Ludmila Verbitskaya
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, President of St.Petersburg State University, Dean of the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Modern Russian Orthography, Writing System and Phonetics; Theoretical Phonetics and Phonology; Levels of Linguistic Analysis: Phonology; Methods of Linguistic Analysis.
Research interests: general linguistics, orthoepy, phonetics.
Other interests: a member of the State Council of Russian Language, Head of the Council of Speech Standards created by the Governor of St. Petersburg. President of the Russian Society of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (ROPRYAL). President of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL). Vice-President of the UNESCO Committee on Women Education; an advisor to the Governor of St. Petersburg on education, science and the media.
Awards, prizes: Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg. Awarded with the Order of People's Friendship; the French Order of Academic Palms, rank of "Commander"; Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Second, Third and Fourth Degree; the National Order of the Legion of Honour, France's highest decoration; Order of Russian Glory; lapel pin, "Honorary Worker of Higher Education of Russia"; Award of the Royal Jubilee Fund of Great Britain for achievements in the field of higher education; Russian Government Prize in Education; won the Andrey Pervozvanny International Prize in the nomination "For Faith and Loyalty".