Administration
Nana Tsikhelashvili, Associate Professor and Director of the School in Russia. Ph.D. (Kandidat nauk) in History (History of Russian-American Relations), Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), 1998. Ms. Tsikhelashvili joined the School in Russia in 1997. Her previous experience includes work with the Russian State Archives, Russian Television, the American Collegiate Consortium (USIA-supported exchange program administered through Middlebury College) in Moscow, and part-time teaching American History to Russian students at RSUH. Nana most recently served as the Assistant Director.
Leonid Andrulaitis, Program Assistant. MA, Irkutsk State University, Journalism. Leonid studied at Middlebury College as an exchange student (2000-2001 academic year). In 2006-2007 he worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Russian Department. In the summer of 2008 he worked for the Middlebury Russian summer school as a bilingual assistant. In Russia Leonid has had many jobs as a journalist and as an editor. His primary interest in his journalistic work is music.
Adrien Smith, Resident Coordinator, Russian State University for the Humanities. BA, Wellesley College, Russian Language and Literature; M.Phil. University of Cambridge, European Literature. Adrien's interest in Russia began on a biology research course at Lake Baikal. After college she lived on the Kola Peninsula on a Fulbright grant, studying Atlantic salmon conservation and participating in winter mountaineering expeditions to the Sub-polar Urals, the Khibini Mountains, and the Tuva Repiblic. Adrien's graduate studies recently gave her the opportunity to return to Siberia, where she led an expedition that studied old-growth forests in the central-Siberian taiga.
Megan Corrigan, Resident Coordinator, Yaroslavl State University. BA, Macalester, Russian. MA, Johns Hopkins. This will be Megan's fourth year in Yaroslavl, and she has also worked in Moscow, Vladimir, Ryazan, Novosibirsk, and St. Petersburg. Her most exciting random Russian experience to date was giving Bill Clinton a tour of Novodevichy Cemetery in 1996. She swears it was just an innocent tour and that absolutely nothing else happened.
Elisabeth Kruger, Resident Coordinator, Irkutsk State University. BA, Grinnell College, Russian. Elisabeth spent her first year in Irkutsk researching Siberian folk theatre on a Fulbright grant, and is glad to have stayed on to join Middlebury as Resident Coordinator for the past two years. She is active in theatre and music, and loves to spend time in the great Siberian wilderness.
Faculty
Irkutsk State University
Elena Nikolaevna ISCHENKO. Senior Instructor, History Department. Kandidat, Irkutsk State University. She has been teaching foreign students for four years. Courses taught to Middlebury students: spetskurs in Post-Soviet History, spetskurs in History of Siberia.
Olga Vladimirovna KICHATINOVA. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign students. Kandidat, St. Petersburg University. Twenty years experience teaching foreign students, including eleven with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Russian Culture and Civilization.
Lyudmila Semenovna LAPSHINA. Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign students. More than fifteen years experience teaching foreign students, including six years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Praktika Rechi (Written and Oral Speech).
Olga Vladimirovna MURAN. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign students. Kandidat, St. Petersburg State University. More than twenty years experience teaching foreign students, including five years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Advanced Russian Grammar; Syntax and Stylistics, Russian Culture.
Alexandra Vladimirovna POPOVA. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. More than thirty years of experience teaching foreign students, including twelve years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Praktika Rechi (Written and Oral Speech)
Irina Meletievna SHPRAKH. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. More than twenty years of experience teaching foreign students, including eight years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Advanced Russian Grammar, Stylistics(spetskurs)
Galina Innokentievna TUNGUSOVA. Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. Doktor Nauk, Moscow State University. More than twenty-five years of experience teaching foreigners, including twelve years with Americans.
Vladimir Konstantinovch TARNAPOLSKII. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. More than thirty years experience teaching foreign students, including twelve years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: spetskursy in Language of the Mass Media, Contemporary Russian Area Studies, Russian Film.
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Elena Alexandrovna ATLAS. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Five years of experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Praktika Rechi (Written and Oral Speech).
Ludmila Grigorievna BANNIKOVA. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Langauge. Twenty years of experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Advanced Russian Grammar, Syntax and Stylistics.
Elena Vladimirovna KOVALCHUK. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. More than twenty years of experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian Grammar
Natalya Viktorovna KREMLOVA. Instructor. Department of Philology. Diplom, Moscow State University. More than twenty years experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Russian Culture.
Maya Anatolyevna VOLCHKEVICH. Instructor. Kandidat, Moscow State University, Department of philology. Taught in different universities in Russia, UK, and USA. Course taught to Middlebury students: Russian Cultural Studies: Language, Culture, Mentality.
Natalia Vladimorovna SHATINA. Associate Professor , Department of History, Political Science and Law. Kandidat, Russian State University for the Humanities. Course taught to Middlebury students: Modern History and Contemporary Politics.
Valentina Yakovlevna TRUFANOVA. Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. More than twenty-five years of experience teaching foreigners. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Phonetics, spetskurs in Language of the Arts.
Olga Ivanovna YASTREBOVA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. Kandidat, Moscow State Linguistics University. More than twenty years of experience teaching foreigners. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Phonetics.
Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University
Irina Vitalievna BORISENKO. Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogy. Kandidat, Moscow State Pedagogical University. Ten years experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Intermediate and Advanced Russian Grammar, Advanced Russian Syntax, spetskurs in Stylistics and Syntax.
Svetlana Yurievna RODONOVA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology. Kandidat, Dotsent, Dekan of Department of Russian Philology, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. Eight years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Intermediate and Advanced Russian Grammar, Written Russian, Language of the Mass Media, Russian Culture and Civilization.
Irina Viktorovna SHUSTINA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology. Kandidat, Dotsent, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. Eight years of experience teaching Middlebury students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian Language and Speech Culture, Russian Film.
Olga Ivanovna ZATSEPINA. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science (Yaroslavl Academy of Labor and Social Relations). Kandidat, Yaroslavl State University. Over ten years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Modern History and Contemporary Politics.
Larisa Vladimirovna UKHOVA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology. Kandidat, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Patterns of Advanced Russian Discourse, Written Russian.
Elena Alievna ASTAKHOVA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology. Kandidat, Moscow State University. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian Cultural Studies, Russian Literature.
Antonina Victorovna OZEROVA. Senior Instructor, Department of History. Has taught Russian as a foreign language since 1982. Author of several Russian as a Foreign Language textbooks. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Advanced Grammar.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich YEREMIN. Instructor, Department of History. Kandidat nauk in History. Graduate of YGPU. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian History