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Authors
Alla Nikitina
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Candidate (Kandidat nauk) of Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of the Russian Language for Humanitarian and Natural Science Faculties, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Russian Folklore (course, seminar); Russian Traditional Culture (special course for foreign students); Russian Mentality in Everyday Life and in Culture: Traditions and Present Day (course and seminar for foreign students); Russian Holidays (seminar for foreign students); Russian Speech Today (seminar for foreign students); Multinational St.Petersburg (seminar for foreign students).
Research interests: Folklore (above all, Russian and Slavonic folklore, and certain forms of West European folklore as well): ritual (both calendar-based and family-based); mythology (everyday mythology above all) and surviving beliefs related to it; systems of signs and symbols (particularly animal and plant codes of Slavonic and West European cultures), as well as the colour code; incantations and, as a result, folk magic.
Other interests: Russian history and literature, 19th century above all; Russian national costume (pattern, cut, sign and colour codes); folk songs and instrumental music (above all, those of the Russian North-West).
Anatolij Alekseev
Academic Degree, Title, Position: PhD in Philology (doktor nauk), Head, Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg. State University
Courses, seminars, special courses: Biblical Theology, Gospel of John, History of the Bible.
Research interests: textology, translations of the Bible.

Other interests: in 1997, with the support of Novi Testamenti Studiorum Societas founded the Biblical Library in St. Petersburg. It was the first specialised research library devoted to Biblical studies.



Andrei Dvornichenko
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'.
Andrei Tereschuk
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Candidate (Kandidat nauk) of History, Associate Professor, Head of the Sector of Russia Studies at the Institute of Russian Language and Culture, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russia; Mythology of Russian History and Culture; Russian Émigré History and Culture; Russian Linguistics and Cultural Studies; Intellectual History of Russian Émigrés.
Research interests: history of Russia, mythology of Russian history and culture.
Other interests: Chief Editor of the military and historical Novy Chasovoy ("The New Sentinel") magazine, the Russkoe Proshloe ("Russian Past") almanac, and STUDIO, a journal on Linguistics and Cultural Studies.
Andrey Stepanov
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).
Boris Averin
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: Russian Literature of Late 19th Century - Early 20th Century; Works of Vladimir Nabokov; Works of Vladimir Nabokov in Russian.
Research interests: Symbolist poetry, émigré authors, especially Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov.
Other interests: Member of the Union of Russian Writers. Author and host of the following TV programmes at the Kultura channel: Paradoxes of History, The Unknown Peterhof, and Mysticism of Fate; as well as several radio programmes such as Professional Reader's Diary, Published in St. Petersburg, etc. Is project head of the Sovremennye Zapiski journal academic re-edition.
Awards, prizes: Received the highest award from the Russkaya Kultura ("Russian Culture") International Association in 2008: the diploma "Honorary Worker of Russian Culture".
Elena Chvorostianova
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Department of Russian Language, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
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. 
Research interests: literary theory, prosody, poetics, methodology of literary studies, history of Russian literature: 18th/20th centuries.
Other interests: traditional European and Oriental cultures, history of cinema, history of music; cross-disciplinary studies.
Elena Sonina
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.
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russian Mass Media: 18th/19th Centuries, History of Russian Mass Media: 20th Century, History of Russian Journalism: 19th Century, History of Russian Journalism: 20th Century, Second Half.

Research interestshistory of 18th/20th century Russian journalism, history of Russian conservatism, M. N. Katkov's publishing activities and opinion journalism.

Igor Sukhih
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.
Kira Rogova
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. Honorary Professor of St.Petersburg State University. Chief Editor of the Mir Russkogo Slova ("World of the Russian Word") journal. Member of the Board of Trustees at the Russian Society of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (ROPRYAL).
Courses, seminars, special courses: Linguistic Background of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language; Russian Syntax; Russian Stylistics; Text Theory.
Research interests: syntax, Russian stylistics, text as an object of linguistic research, methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language.
Other interests: journalism.
Awards, prizes: awarded with an Order of the Badge of Honour, an Order of Friendship, a Medal of the Labour Veteran, a lapel pin of the Soviet Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education "For outstanding success at work", an Alexander Pushkin Medal "For great contribution to making Russian widely spoken in the world".
Konstantin Alekseev
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.   
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russian Journalism: 20th Century, First Half, History of Sports Journalism, History of Russian Opinion Journalism.

