Elena Sergeevna Aleshkevich

Historian and Archivist. Graduation in 2004 from the Russian State University for the Humanities RGGU in Moscow. 2006 MA programme for Eastern European Studies at RGGU. 2004 - 2006 scientific collaborator with the Russian State Funds for Humanities, Department of History. 2005 and 2006 scientific collaborator with the North-Caucasian Archeological Expedition (NCAE) in the Krasnodarskiy region. Since 2007 freelancing expert for international clients on topics of late soviet history and transformation periode in former soviet countries. Together with A.A.S. member Gerti Eilmsteiner-Saxinger and Prof. Heinz Fassmann (Department for Geography and Spatial Research at the Universtity of Vienna) as project leader, she currently works out a three years research project, looking interdisciplinarily on selected aspects of vakhtovyj metod (fly-in/fly-out shift work) in oil and gas industry in the Former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. In February 2008 she took part in Gerti´s field-research in the Jamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in north western Siberia in order to elaborate historical dimensions of vakhtovyj metod. Research interest: late soviet and russian history in context of regional development of the North, labour force and, migration as well as transformation processes in post-socialist societies.

Scientific Education

1999 - 2004 Russian State University for the Humanities RGGU, Moscow, History Archival Studies

2006 Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, MA programme Eastern Europe Autumn

Languages

Russian (mothertongue)
English (fluent)
German (intermediate learner)

Publications

Aleshkevich, E. "Rol' Rossijskogo gosudarstvennogo nauchnogo fonda v rasvitii arheologii I arheografii: organisazionnye I metodologicheskie problemy" In: Vestnik Rossiyskogo gosudsrstvennofo nauchnogo fonda, 2006, N3. P. 126-154. ["The role of Russian State Funds for Humanities in the Development Archeology and Archeography: Organisational and Methodological Problems" In: Russian State Fond for Humanities Bulletin (in Russian)] This chapter is based on her diploma thesis at the RGGU Moscow with the same title.
Niederberger/Stadlmayr/Eilmsteiner-Saxinger/Aleshkevich/Lentner "Bildungsstruktur am Schwarzen Meer". Institut für Berufs- und Erwachsenenbildungsforschung an der Universität Linz. pp.108 ["Educational System in the Black Sea Region". Institute for Educational and Vocational Research at the University of Linz (A) (in German)]
Aleshkevich, E. / Eilmsteiner-Saxinger G. "Integrazija Kul'tur: Opyt Jazykovoj Adaptazii". In: Evropejskie Jazyki v Sovremennom Mire: Teorija I Praktika. Monografia/Nauchn. Red. G. A. Dzinda. Moskva: Izd-vo Sputnik. 2008 [Cultural Integration: Experiencing adaptation of languages. In: European Languages in the Contemporary World. Theory and Practice. (in Russian)]
Aleshkevich, E. "I.V. Stalin's Foreign Policy in Prewar Years: Historiographic Aspect, 1995-2001", In: Stalinism in the Soviet Union: New Directions in Western and Russian Research. Moscow, 2004. p. 38-46. (in English) This chapter is based on a conference paper with the same title presented at: "Stalinism in the Soviet Union: New Directions in Western and Russian Research" at the University of Konstanz, Germany a conference jointly organised by RGGU and University of Konstanz.

Main Research Trips

2005 North-Caucasian archeological expedition (NCAE - 2005). Raevskoe site of ancient settlement (IV B.C- XVIII ), Novorossijask, Krasnodarskiy region. Head of expedition: Aleksey Malyshev, Moscow Archeology Institute of the Russian Academy of Science.

2006 North-Caucasian archeological expedition (NCAE - 2006) - Archeological dig of burial mound in the mounting zone of Western Caucasian (IV - I B.C.), Novorossijask, Krasnodarskiy region. Head of expedition: Aleksey Malyshev, Moscow Archeology Institute of the Russian Academy of Science.

2008 Field Research in Novyj Urengoj, Jamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Exploration of historical aspects of vakhtovyj metod (long-distance shift work).