1963-1973

Studied at School #11 (Voronezh), specializing in chemistry.

1973-1978

Studied English Language and Literature at Voronezh State University (Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology). Individual Specialization Track in French Philology. Graduated with Honors.

Graduation Paper: General Tendencies in the Development of Analytical Formations.

1980-1983 

Studied General Linguistics in a post-graduate course at Leningrad University (under the guidance of Prof. Yu.S.Maslov), PhD in Philology (kandidat filologicheskikh nauk).

Candidate (PhD) Thesis: Analytical Formations with Perfective Meaning (in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian).

1988-1991

Collaboration with the Center for Innovative Learning (Vladivostok–Voronezh–StPetersburg).

Joint development (in co-authorship with V.V.Milashevich) of a course of reading and translating from five languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian).

1988-2002

Collaboration with the SIGNUM Center (StPetersburg) and the MILGRED ® Center (Moscow) in developing teaching technologies following the method of V.V.Milashevich.

Lectures in StPetersburg, Voronezh, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Rybinsk a.o.

1993, June-August

IREX summer language teaching course participant at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)

1993-1996

Post-doctoral research in General Linguistics at StPetersburg University (under the guidance of Prof.Ye.D.Panfilov), Doctor of Philology (doktor filologicheskikh nauk).

Doctorate Thesis: Continual-Discontinual Principle in Universal Functional Grammar.

1998, October-November 
1999, May-June 
1999, October-November

Visiting professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Collaborative research with Hannele Dufva, Mika Lähteenmäki, Sari Pöyhönen and others.

Lecturing at the University of Helsinki

1978-2002

ELT, linguistics and communication theory at Voronezh State Technical University, department chief in 1988-2002, professor.

Since September, 2002

Department of the Theory of Translation and Intercultural Communication at Voronezh State University, Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology. Lecture Courses: Introduction into Intercultural Communication Theory; American Values and National Identity; Discourse; Text Analysis for Translation; History of Linguistics; Contrastive Linguistics; Naive Language Theories and Language Science.