Andrian Vlakhov
- Director
- Senior Lecturer: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Deputy Head: Faculty of Humanities / Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory
- Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies / Laboratory of Linguistic Conflict Resolution Studies and Contemporary Communicative Practices
- Andrian Vlakhov has been at HSE University since 2018.
Education
European University in St Petersburg
St Petersburg State University
St Petersburg State University
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2013–2016: PhD program in Anthropology at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
2016: Visiting Research Fellowship, Lapin Yliopisto / University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland)
2013: Visiting Research Fellowship, Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki, Finland)
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2019–2024
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2019–2020)
Professional Associations Membership
2017 – present: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
2014 – present: International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)
2013 – present: Association of Polar Early Career Researchers (APECS)
Field Research
2008–2024: Barents Region, Russian North and European Arctic (Murmansk and Arkhangelsk Oblasts, Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Nenets Okrug, northern Norway, Finland and Sweden)
2022: Kamchatka Krai (Bystrinsky District)
2014–2019: Svalbard archipelago (Barentsburg, Pyramiden, Longyearbyen, Ny-Ålesund)
2016–2017: urban fieldwork for Strelka bureau (Vladivostok, Kaliningrad, Saransk, Yaroslavl, St. Petersburg, Moscow)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Anthropology of Migration (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Linguistics, field of study Cultural Studies; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
- Anthropology of Migration (Mago-Lego; 4 module)Rus
- Anthropology of Regions (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
- Anthropology of Regions (Mago-Lego; 4 module)Rus
- Arctic Social Studies and Humanities (Optional course (university); 1, 2 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Folklore of the peoples of Russia and neighbouring countries (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Rus
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Linguistic Anthropology (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study History, field of study History; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Linguistic Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Cultural Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Linguistic Anthropology (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Linguistic Conflict (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Linguistic Conflict (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar Cultural Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar Cultural Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Methods of Cultural Studies (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Methods of Cultural Studies (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Modern Social Anthropology (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Rus
- Research Seminar «Current Problems in Cultural Anthropology» -2 (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Topics of Modern Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Topics of Modern Linguistics (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Arctic Social Studies and Humanities (Optional course (university); 1, 2 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Linguistic Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Cultural Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Linguistic Anthropology (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Linguistic Conflict (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Linguistic Conflict (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Modern Social Anthropology (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics at School" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Topics of Modern Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Topics of Modern Linguistics (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Arctic Social Studies and Humanities (Optional course (university); 1, 2 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Ethnolanguage Diversity of Russia (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Fieldwork Research Methods and Qualitative Analysis in Social Sciences and Humanities (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3 module)Rus
- Introduction to Linguistics (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1 module)Eng
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Language Policy (Mago-Lego; 1-4 module)Rus
- Linguistic Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Linguistic Anthropology (Mago-Lego; 2, 3 module)Eng
- Linguistic Conflict (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Linguistic Conflict (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Master Classes of Guest Professors (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Modern Social Anthropology (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Linguistics at School" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Topics of Modern Linguistics (Mago-Lego; 1-3 module)Rus
- Topics of Modern Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Linguistic Anthropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Linguistic Conflict (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Language Policy and Language Management" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Introduction to Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Linguistic Antropology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Linguistic Conflict (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Modern social anthropology (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mythology, folklore and folk art of the peoples of Russia and neighboring countries (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2024
Arctic Congress 2024 and International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences XI (Будё). Presentation: “Our Mother Tongue IIs What’s in the Documents”: Creating and Furthering Inequalities through the Russian Indigenous Peoples Registry
Arctic Congress 2024 and International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences XI (Будё). Presentation: ”L'Arrivée d'un train”? Reinventing Railroad Infrastructures in the Russian Arctic
International conference GLOBALISING SOCIOLINGUISTICS 3: LANGUAGE AND INEQUALITY (Tallinn). Presentation: “Our Mother Tongue Is What’s in the Documents”: Creating and Furthering Linguistic Inequalities through the Russian Indigenous Peoples Registry
XX научная конференция «Бубриховские чтения: традиции и новации в исследовании финно-угорских языков и культур» (Петрозаводск). Presentation: Дискурс о языковом сдвиге в карельских сообществах: как говорить и что делать
Родной и иностранные языки в поликультурном пространстве (Сургут). Presentation: Языковой сдвиг и трансформация идентичности в сообществах европейской части российской Арктики: сравнительный анализ стратегий социокультурной адаптации
Социокультурные трансформации в сообществах Севера и Арктики (Москва). Presentation: Трансформация социоэкономического ландшафта российско-скандинавского приграничья в кризисный период: рождает ли сон разума чудовищ?
