Membership in state academies of sciences, academic degree, academic title:

Doctor of Cultural Studies

 

Place of work, position:

FGUK State Hermitage, Leading Research Fellow

 

Professional area:

Author of over 550 scientific papers, incl. 10 monographs on archeology and ethnocultural history of Central Asia. Articles published in Russian, English, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Estonian, Swedish and other languages ​​in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, Japan, USA, Great Britain, Italy, France, Holland, Denmark, Turkey, Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia and Mongolia.

Hirsch index according to RSCI - 10.

He was a member of 2 Dissertation Councils, the head and the main executor of a number of grants received from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, RFBR, etc.

He is one of the main developers of the chronology of the monuments of Southern Siberia, as well as an integrated approach to the study of ethnogenesis and "models of the world" of ancient peoples based on the analysis of materials from large burial mounds, sanctuaries, megaliths, paleoastronomy, metrology, sacred landscape, pictorial images and beliefs of the Sayano-Altai nomads and adjacent regions of Central Asia from late antiquity to the present.