Research interests: history of 20th century Russian journalism, history of sports journalism and leisure journalism. 

Lia Bondarko
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Professor, was Head of the Department of Phonetics and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages, the Faculty of Philology and Arts, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Modern Russian Phonetics; Levels of Linguistic Analysis; Problems and Methods of Experimental Phonetic Analysis of Speech; General Phonetics.
Research interests: General linguistics, applied linguistics, general and experimental phonetics, modern Russian.
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".
Ludmila Zubova
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Department of Russian Language, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russian; Stylistics; Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetic Language; Language History and Modern Poetry; Linguistic Experiment in Modern Poetry; Modern Poets' Language; Poetic Grammar.
Research interests: history of language; poetic language.
Other interests: Member of the Union of Russian Writers, branch in St. Petersburg; writes poems. Has been head of students' practice in Dialectology for 25 years. In 1977–1990 headed dialectological expeditions. Since 2008 has been in charge of the Stylistics Section at St.Petersburg Annual March Conference and has presided over this section's meetings. Is a member of the panel of judges for a number of poetic competitions and festivals; appeared on radio and TV; participated in discussions devoted to the Russian language and modern literature.
Awards, prizes: Leningrad State University Prize for the monograph "Marina Tsvetaeva's Poetry: The Linguistic Aspect"; St.Petersburg State University Prize for the monograph "Modern Russian Poetry in the Context of Language History"; the Honorary Certificate of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
Maria Arsentyeva
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.
Maria Solovyeva
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Philology, St. Petersburg State University. Expert in the history of the French language and country studies. Lectures and seminars on «History of the French language», «Francophone Studies», practical courses in the French language.
Marina Miretina
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.
Mikhail Marusenko
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Romance Philology, St. Petersburg State University. Expert in authorship attribution of anonymous and pseudo-anonymous texts, language policy, scientific and engineering terminology and country studies. Lectures on «Authorship attribution of anonymous and pseudo-anonymous texts of fiction via linguistic methods», «Data analysis in linguistics: planning, processing and interpretation of the linguistic experiments», «Language policy of the European Union», «Terminology», practical course in translation. Supervised the thesis of 11 Candidates of Philology and 2 Doctors of Philology.
Mikhail Otradin
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).
Mikhail Popov
Academic Degree, Title, Position: Doctor of Philology; Full Professor at the Department of Russian Language, the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University; head of the department; academic title – Associate Professor.
Courses, Seminars, Special Courses: History of Russian; Old Church Slavonic; Comparative Grammar of Slavonic Languages; Russian Historical Phonetics and Dialectology; Phonetics and Phonology of Modern Russian; Introduction to Diachronic Phonology; Russian Historical Phonology; Phonology and Chronology of Proto-Slavic Palatalizations; History of Russian Writing System and Orthography.
Research interests: history of the Russian language and theoretical phonology.
Awards and Prizes: Prize for the Best Research Publication awarded by the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University (2006).
Natalia Demkova
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. 
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Old Russian Literature: 11th/17th centuries, Current Issues in Old Russian Literature Studies, Medieval Russian Narratives, The Tale of Igor's Campaign and the Literature of That Period, Medieval Genre Canon and Literary Reality, 17th Century Russian Prose in the Context of Traditions, Literary Innovations of Protopope Avvakum, Life of Avvakum and Russian 12th/17th Century Autobiographic Texts, Transformations of Literary Genres during the Transition Period of Literature Development (17th Century)
Research interestshistory of literature and culture of Ancient Rus’, Old Russian manuscript books, textual criticism of medieval literature, historical poetics and stylistics, "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" and the problem of genres in the literature of Kievan Rus' (11th/13th centuries), opinion journalism of early old believers.
Other interestspractical (cameral) archaeography, ancient Slavonic poems, first experiences in Russian 17th century lyric poetry, thematic and literary relations between the new Russian literature and the literature of Ancient Rus'.
Olga Cherepanova
Academic Degree, Title, Position: Doctor of Philology; Full Professor at the Department of Russian Literature, the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University; academic title - Full Professor.
Courses, Seminars, Special Courses: Comparative Typology of Slavonic Languages; Word in the Cultural Space of Folk Tradition; Ethnolinguistics; The Depth of Memory: Ancient Texts and Traditional Spiritual Culture of the People; Ancient Text: Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Commentary; History of Russian; Old Slavonic Texts: Language and Culture.
Research interests: history of the Russian language. Traditional culture and folk literature: history and modern times. Language in "small forms" of folklore. Slavic mythology. Mythological beliefs in the north of Russia in the 19th-20th centuries. Representation of mythological beliefs in the language.
Other interests: painting, tourism.
Awards and Prizes: The Veteran of Labour Medal.
Olga Kruglikova
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.
Courses, seminars, special courses: History of Russian Mass Media: 18th/19th Centuries, History of Russian Mass Media: 20th Century, History of Russian Journalism: 19th Century, History of Russian Journalism: 20th Century, Second Half.
Research interestshistory of 18th/20th century Russian journalism, history of Russian conservatism, M. N. Katkov's publishing activities and opinion journalism.

