Senior Researcher, Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD)
Department of Ethnography
Research interests: Scientific interests: ethnic ecology of Siberia; ethnocultural landscape studies; historical memory of rural local communities; environmental aspects of religious beliefs and ritual practices; problems of agrarian modernization of the Siberian region; traditional rituals of Russian old-timers and settlers of Siberia
PhD dissertation theme: “Age symbolism in the calendar rites and customs of the Eastern Slavs (based on materials from Western Siberia of the 19th – early 20th centuries)” (1998)