Curriculum Vitae:

Main education in History:
Historian, Teacher for History and Social sciences (= M.A.), Petrozavodsk State University, 1977
Candidate of Historical Sciences (= Ph.D.), Saint-Petersburg Institute for History of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1989
Career:
Research Assistant, Researcher, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Language, Literature and History of Karelian Scientific Centre of Rissian Academy of Sciences in Petrozavodsk, 1978—1994
Senior Lecturer at the General History Department, Faculty of History, Petrozavodsk State University, 1994
Docent at the General History Department, Faculty of History, PetrSU, 1998 — present
Docent at the Auxiliary Historical Disciplines Department, Faculty of History, PetrSU, 2001— 2010
Vice-Dean for Scientific Activity at the Faculty of History, PetrSU, 2002 — present
Membership at the Scientific and Technical Council of PetrSU, 2002 — present
Head of Investigative Laboratory for Local and Microhistory of Karelia Faculty of History, PetrSU, 2004 — present
Membership of the PetrSU International activity Сouncil, 2006 — present
Docent of Russian History of the University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu), 2007— present
Membership at the Reference Group of the Barents Encyclopedia, coordinated by the Centre for Regional Science, Umea University, Sweden
Leading researcher of the Institute for North-European Studies at the Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) 2012—.

Field of research interests:
Social and Demography History of the West-North of Russia and Karelia (1500 — 1800); Local peasantry communities in the perspective of microhistorical studies (district, village, household, family); Karelian monasteries and Church parishes: foundation and development of a system in the Early Modern Time; Data-bases as a set of mechanisms towards getting on a potential historical information (altar dedications, documentary evidences of mass character by means of GIS-technologies); Documentary sources study and editing to be published.

Scientific International Experience:

1) Productive co-operation in the long-term Finnish-Russian Academician Project: «History of Karelia in the light of documents» (1980—1994). The documentary materials, which were discovered in the Russian, Finnish and Swedish archives, were edited then by our common efforts with Prof. Veijo Saloheimo and Dr Kimmo Katajala (Karelian Research Institute at the University of Joensuu), collected into the three volumes series, and published in Finland (Joensuu, 1987, 1991, 1993). It was held with respect by Soviet scientific community in History (see: senior-scholars’ of Leningrad Branch of the Institute for Russian History of Academy of Scienses of USSR Dr. Igor Shaskolsky and Dr. Zoya Dmitrieva observation in «Istoriographiya Dorevolyutsionnoi Karelii: Itogi i Perspectivy Izucheniya. Petrozavodsk, 1988») and was accepted with the great interest in the West Europe (see: professor of London University Michael Branch’s responce in «The Slavonic and East European Review». London. Vol. 74. 1. Jan., 1996).

2) Participation in the University of Joensuu Research Project «Karjala — Historia, Kansa, Kulttuuri», supervised by the Finnish Society of Karelian Culture. In result the book, edited by Pekka Nevalainen and Hannes Sihvo, was published as one of the volumes for fundamental SKS series (Helsinki, 1998).
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3) Chair of the Session at the VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies, that had place in Tampere (Finland), 29 July – 3 August of 2000: «Family Structures, Demography and Population in East Karelia»; contribution to the Round Table organizedby Prof. Juha Pentikainen (University of Helsinki): «Old Believers — History and Present in Russia and Abroad» (the same Congress) (see: the edition of Congress materials: «Boundaries of Earth and Consciousness. Studia Slavica Finlandensia. Tomus XIX» (Ed. by Toivo Flink, Katja Harvasaho, Helsinki, 2002)

