Education
1967 - 1972: Yerevan State University. Philological Faculty, Department of the Russian Language and Literature

Academic degree
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences - “Complex Approach to the Teaching of the Oral Monologue Russian Speech to the Students of Philology”

Professional experience
2003 - till now: Dean of the Faculty of the Russian Philology (YSU)
2000 - 2003: Chief of the Chair of the Russian Language /for natural sciences/ (YSU)
1996 - 2000: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of the Russian Philology (YSU)
2002 - till now: Associate professor of Russian (YSU)
1993 - 2002: Senior Lecturer of Russian (YSU)
1977 - 1993: Senior Lecturer of Russian of the Preparative Faculty Russian for foreign students (YSU)
1972 - 1977: Lecturer of Russian at the Chair of the Russian language of the Yerevan Polytechnic University
1980 - 1984: Lecturer of Russian at the Tribhuvan State University (Katmandu, Nepal)

Academic courses
Morphology of the Modern Russian Language
Methodology of Russian Language Teaching

Scale of professional interests
Russian linguistics
Methodology of Language Teaching

Languages
Armenian, Russian, English

Professional membership
Member of the Scientific Council of YSU
Chief of the Council Faculty of the Russian Philology (YSU)

Awards received
Pushkin Medal
(from the Governement of the Russian Federation): 2007
Movses Khorenatsi medal (from the Government of the Republic jf Armenia)

rusphil@ysu.am