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Academic Titles<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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  • Ph.D., Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, Moscow (1989).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Habilitation, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1996)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Proffesional Activities<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Teaching and research positions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1986\u20131993: Assistant, Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Dept. of Ancient Orient)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1990\u20131992: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Fellowship of the Canton Fribourg)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1992: Lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1993\u20131995: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1994\u20132023: Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Leading Research Fellow, Chief Research Fellow, Scientific director at the Centre for Comparative Studies on Ancient Civilizations, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, fired for political reasons<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1996\u20131997: Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Washington D.C., USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1997\u20131998: Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Strasbourg, France<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1998\u2013: Research Fellow (Charg\u00e9 de recherche), Senior Research Fellow (directeur de recherche) at the CNRS (Institute \u201cAusonius\u201d, UMR 5607), Bordeaux, France<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2001\u20132002: Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2004\u20132005: Research Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany (Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2007\u20132019: Professor of Ancient History at Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2008: Member of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2011\u20132019: Senior Fellow of the Excellence Cluster Topoi (Berlin), Research Project B-2-4 \u00abScythian Tombs \u2013 between Monumentality and Gigantomania\u00bb<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2012: Visiting professor at the University of Tbilisi (Georgia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2015\u20132022: Professor of Archaeology, Dean of the Faculty of History (2015\u20132017), research fellow at the Russian Academy of Economics and Public Administration (Moscow), fired for political reasons<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2019\u2013: Professor and director of the Center for Classical and Oriental Archaeology, Academic director of the Master program \u201cArchaeological Studies\u201d, National Research University HSE, Moscow
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      Institutions of national academic life<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Academies and learned societies<\/em>
      Corresponding member of the:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • 2002\u2013: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2003\u2013: Russian Academy of sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2004\u2013: Istituto Italiano per l\u2019Africa e l\u2019Oriente (IsIAO)\/ISMEO (since 2012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2016\u2013: Institut de France (Acad\u00e9mie des inscriptions et belles-lettres)

        2009\u2013: President of the Russian Association of Classical Studies
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        Responsibilities:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • 2009\u20132023: Scientific director at the Centre for Comparative Studies on Ancient Civilizations, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, fired for political reasons<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2019\u2013: director of the Center for Classical and Oriental Archaeology, Academic director of the Master program \u201cArchaeological Studies\u201d, National Research University HSE, Moscow<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2002\u2013: Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2010\u20132021: Member of the directing committee (Comit\u00e9 de pilotage) of the LaScArB (Laboratoire d\u2019excellence \u201cSciences arch\u00e9ologiques \u00e0 Bordeaux\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2011\u20132016: Member of the Council of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RGNF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2012-2016, 2022\u2013: Member of the Council of the Institute \u00abAusonius\u00bb, UMR 5607<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2013\u2013: Member of the International Research Council of the project \u201cAchemenet\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2013\u20132019: Vice-president of the Council on researches of the Ministry of science and education of Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2015\u20132017: Dean of the Faculty of History (2015\u20132017) at the Russian Academy of Economics and Public Administration (Moscow)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2018\u20132025: Vice-president of the Commission on the pseudo-science and falsification of researches of the Russian Academy of sciences, Moscow<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2025\u2013: Co-PI (principal investigator) at the GPR (Grand Programme de Recherche) Human Past,<\/em> Department of archaeological sciences of Bordeaux (Bordeaux