- 2023
XV Конгресс антропологов и этнологов России (КАЭР 2023) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Трансфер технологий в диаспоральных оленеводческих сообществах российской Арктики: конструирование традиции и отношение к инновациям
XV Конгресс антропологов и этнологов России (КАЭР 2023) (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Динамика этноязыкового разнообразия в Арктике в контексте новейших изменений законодательства РФ о языке: вызовы и стратегии преодоления
22nd Annual Aleksanteri Conference "Decolonizing space in the Global East: Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices" (Хельсинки). Presentation: Indigenous Peoples Registry in Russia: Return of Essentialism or "the Prison of Peoples"?
- 2022
Малые языки в большой лингвистике (Москва). Presentation: Коми свой, коми чужой: языки и идентичности в Ижемском районе Республики Коми
Малые языки в большой лингвистике (Москва). Presentation: «Долго будет карельский нам сниться»: функциональная смерть карельского языка в Карелии
XXIII Ясинская (Апрельская) международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (XXIII ЯМНК) (Москва). Presentation: Динамика идентичности и трансграничные контакты в российско-скандинавском арктическом пограничье в постиндустриальный период
Arctic Frontiers 2022 (Тромсё). Presentation: Changing Svalbard: Tracing Interrelated Socioeconomic and Environmental Change in Remote Arctic Settlements
Новый диалог в антропологии: особенности поля в академическом и аборигенном дискурсах (Москва). Presentation: Язык или человек? Столкновение лингвистических и антропологических подходов в северном поле
9th Summer Neurolinguistics School 2022 "Experimental Studies of Russia’s Ethnic Languages" (Москва). Presentation: Multilingualism in the Izhma Komi community and some reflections on (linguistic) experiments in anthropology
XII Сибирские чтения «Ресурсы Арктики и Сибири: техники, технологии, жизнеобеспечение» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: (Не)прибытие поезда: угасание и переизобретение железнодорожной инфраструктуры в дискурсивных стратегиях жителей Арктики
XIX научная конференция «Бубриховские чтения: языки и культуры в эпоху цифровизации» (Петрозаводск). Presentation: Проект НИУ ВШЭ «Этноязыковой ландшафт российского Севера» в Карелии: предварительные итоги и вклад в сохранение культурно-языкового наследия
- 2021
XIV Конгресс антропологов и этнологов России (Томск). Presentation: Языковая ситуация и языковая политика в Карелии: локальные практики в условиях законодательной неопределённости
XIV Конгресс антропологов и этнологов России (Томск). Presentation: Динамика идентичности в российско-скандинавских контактных зонах в Арктике в постиндустриальный период
- 2020
Архипелаг Шпицберген: от terra nullius к территории взаимодействия. К 100-летию со дня подписания Шпицбергенского трактата (Архангельск). Presentation: Российские поселки на Шпицбергене в постиндустриальную эпоху: структура сообщества и стратегии развития
XХ Международная школа-конференция по фольклористике и культурной антропологии (Переславль-Залесский). Presentation: Север и Арктика в современном российском публичном дискурсе: конструирование и функционирование идентичности
Вторая школа-конференция по уралистике (Москва). Presentation: Стратегии языковой ревитализации в Республике Карелия в новейший период (по материалам полевых исследований 2019–2020 гг.)
