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

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Place of work, position:

Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Professional activity:

Ethnographer, theorist of movement in anthropology, documentary filmmaker; President of the Russian Anthropological Film Festival; Laureate of the 2019 State Prize in Science and Technology for his contribution to the study of the cultural heritage of Arctic peoples.

Founder of the scientific school of anthropology of movement. Main areas of research: anthropology of movement, history and theory of colonization, nomadology, ethnophenomenology, mythology, and film anthropology. Theoretical developments are combined with empirical research (including expeditionary fieldwork).

* Hirsch Index according to the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) – 34

* Hirsch Index according to SCOPUS – 10

He is a member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), the International Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA), the International Arctic Social Research Association (IASSA), the Presidium of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Ethnographic Commission of the Russian Geographical Society; expert of the Russian Science Foundation.

Editor-in-chief of the academic journals Ethnography and Kunstkamera, member of the editorial boards and editorial councils of the journals: Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia, Ural Historical Bulletin, Anthropological Forum, Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University (series Geoarchaeology. Ethnology. Anthropology), Bulletin of the Ural Federal University (series Humanities), Bulletin of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (series Humanities and Social Sciences), Quaestio Rossica, Tractus Aevorum, etc.