PhD in Philology

Education:
2014–2018: Bachelor's degree from St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Philology, Department of the History of Russian Literature; specialty “Russian philology. Russian language and literature”).
2018–2020: Master's degree from St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Philology, Department of the History of Russian Literature; specialty “Russian literature”).
2020–2023: Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Russian Literature, RAS (specialty 5.9.1 — “Russian literature and literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation”).

PhD thesis:
The Complete Works of A.S. Pushkin as an Academic Problem: Ideas, Concepts, Implementation (1930s–1950s) (2025)

Research interests:
Pushkin studies, textual criticism, history of academic literary studies, intellectual history

Grants and projects:
From Early Writers' Associations to the Organizing Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers: The Genesis of Institutional Forms in Cultural Construction of the RSFSR/USSR (Digital Archive of Documentary Data and Research) (RSF, №25-18-00196, IWL RAS, 2025–2027)
Digital Pushkin (IRL RAS, 2022–2025)
Anna Akhmatova's Autobiographical and Memoir Prose and “Pushkin Studies”: Issues of Textual Criticism and Traditional Practice (RSF, №24-28-01206, IRL RAS, 2024–2025)
S. Pushkin's Critical Prose: Problems of Study and Traditional Practice (RSF, №22-28-01616, IRL RAS, 2022–2023)
Studying Terminological Subsystems of Modern School Textbooks in Russian Using Word2Vec Natural Language Semantics Analysis Models and Neural Networks (RFBR, № 19-29-14032 мк, Herzen State Pedagogical University, 2020–2023)
Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists of the IRL RAS, Member of the Council of Young Scientists of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Academic publications (38 in total, including 1 monograph (in collaboration))

Monograph:

  • “Pushkin Is Ours, He Is Soviet!”: Essays on the History of Philological Science in the Stalin Era (Ideas. Projects. Persons). Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2025. 792 p. (Co-authored with D.M. Tsyganov)

Selected articles and publications (2021–2026):

  • New About Pushkin’s Personal Library. Additions to the Catalog Compiled by Boris Modzalevsky. Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, issue 40, 2026, pp. 5–18. (Co-authored with T.I. Krasnoborod’ko)
  • The Academic Complete Works of Pushkin Between Two Fires: A Memorandum by V.D. Bonch-Bruevich to S.I. Vavilov, publ. by V.V. Turchanenko. Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, issue 40, 2026, pp. 211–235.
  • Anna Akhmatova and the Pushkin Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Literaturnyi fakt, no. 1 (35), 2025, pp. 387–418.  https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2025-35-387-418 (Co-authored with A.Yu. Balakin)
  • On the History of the Nomination of the Academic Edition of the Complete Works of A.S. Pushkin for the Stalin Prize. Codex manuscriptus, issue 5. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 524–552.
  • D.P. Iakubovich’s Unpublished Review of A. A. Akhmatova’s Collection The Rosary, introductory article, preparation of the text and commentary by I.V. Slepkov and V.V. Turchanenko. Russkaia literatura, no. 3, 2024, pp. 115–128.
  • The Unfinished Editorial Work of D.P. Yakubovich (7th “Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii”). Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, issue 38, 2024, pp. 223–240.
  • “I Am Writing a Message in Verse to Sochi...”. Black Sea Postcards by B.V. Tomashevsky and D.P. Yakubovich (Summer 1933). “...And the Line Does not End”: Collection in Honor of M.N. Virolainen. St. Petersburg, Rostok Publ., 2024, pp. 267–297.
  • Pushkin House and the Process of Concentration of Pushkin's Manuscripts in the USSR (1930s–1940s): According to Archival Sources. Russkaia literatura, no. 3, 2023, pp. 5–29. (Co-authored with T.I. Krasnoborod’ko)
  • Anna Akhmatova and Dmitry Yakubovich: To the Portraits of the Pushkin Scholars. “One Magnificent Quote...”: Collection of articles and materials on the 70th anniversary of N.I. Kraineva. Moscow, Azbukovnik Publ., 2023, pp. 245–258.
  • Terminology Use in School Textbooks: Corpus Analysis. Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, vol. 9 (1), 2023, pp. 27–49. (Co-authored with S.I. Monakhov, D.N. Cherdakov)
  • Summarizing Soviet Pushkin Studies: Nikolai Piksanov’s Report at the Pushkin Conference in 1937. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 5 (177), 2022, pp. 119–134.
  • Discussion About the “Pushkin Encyclopedia” in the 1930s. Summer School on Russian Literature, vol. 17, no. 2, 2021, pp. 189–209.

Edited works:

  • Critical and Journalistic Articles by A.S. Pushkin in Literary Studies: Materials for Bibliography, comp. by L.A. Timofeeva, edited by A.Yu. Balakin, V.V. Turchanenko. Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, issue 39, 2025, pp. 38–145.
  • Pushkin as a Critic and Journalist: An Annotated Bibliography of Academic Papers. Part 1. General Works, comp. by L.A. Timofeeva, V.T. Zolotukhin; ed. by A.Y. Balakin, V.V. Turchanenko. Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, issue 38, 2024, pp. 34–113.
  • Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii. Special Issue in Honor of Tatiana Ivanovna Krasnoborodko, ed. by A.Y. Balakin, V.V. Turchanenko, 2023. 230 p.