Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Department of History of Russia from the Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century, Dean of the Faculty of History, St.Petersburg State University.
Research interests: Kievan Rus' history, history of the Great Duchy of Lithuania, Ukrainian history, history of Cossacks, historiography and historical geography of Ancient Rus'.

Academic Degree, Title, Position: Doctor of Philology; Full Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University.
Courses, Seminars, Special Courses: Introduction to Literary Studies; History of Russian Literature: 19th Century, Second Half, Part Two; Concepts of Modern Literary Theory; Russian Literature Development: From 11th to 20th Century, Part Three; Special Seminar: Anton Chekhov and His Epoch.
Research interests: history of the Russian literature of the 19th century, literary theory, contemporary literature.
Other interests: translation from English, literary reviewing, writer of prose.
Awards and Prizes: 2nd Prize for Best Research Publication awarded by the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University (2006); the Neva Magazine Prize (2008); N.V. Gogol Prize awarded by the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg (2011).

Courses, seminars, special courses: Introduction to Literary Studies, Literary Theory", Prosody, 20th Century Prosody: Science and Scientific Mythology, Hermeneutics of Verse; gives a special seminar: Rhythm Poetics. 

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russian Literary Criticism; Russian Literature Development: from 11th to 20th Century; 20th Century Prose; Practical Poetics; Russian Literary Utopia; Anton Chekhov: the World as a Novel; Sergey Dovlatov's Prose; The Three Poetics of Mikhail Zoshchenko.
Researsh interests: Russian literature from 11th to 20th century, literary theory, history and theory of criticism.
Other interests: a member of the editorial boards of the Poet's Library series, the Neva magazine, the Literatura gazette, the School of Prose series, the Iskusstvo publishing house. Collaborates with a range of publishing houses as a compiler and a commentator. Member of the Union of Russian Writers, branch in St.Petersburg.
Awards, prizes: Prize of the Zvezda magazine for a series of articles on Russian classics, 1998; the Gogol Prize for his Twenty 20th Century Books work, 2005.

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work:PhD in Philology (kandidat nauk), Associate Professor, Department of the History of Journalism, Faculty of Journalism, St. Petersburg State University.   

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".

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Philology, St. Petersburg State University. Lectures on country studies, cultural linguistics, standards of French speech, language of advertising, practical courses in the French language.

Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Philology, St. Petersburg State University. Lectures on country studies, social linguistics, a practical course in the French language.

Academic Degree, Title, Position: Doctor of Philology; Full Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University; academic title - Full Professor.
Courses, Seminars, Special Courses: History of Russian Literature: 19th Century, Second Half; Ivan Goncharov and Literature of His Epoch; People of the 1840s in Life and Literature; "A Literary Journey" in the Russian Literature of the 19th century; St. Petersburg in the Russian Literature of the 19th century.
Research interests: history of the Russian literature of the 19th century, the works of Ivan Goncharov, Russian Novel in the middle of the 19th century, St. Petersburg in Russian Literature.
Other interests: editorial board's member for the Complete Works of I.A. Goncharov in 20 volumes ("Nauka" Publishing House), member of the Writers' Union of St. Petersburg.
Awards and Prizes: Medal "In Memory of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg"; winner of the University Prize "For Pedagogical Skill" (2007); winner of the Literary Prize awarded by the Writers' Union of Russia to honour the 200th anniversary of I.A. Goncharov (2010).

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language and Methods of Its Teaching, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University. 

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work:  PhD in Philology (kandidat nauk), Associate Professor, Department of the History of Journalism, Faculty of Journalism, St. Petersburg State University.

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology; Associate Professor; Full Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Russian Folklore; Cultural and Speech Stereotypes; Folklore: A Behavioural Model and Verbal Context; Fieldwork Methods; Folklore and Ritual in Contemporary Culture; Introduction to Folklore Studies; Semantics and Pragmatics of Folklore; Fundamentals of Traditional Text Analysis, etc.
Research interests: Traditional culture, folklore, symbolic practices and collective representations, pragmatics, fieldwork.
Other interests: Director of the autonomous non-commercial organisation "Vladimir Propp Centre: Humanitarian Research in the Sphere of Traditional Culture".

Academic degree, academic title, position: Candidate (Kandidat nauk) of Art History, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Art History, the Faculty of History, St. Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Old Russian Art, Introduction to Art History, Byzantine Art.
Research interests: Old Russian art, including the architecture of the pre-Mongol Rus'.

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of the Russian Language for Humanitarian and Natural Science Faculties, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Linguistic Background of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language; Russian Sub-Standard: Non-Normative Nomination; Contemporary Urban Colloquialisms: from Unceremonious to Vulgar; Russian Practical Grammar; Russian for Non-Linguists; Russian Colloquialisms as a Cultural and Linguistic Phenomenon; Fundamentals of Russian Jargon Studies.
Research interests: Russian grammar, lexicology, theory and practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language, sociolinguistics, jargon studies, Russian language and standards of speech, lexicography.
Awards, prizes: has been awarded the title "Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation".

Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology; Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russian Literature: 19th Century, First Half; Theory of Literary Process; Literary Theory: Hermeneutics; Does Literary History Have any Theory?; Classics and Avant-Garde.
Research interests: History of Russian literature: 19th century. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev. Narratology. Hermeneutics. Theoretical aspects of literary theory. Poetry of the Leningrad underground of the 1950–80s.
Other interests: an academic advisor of the cultural and educational society "The Pushkin Project", which annually holds international scientific conferences and methodology seminars in Pushkinskiye Gory.