I conduct international, including Jewish heritage genealogical research across the entire territories of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I can also work in the Baltic states and EU countries such as Poland, Germany, Austria and France.
Before doing military service, I traveled extensively, backpacking in more than thirty countries. In 2003 I graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University Department of History, Sub-Department of Ethnology. In 2002 I accomplished an internship in the Moscow Office of The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR 2002), before doing an internship in Dushanbe in the Office of The International Organization for Migration (IOM-MOM Tajikistan 2002).
From 1999 till 2002 I worked for Russia’s most popular TV show Zhdi Menya ('Wait for Me'), which reunites families broken apart by finding missing relatives. Over three years of my work, I mannered found more than 200 people. For our work “Wait For Me” was awarded a “TEFFI”, the highest award in Russian television.
I have worked as a genealogist since 2009 and am registered with the Moscow Tax Service as an independent businessman. Since this time I have carried out more than 450 research projects, with a high degree of success.
Since the beginning of my work I start archive access right activism and archive protection aсtivism. Access to the Russian archives is still heavily restricted and, sad to say, has become worse since the beginning of Russian-Ukrainian conflict. On the other side, archives are very poorly maintained, a problem that needs more public attention.