7) Contributions on International scientific congresses, conferences and symposiums:
(1) «Baltic Sea Countries: History, Culture, Education» (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1990);
(2, 3, 4, 5, 6) «Rajamailla»: Finnish—Russian Cross-Border Summer Seminars (Kajani, Finland, 1990; Suomussalmi, Finland, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997);
(7) First International Fenno-Ugrian Congress of Historians (Oulu, Finland, 1993);
(8, 9) International Scholars’ Seminars, devoted to the Valamo monastery’ History (Heinavesi / New Valamo monastery, Finland, 1993, 1995)
(10) The Ist Summer Congress of Semiotics (Imatra, Finland, 1996);
(11, 12) Annual Russian-Finnish Humanitarian Symposiums (Imatra-Priozersk, Finland-Russia, 1994; Saint-Petersburg, 1998);
(13, 14) Finnish-Russian Colloquia of Elias Loennrot Institute (Kajani, Finland, 1997; Kuusamo, Finland, 1998);
(15) Second International Fenno-Ugrian Congress of Historians (Tallinn, Estonia, 1998);
(16) International Congress on the History of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Region (Reykjavik, Iceland, 1998);
(17) VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies (Tampere, Finland, 2000);
(18, 19, 20, 21, 22) Annual Colloquia in frames of over-Europe project «Saints’ Cults in Europe: A comparative Database and Atlas Project» (Rome, Italy, 2000; Budapest, Hungary, 2001; Goettingen, Germany, 2002; Oxford, Great Britain, 2005; Holar, Iceland, 2006);
(23) Medieval Studies Session of the Curriculum Resource Center at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary, 2001);
(24, 25, 26, 27) Dutch-Russian Conferences on Integral and Demographic History (Saint-Petersburg, 1999; Groningen/Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2000; Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2001; Tambov, Russia, 2002);
(28) «Vaesto ja Perhe Karjalassa» (Joensuu, Finland, 2003);
(29) Luostarit Karjalan Valistajina: Ortodoksisen Veljeston  60-vuotisjuhlaseminaari (Heinavesi (New Valamo), Finland, 2004);
(30) «Saints’ Cults on the North»: A Conference on Dedications in Northern Europe» (Heinavesi (New Valamo), Finland, 2005)
(32) An Old map and the archival document — how to supplement each other  (The experience of documentary sources research by coordinative searching the contemporary map information): Vanha Suomi (Kotka, Finland, 2006)
(33) Traditional Family in Karelia of Early Modern Time — what do we know about this institution?: Encountering the Russian North (Joensuu, Finland, 2007)
(34) Strategic or instinctive choice? Local Karelian peasants' community in 19th century Northern Russia striving to survive: Inheritance Practices, Marriage strategies and Household formation in European Rural Societies / Third Workshop of Working Group 3 (“Peasant Societies”) within COST A35: Programme for the Study of European Rural Societies (Rakoczi Castle, Sarospatak, Hungary, 2008)
(35) Ondrusov pustyn’ (Karelian monastery in the Novgorodian metropolitan’s patrimony) in the troubles of Nikonian Reform: “Новгородика — 2008. Вечевая республика в истории России” (Великий Новгород, РФ, 2008)
(36) An unknown episode of Karelian history in the context of Swedish occupation of Novgorod the Great: “Новгородика — 2008. Вечевая республика в истории России” (Великий Новгород, РФ, 2008)
(37) Was the governmental prohibition of slash-and-burn a reasonable solution for Northern Karelia in the end of nineteenth century?: Understanding Human Interaction With The Environment” (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009)
(38) Russian-Finnish borderland: Karelia as an object of the good intentions of Imperial government in the 19th century: «Россия и Финляндия в многополярном мире: 1809—2009» (Петрозаводск, РФ, 2009)
(39) Marriage, household and family in the 19th century life-course of a Karelian peasant: Historical records available and methods of data processing: Народ, разделенный границей: Карелы в истории России и Финляндии в 1809—2009 гг.: эволюция идентичности, религии и языка (Jonsuu, Finland, 2010)
(40) The creation and the using of electronic database for peasants’ family and household research by the mass character sources of 18th—19th centuries: «Компьютерные технологии и математические методы в исторических исследованиях» (Петрозаводск, РФ, 2011)
(41) GIS-system of “General Land Survey of Olonets gubernia”: IV Международная конференция Глобальные и региональные проблемы исторической географии (Санкт-Петербург — Пушкин, РФ, 2011)
(42) Imprint of Traditional Agriculture on Boreal Landscape Surrounding Vanished Communities in the Kostomuksha State Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia: Encounters of Sea and Land: The 6th ESEH conference (Turku, Finland, 2011)
(43) Household of Karelian peasantry in the 18th—19th centuries: Historical quantitative information and the methods of the research: IX Конгресс этнографов и антропологов России (Петрозаводск, РФ, 2011)
(44) Traditions of the marriage in Karelian village of 19th century: about the perspectiveness of cartography methods of analysis to the information of Scribe Books: IX Конгресс этнографов и антропологов России (Петрозаводск, РФ, 2011)
(45) The Database consisted from the information of the mass character as the way to historical-demography investigation: Международная конференция El’Manuscript: Информационные технологии и письменное наследие (Петрозаводск—Ижевск, РФ, 2012)
(46) The marriage in Karelia — was it an occasional case or the process by the local community regulations: Международная научно-практическая конференция “Человек в истории: героическое и обыденное” (Петрозаводск, РФ, 2012)

