In 1983 I graduated from the Foreign Languages Faculty, Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute, with the major in “the Teacher of German and English Languages”.

In 2005 I was awarded the PhD in Foreign Languages Teaching. The thesis “Intercultural Foreign language communication Teaching to Junior Schoolchildren ” was defended in the Tambov State University.

In 2002 I joined the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU). Since 2007 I’m responsible for Academic and Scientific work of the German Language Department of TPU.