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

Doctor of historical sciences, professor

 

Place of work, position:

Miklouho-Maclay Institute of ethnology and anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEA RAS), Head of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies of the Institute of ethnology and anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 

Professional area:

Author of over 250 scientific and popular scientific works.

He is a specialist in the study of ethnography, history and culture of the peoples of Central Asia.

Awards and prizes:

Honored Scientist of the Republic of Kalmykia (1999)

Honored Scientist of the Republic of Buryatia (2003)

Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Buryatia in Science and Technology (2003)

Honorary Doctor of Historical Sciences of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia (2007)

Knight Commander of the Order of the Pole Star (2011).