Education Background:

M.A.: St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University, Department of Structural and Applied Ling., 1983
Ph.D.: St. Petersburg State U & Institute for Oriental Studies, East Asian Section, 1987

Research Areas:

Japanese and Korean historical linguistics, with emphasis on earliest written languages and prehistory, the Ainu language, Altaic linguistics, the Manchu language, Central Asian Linguistics in general.