Petersburg) Participation in several expeditions to the Far East (udege language).

1989,1993,1994,1995 – expeditions to the regions of compact Greek population.

1988–1994 Associate Professor of the Chair of General Linguistics Chief of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.

1994 – Scholarship Denis Diderot, Ecole Normale.

1995 – Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale, Paris, France.

1997 Habilitation Thesis ( The Pontic Dialect of Modern Greek Language).

1998–2004 Professor of the Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg University, Head of the Department of Bysantine and Modern Greek Studies.

1998 Lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College.

1999 Scholarship Onasis, Greece.

2000 Visiting Professor, Cyprus University.

2001 Visiting Professor, Cyprus University.

2002 Visiting Professor Cyprus University.

2006 Lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College.

Main fields of interests – socio- and ethnolinguistics, Greek dialectology, language contacts, comparative studies (history of literature, semiotics), literary standard.

Languages: Russian – mother tongue, Greek, English, French, German, Albanian, Lithuanian – fluently, Turkish, Polish, Italian, Ossetian – fair.