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

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

 

Place of work, position:

Altai State University, Head of the Department of Regional Studies of Russia, National and State-Confessional Relations, Head of the Laboratory for Ethnocultural and Religious Studies

 

Professional area:

Author of more than 550 scientific and educational-methodical works, including 21 monographs, more than 30 educational-methodical publications on the ethnocultural and ethnoconfessional history of Siberia and Asia. Articles have been published in Russian, English, Turkmen, Mongolian in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, China, USA, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Great Britain and Mongolia.

* Hirsch index according to RSCI - 26,
* Hirsch index Scopus - 6,
* Hirsch index Web of Science - 6.

- Member of the dissertation council D 212.005.08 in historical sciences.

- Member of the editorial board of the journals: "Religious Studies" (Russia), "Bulletin of the Altai State University. Series Historical Sciences and Archeology" (Russia), "The World of Greater Altai" (Kazakhstan), "Bulletin of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Series: Historical Sciences. Philosophy. Religious Studies" (Kazakhstan), "Socio Time" (Russia), etc.

- Scientific expert of the Russian Foundation for the Humanities; Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation, Russian Academy of Sciences. He was the head and main executor of more than 70 grants and business contracts received from the MION, the Russian Foundation for the Humanities, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Presidential Foundation of the Russian Federation, etc.

Head of the leading scientific school of Russia in the field of ethnoreligious studies of Central Asia, supported by the Presidential Foundation of the Russian Federation.

- Member of various expert councils: the National Center for State Scientific and Technical Expertise of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republican Research Scientific and Consulting Center for Expertise, the Expert Council of the Federal Agency for Nationalities Affairs, etc. Chairman of the Expert Council for State Religious Studies Expertise of the Office of the Ministry of Justice for the Altai Territory.

Laureate of the Altai Territory Government Prize in Science and Technology (2006, 2015, 2019, 2023).

Laureate of the National Prize "Professor of the Year" (2022).

Winner of the "Intellectual Capital of Altai" competition, held by the Government of the Altai Territory, in the nomination "Scientist of the Year" (2017, 2021).

He is one of the developers of the concept of development of the religious landscape of Western Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia from the era of late antiquity to the present. His scientific interests are related to the study of the religious landscape of Western Siberia and the border regions of Mongolia and Kazakhstan, as well as the history of state-confessional relations in Russia. He substantiated the concept that the religious landscape is a historically changing system of relationships between society and religious communities in a certain geographical space in the context of ethnic, socio-economic, cultural and political processes.

A separate area of scientific work is devoted to the study of the ethnocultural and ethnopolitical history of Siberia and Central Asia from the era of late antiquity to the ethnographic present. He pays considerable attention to the study of the socio-political organization, institutionalization of power, functioning of the elite and development of religious systems of various peoples of the Central Asian region. For many years, he has been conducting ethnoarchaeological and ethnoconfessional research in Altai, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The results obtained allowed him to develop a concept of the ethnocultural and ethnosocial development of the peoples of Western Altai from the 3rd millennium BC to the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD.