Professor, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

• Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.
• Associate Professor, Professor Department of Foreign Languages, Yerevan State University, Ijevan Branch.

1968 -1973 Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute of Russian and Foreign Languages named after V. Ya. Bryusov. Specialty: Higher Education, Philology (Russian language and literature) (Yerevan, Armenia).

1977 – 1981 Full-time postgraduate course at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.  Specialty: Pedagogy and teaching methods at the University (Moscow, Russia).

– Thesis «Ways to Overcome Lexico-Semantic Interference While Teaching Use of Polysemy at University Stage»; scientific supervisor: Academician N.M. Shansky, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (USSR).

2015 – Government National Program of the Slovak Republic for the Exchange of Teachers of Higher Scientific Institutions and Universities, International European Doctoral Courses (Bratislava, Slovakia).

2012 -“E-Learning Instructor” online (MESI, Moscow, 2010).

2010 – “Communication Technology Development” (University of Cambridge, Boston, USA).

PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES:

1986 – Diploma of Candidate of Sciences (Pedagogics), Moscow, Russia.

2007 – Associate Professor Diploma, Moscow, Russia.

2008 – Diploma of Professor of Academy of Natural History, Moscow, Russia.

2014, 2019 -University of Kyoto Sangyo (Japan) Diploma for the creation and implementation of the innovative project of the International Virtual Forum in Japan (2019, 2014) and for international cooperation between universities in Japan and Armenia and contribution to the development of education and science, Kyoto, Japan.

2015, 2010, 2011 -Diplomas “Laureate of the Golden Fund of National Science Prize”, Moscow, Russia.

2012 -University of Bologna Diploma “For hosting the World Virtual Congress on Russian Studies and Culture “Planet “Russian Language” in the virtual linguistic-communicative space”, Linguistic Center of the University of Bologna CLA, Forlì, Italy.

2012 – Diploma “Social and Pedagogical Projects in Education” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

2011 – Middlebury University Diploma, “For fruitful cooperation in the education and development of the Russian language and culture between the universities of USA-Armenia-Russia”, Vermont, USA.

Certificates: the participation in the IF in Kazakhstan (2021), in Japan (2019), in South Korea (2018), in Georgia (2017), Turkey (2016), in Spain, in Slovakia and in Germany (2015); in Japan and Belgium (2014); in Poland and Italy (2012) etc.

AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

2017 – Jubilee Medal “For Fidelity in Education and Science” (Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

2015 – Gold medal «European Quality», Germany, Munich.

2009 – Silver Medal after V.I. Vernadsky «For the Success in Development of the National Science», Moscow, Russia.

Gratitude of: the rector of AGPU named after H. Abovyan (2020), Danguk University of IT (2018), MESI (2011), University of Bologna, CLIRO Linguistic Center (2012), Russian Embassy in Armenia (2010), etc.

MEMBERSHIPS:

2018 to present – Chairman of the International Coordinating Council for the project “Creation of a virtual educational space for the intellectual community” (Armenia, Italy, Russia, South Korea, Slovakia, USA, Japan).

2017 to present – Member of the Scientific Editorial Board of the journal “Education and Science», Scopus, ВАК.

2016 to present – Assistant Editor of the Science journal “Cross Cultural Studies: Education and Science”, Middlebury College, USA, WordCat (OCLC), RISC,LetPub, CyberLeninka, DOAJ/Index, ISIFI/Index, OAJI/Index, ROAD/Index, SCC RA/Index,

2016 to present – Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Topics in Linguistics”, Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra, Publisher De Gruyter, Scopus, Web Science.

2016 to present -Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Revista de Etnologie si Culturologie”,DOAJ/Index, ISIFI/Index, OAJI/Index, Scopus

PUBLICATIONS:

Author of more than 180 scholarly articles, monographs, textbooks, manuals, e-format methodological manuals, reports, published both in Armenia and abroad.  Those scholarly works have been published in 24 countries (Poland, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, USA, Argentina, China, India, Spain, Japan, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Moldova, Croatia, Ukraine, South Korea, and Armenia). (ORCID -0000-0001-9301-4927; Author ID: 765 668: 56576171400 Scopus; SPIN-code: 6745-3510).

2012 – 2021 – 13 Education projects. Coordinator project Erasmus+ Project “Modernization of Doctoral Education in Science and Improvement of Teaching Methodologies”

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2021 to present – Ijevan Branch of Yerevan State University, the Department of Foreign Languages.

2019 to present – Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University, Department of Russian and Foreign Languages.

2012 – 2020 – Armenian State Pedagogical University named after Kh. Abovyan, Department of Theory and History of Pedagogics.

2005-2013 – Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI), Department of Humanitarian Sciences.

2001-2005 – The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Program USA, Program manager and trainer– 2001–2005.

1981-2001 – Vanadzor State Pedagogical University, Department of Russian Language and Literature.

– Work experience abroad: Poland, Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Russia, USA, Japan.

LANGUAGES:

– Russian: Native; Armenian: Fluent; English: Fluent; German: Understanding; Slovak: Understanding