University and Bordeaux Montaigne University) supported by the French government in the frame of the Initiative Excellence<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          Field Activities<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          Direction or co-direction of archaeological excavation sites<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          • 2008\u20132014: French-German mission at Kelainai \/ Apameia Kibotos (Dinar, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 2012\u20132015: French-German-Russian survey and excavations of Scythian tumuli in the region of Stavropol (Russia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 2017\u20132023: Surveys and excavations in the Lower Kodori region in Abkhazia\/Georgia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 2019, 2021-2023: International excavations at Agrigento, Sicily, Sanctuary of chtonic deities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 2021\u2013: International excavations at Parion, Turkey (director of the excavations at the agora)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 2024: Excavations at Kepoi, Taman peninsula, Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 2025\u2013: Mission at Soqotra island, Yemen (director)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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            Academic Production<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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            Publications as author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Author of 7 books and ca. 300 research articles including:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • Les Cimm\u00e9riens au Proche-Orient,<\/em> Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 127. Fribourg Suisse, G\u00f6ttingen, 1993, II + 325 p.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Konransuru Roshiano Kagaku (Science and S\u0441holars i\u0442 Russia).<\/em> Tokyo, 1995, X + 107 p. (in Japanese).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Cimmerians.<\/em> Moscow, 1996, 322 p. (in Russian).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Kimmerier und Skythen. Kulturhistorische und chronologische Probleme der Arch\u00e4ologie der osteurop\u00e4ischen Steppen und Kaukasiens in vor- und fr\u00fchskythischer Zeit,<\/em> Steppenv\u00f6lker Eurasiens, II. Moscow, Berlin, 2001, 324 p. (German and Russian versions).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Am Vorabend der Kolonisation. Das n\u00f6rdliche Schwarzmeergebiet des 8. – 7. Jhs v.Chr.,<\/em> Pontus septentrionalis, III. Moscow, Berlin, Bordeaux, 2005, 311 p. (German and Russian versions).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea. Vol. I. Tyras and vicinia.<\/em> Bordeaux, 2021, 227 p. (English and Russian versions).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Publications as editor<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Scientific editor of 24 volumes, including:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              • Une koin\u00e8 pontique. Cit\u00e9s grecques, soci\u00e9t\u00e9s indig\u00e8nes et empires mondiaux sur le littoral nord de la Mer Noire (VIIe s. a.C. \u2013 IIIe s. p.C.).<\/em> Ausonius Editions, M\u00e9moires 18. Bordeaux, 2007.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Kelainai \u2013 Apam\u00e9e Kib\u00f4tos\u00a0: D\u00e9veloppement urbain dans le contexte anatolien \/ Kelainai \u2013 Apameia Kibotos\u00a0: Stadtentwicklung im anatolischen Kontext<\/em> (Kelainai, I). Bordeaux, 2011.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • The Ulskii Tumuli. Cultic and Burial Ensemble of the Scythian Period in the Northern Caucasus<\/em> (Steppenv\u00f6lker Eurasiens<\/em> 6. Corpus tumulorum scythicorum et sarmaticorum<\/em> 2). Berlin, Bordeaux, Moscow, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Kelainai \u2013 Apameia Kibotos: une m\u00e9tropole ach\u00e9m\u00e9nide, hell\u00e9nistique et romaine \/ Kelainai \u2013 Apameia Kibotos: eine ach\u00e4menidische, hellenistische und r\u00f6mische Metropole<\/em> (Kelainai, II). Bordeaux, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Contact Zones of Europe from the 3rd<\/sup><\/em> Millenium BC to the 1st<\/sup><\/em> Millenium AD. Proceeding of the International Conference<\/em> (Ancient Civilizations form Scythia to Siberia, 26,2, special issue). Leiden, 2020.

                Chief editor of the journals <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • \u00abAncient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia\u00bb (Leiden, E.J.Brill) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • \u00abJournal of Ancient History\u00bb<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Moscow (Vestnik drevnej istorii<\/em>), <\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Chair of the international board of the journal \u00abProceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region\u00bb<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Member of editorial and scientific boards of 15 journals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                International Reputation<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                Responsibilities in institutions of international academic life<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                • Delegate at the International Union of Academies (since 2003), member of the bureau (2013\u20132015), vice-president (2017\u20132021)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Delegate (since 2014) at the International Federation of Associations of Classical Studies (FIEC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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