Academic background

 Dates 1987- 1989

Title of qualification awarded Philologist

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Faculty of Philology

Name and type of organisation providing education and training Leningrad State University

Dates 1978

Title of qualification awarded Interpreter

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered Interpreters Department

Name and type of organisation providing education and training Gorky State Institute of Foreign Languages named of N.A. Dobrolubov

• Since September 2013 – Head of department of Indian-Iranian and African Languages, the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies of the Kazan Federal University;
• 2011-2013 - Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations of the Kazan Federal University;
• Since June 2011 - Vice-Rector for International Relations of the Kazan Federal University;
• 2009 - 2010 - Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;
• 2007 - 2009 - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan;
• 2005 - 2007 - First Deputy Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of Tatarstan;
• 1994 - 2005 - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan / Senior Expert at Trade Representation of the Russian Federation in the USA (Washington, D.C.);
• 1991 - 1994 - Aide to the Prime-Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan on Foreign Economic Issues;
• 1980 - 1991 - Lecturer at the Department of English at Kazan State University;
• 1978 - 1980 - military service at the USSR Armed Forces in Congo (Brazaville)