Petr Bukharkin
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 and St.Petersburg Orthodox Ecclesiastical Academy and Seminary.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Historical Poetics; History of Russian Literature: 18th Century; Russian Literature Development: from 10th to 20th Century; Literary Theory: Rhetoric; 18th Century Russian Literature.
Research interests: history of 18th century literature and culture, literary theory, historical poetics, stylistics, rhetoric.
Other interests: Professor Bukharkin is particularly focused on the relations between the secularised literature of the 18th-20th centuries and cultural-linguistic traditions of the church. Is engaged into academic publishing being a member of editorial boards at several Russian and Ukrainian periodicals devoted to collected articles.
Svetlana Adonieva
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".
Tatiana Rozhdestvenskaya
Academic Degree, Title, Position: 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 Literary Russian, Old Church Slavonic, Language and Literature of Medieval Novgorod, Old Russian Epigraphy, Linguistic Source Studies.
Research interests: history of Russian, history of Slavonic writing system, Old Russian literature, medieval Slavonic epigraphy, paleography, birchbark manuscripts, linguistic source studies.
Other interests: history and archaeology of Ancient Rus', Old Russian art, travelling and expeditions.
Awards and prizes: winner of the1995 University Prize for her monograph "Old Russian Graffiti in Temples: New Sources, 11th/15th Centuries", a certificate of honour from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,a certificate of honour and a badge of honour from the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Encyclopaedia Centre.
Valentin Bulkin
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'.
Varvara Speranskaya
Academic Degree, Title, Position PhD in Art Studies (kandidat), Professor, Department of Design, Faculty of Arts, St. Petersburg State University.
Courses, Seminars, Special Courses  The Architecture of Ancient Rus', History of Russian Architecture: 18th/19th Centuries, History of Soviet Architecture, History of World Architecture: 20th/Early 21st Centuries, Fundamentals of Architecture.
Research interests Russian architecture, Soviet architecture, world architecture of the 20th/21st centuries, interrelations of fine art and architecture, heritage of Russian and foreign architects and sculptors. 
Other interests: Literature: prose, poetry, memoirs. Family. Travelling.

Awards and Prizes Holder of the medals: "Veteran of Labour" and "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg"

Vasiliy Himik
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".
Vladimir Kolesov
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of Philology; Professor at the Department of the Russian Language, the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University.
Courses, seminars, special courses: Historical Grammar of Russian; Current Issues in Russian Linguistics; Historical Accentology; General Rhetoric and Stylistics; Russian Mentality in Language and Speech; Language and Style of the Modern Period.
Research interests: theoretical, historical and practical Russian linguistics; linguistics and its history; Russian philology.
Other interests: reading, gardening, lonely walks.
Awards, prizes: won University prizes for best academic works (1973, 1989, 1999) and for teaching expertise (1988). An Honorary Scientist of the Russian Federation.
Vladimir Markovich
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 195080s.
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.
Yuri Krivosheev
Academic degree, academic title, position, place of work: Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Department of Historical and Regional Geography, the Faculty of History, St.Petersburg State University.
Research interests: History of Ancient and Medieval Russia, historiography of Russian history, historical geography of Russia, history of St. Petersburg.
Other interests: Editorial Board Chairman for the "Russian Library" series at the Nauka publishing house.