- 2019
Arctic Frontiers 2019: Smart Arctic (Тромсё). Presentation: Online at the world's end: how the advancing telecom technologies impact Svalbard communities
Arctic Science Summit Week 2019 (Архангельск). Presentation: Post-industrial development of Russian mining towns in Svalbard: a community study
XI Сибирские чтения «Энергия Арктики и Сибири: ресурсы, технологии, инфраструктура» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Арктические моногорода в российско-скандинавском приграничье: особенности локальной идентичности и функционирования индустрии
Svalbard Science Conference (Осло). Presentation: Post-industrial development of Russian mining towns at Svalbard: a community study
Arctic-FROST Early Career Reunion Meeting 2019 (Сидар-Фолз). Presentation: Resource extraction in the Russian-Nordic borderland: how the Arctic extractive companies develop sustainable approaches
Transculturality in Eastern and Western Contexts (Трир). Presentation: На краю Европы: русско-скандинавские культурно-языковые связи в постсоветскую эпоху
- 2018
NSF Arctic-FROST Annual Conference: Co-constructing Sustainability in the Arctic: Collaboration among regional and local governments, Indigenous organizations and researchers in sustainable development in the Arctic (Juneau, AK). Presentation: Challenges of post-industrial tourism development in the Arctic company towns: the case of Barentsburg, Svalbard
- 2017
17th Annual Aleksanteri Conference Russia’s choices for 2030 (Helsinki). Presentation: Resource extraction in the Russian-Nordic borderland: how the Arctic extractive companies develop sustainable approaches
International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences IX (ICASS IX) (Умео). Presentation: Symbolic boundaries in the borderless space: mobility and telecommunication in Svalbard
International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences IX (ICASS IX) (Умео). Presentation: Barentsburg, a Russian town in Svalbard: new input for Arctic social science?
International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences IX (ICASS IX) (Умео). Presentation: Barentsburg, a Russian town in the Norwegian land: from decay to success
Svalbard and the Humanities (Tromsø). Presentation: Russian Settlements on Svalbard in Transition: A Longitudinal Community Study (2013-17)
- 2016
16th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference: Life and Death in Russia (Helsinki). Presentation: When Wars Go North: Refugee Crisis in the Russian Arctic
24th World Congress of Political Science of International Political Science Association (IPSA) (Познань). Presentation: When Ice Thickens: Cross-Border Cooperation Between Russian and Norwegian Arctic Communities in the New Political Conditions
Arctic Circle Assembly (Рейкьявик). Presentation: The 2014–2016 Refugee Flows in the Russian Arctic: How the Global Impacts the Local
Employment history
Has been at HSE since 2018.
2014–2017: Junior Research Fellow, European University at St. Petersburg, Dept. of Anthropology
2016 – present: Associate Research Fellow, RAS Institute of Sociology
‘The Northern Sea Route Is an Efficient Transport Communication Channel to Deliver Goods Sold on Trade Platforms’
The Northern Sea Route has a key role to play in developing Russia's export potential in the Asia-Pacific region. As the current situation requires a reorientation of export flows from Europe to Asia, this route is taking on a new significance in the search for effective transport communication with Indian and Chinese markets. An Arctic Research session was held at the XXIII Yasin International Academic Conference.
Discovering Russia from the Inside and Out
At the end of February, the HSE IGITI Research Centre for Contemporary Culture hosted a roundtable entitled ‘Field Studies in Russia: A Country Familiar and Foreign’. Roundtable participants talked about field work methods and standards, research challenges, and ways to solve them. The participants also discussed the extent to which it is possible to apply international experiences and approaches to field work in Russia as well as ways to study Russia from within and without.
Night Descends upon HSE at Pokrovka
HSE University hosted its long-awaited student festival ‘Night’ at its building on 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard Thursday. Featuring 12 hours of lectures, games, master classes, music, and conversation. It was a night no students, lecturers or guests had any time for sleep.