2004 - Awarded Academic Degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences in Comparative-Historic, Typoliogical and Contrastive Linguistics;

1999 - 2001 - Tomsk State Teachers Training University. Postgraduate Training Programme in Comparative Historic, Typoliogical and Contrastive Linguistics. Dissertation Title: “Pragmalinguistic Peculiarities of Political Discourse Structure (Comparative Analysis of British and Russian News Interviews)”;

1980 – 1985 – Tomsk State Teachers Training Institute. Higher Education Certificate. Major in English and German. Teacher of English and German Teaching

1998 – present (external part-timer): Department of Contemporary Languages, Institute of International Education and Language Communication, Tomsk Polytechnic University. Teach “Conference Interpreting”, “Oral Practice”, “Consecutive Interpreting”, “Second Foreign Language” (English), “Translation Practice”, ”Regional Industry Language”, “Administration Management Language”, advice students’ graduate qualification work Professional experience 2004 – Present – Associate Professor of Contemporary Languages Department, the Institute of International Education and Language Communication, Tomsk Polytechnic University 1998 - 2004 - Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Tomsk Polytechnic University. Simultanously September 2009 – October 2011 - Interpreter / Translator. Later, Property and Equipment Delivery Control Manager at URS Representative office, USA, the city of Sergiyev Posad, Moscow region. Work under the joint US – Russian Project; February 2005 – September 2009 – Interpreter / Translator and later a Functional Coordinator under the US – Russian Project of Weapons Grade Plutonium Elimination in the city of Seversk, Tomsk region.