8) Participation in a long-term scientific collaborative projects:
The Finnish-Russian Research project «History of Karelian Village Repola and its Area», coordinated by professor Antero Heikkinen (University of Joensuu, Finland), 1998—2000; In first result the book, edited by Heikki Tarma, was published in 2001. Look to ;
The Research project of the Academy of Finland «Pre-Industrial East Karelian Family System», coordinated by professor Juhani Lehtonen (University of Helsinki, Finland), 1999—2000;
The Research project of the Academy of Finland «Rural Family between the East and the West: Marriage and Household Arrangements in the Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire», coordinated by professor Tapio Hamynen (University of Joensuu, Finland), 2000—2003. In result the book, edited by Tapio Hamynen, Jukka Partanen and Yury Shikalov, was published in 2004. Look to ;
The Dutch-Russian Project on Integral and Demographic History, coordinated by professor Pim Kooij (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), 2001—2003. In result the book, edited by Pim Kooij and Richard Paping, was published in 2004. Look to ;
The Over EuropeResearch project: «Trans-National Database and Atlas of Saints' Cults», coordinated by Dr Graham Jones (University of Leicester, United Kingdom), 2002 — present. In first result the book, edited by Graham Jones, was published in 2003. Look to ;
Barents Project: History Book, coordinated by professor Lars Elenius (Lulea University of Technology, Sweden), 2010—2013
Barents Project: Encyclopedia, coordinated by professor Mats-Olov Olsson (Umea University, Sweden), 2010—2013

9) Initiation of International long-term Teaching-Editing-Research Project  between Petrozavodsk State University, Max-Planck-Institute for History (Germany), the University of Joensuu (Finland) and the Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (St-Petersburg, Russia) in order to promote international cooperation in the field of research, editing and publishing the documentary sources and teaching activities (Agreement was signed by rectors of Universities and Directors of Institutes involved on October 14, 2003). TERP is developing by Investigative Laboratory for Local and Microhistory of Karelia , that is created at the History Faculty of PetrGU in 2004 by my initiative and leadership.
An Agreement for TERP collaboration to be continued was signed on 28 of November, 2006, and then once more on 25 of February, 2010. Since 2006 our partner in Germany is the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Christian Albrecht University at Kiel.

10) Staying for shorter or longer periods as a guest professor and/or scholarship holder in European educational and research centers, such as
Karelian Institute of University of Joensuu (Finland),
Institute for History of Aarhus’ University (Denmark),
Faculty of Humanities of University of Joensuu (Finland),
Central European University in Budapest (Hungary),
Max-Planck Institute for History in Goettingen (Germany).
Faculty of Social Sciences and Regional Studies at the University of Joensuu (Finland)
Faculty of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu)

11) Membership in History Pilot Group for the Cross-Border University (CBU) foundation. An Agreement is signed by rectors of several Finnish and Russian Universities, being initiated by Finnish Ministry of Education. Hictory Pilot includes four institutions of Higher Education: Petrozavodsk State University (Russia), Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu (Finland), and Saint-Petersburg European University (Russia). The current work for creating a new programmes and distance courses, developing the teaching and studying to the multi-stage process in frames of Bologna Protocol has place on the moment (2006—2008).

Teaching experience:
1) Medieval History of the West Europe (120-hours annual basic course in Russian for the Second year students, Faculty of History, PetrSU), 1994 — present;
2) England under the Tudors and the Reformation (24-hours annual special course in Russian for the Third year students, Faculty of History, PetrSU), 1998 — present;
3) History of Karelia from an Ancient Times to the World War II (28-hours course of lectures in English for International group of students at the University of Joensuu, Finland, being specially invited as guest professor in frames of an International Study Programme in English: «Karelia, Russia and the Baltic Area»),1999;
4) Cyrillic Palaeography (26-hours course in English for those studing the history of Russia and Karelia as well as for students of Russian, has been teached at the University of Joensuu, Finland), 2001;
5) An Introduction to the Auxiliary Historical Disciplines: Cyrillic Palaeography, Metrology, Water Marks’ and Calendar’ Studies (48-hours annual basic course in Russian for the Second year students, Faculty of History, PetrSU), 2001 — present;
History of Russia: from Christianization to the Revolution (26-hours course of lectures for International group of students at the University of Joensuu (Finland), as guest professor in frames of an International Study Programme in English: «Karelia, Russia and the Baltic Area»), 2006.
Cultural History of Karelia (20-hours course of lectures in English for International group of students at the University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu), as guest professor in frames of an International Study Programme in English: «Karelia, Russia and the Baltic Area»), 2011.

Main Publications

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4) Chair of the Session at the 1-st World Congress of Environmental History  (WCEH 2009) Copenhagen (Denmark), August of 2009: Session 10.8: Karelia as an object of governmental good intentions towards natural and human environment in the retrospect (see: http://wceh2009.org/)

5) Chair of the Session at the 6-st ESEH Conference Encounters of Sea and Land  Turku (Finland), June of 2011: Session S64 Imprint of traditional agriculture on boreal landscape surrounding vanished communities in the Kostomuksha State Nature Reserve, Russian Karelia (see: http://eseh2011.utu.fi/wp-content/uploads/eseh2011-programme-and-abstracts-2011-6-27.pdf)

6) Chair of the Session at the IX Congress of Ethnographers and Anthropologists of Russia Petrozavodsk (Russian Federation), July of 2011: Session “Traditional peasants’ family on the North and North-West of Russia in the context of present-day paradigm of research” within the Symposium “Family. Society. Law”  (see: http://www.krc.karelia.ru/event.php?id=145)