Research interests: ethnography and folklore of the Russian people in Siberia, Belarusian and Ukrainian settlers of Siberia, interethnic interaction, local and ethnocultural groups, East Slavic ethnic culture, traditional customs and rituals, traditional costume, food, medicine, folk toponymy, mapping in ethnography
PhD thesis: “Clothes of the Russian population of Altai in the second half of the XIX – early XX century.” (1987), scientific adviser – academician A.P. Derevianko.
Doctoral dissertation: “Calendar rituals of the East Slavic peoples in the Ob, Baraba and Kulunda: intercultural interactions and transformations of the first third of the 20th century” (2004).