Since June 2017 – Junior Researcher of the Caucasus Department at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, Russia
Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Anthropology (Ethnology) / Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg (2017). Thesis: The World Transformation Projects in New Religious Movement Anastasia: Anthropological Aspects of New Age Religion in Contemporary Russia (in Russian)
M. A./ European University at St. Petersburg, Department of Anthropology (2010). Subject: Cultural Anthropology. Thesis: The Project of Kin’s Domain in the Anastasian Community (in Russian)
B. A./ St Petersburg State University, Department of Philosophy (2006). Subject: Religious Studies. Thesis: The Pilgrimage to Saint Serafim of Sarov: Some Religious and Secular Aspects (19th–early 20th Centuries) (in Russian)