Born on March 21, 1971 in Stavropol, Russian Federation. In 1993, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Rostov State University. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: 5 monographs and 260 scientific articles. WORK EXPERIENCE – From 2011 to the present, Head of the Department of Foreign History, Political Science and International Relations of the North Caucasus Federal University of the Russian Federation. MEMBERSHIP: Member of the A.A. Gromyko Association for Foreign Policy Studies, Member of the Russian Association for European Studies, Member of the Scientific Association of Caucasus Scholars, Chairman of the Dissertation Council in Historical Sciences of the North Caucasus Federal University, Member of the Dissertation Council in Historical Sciences of the Kuban State University, Member of the Dissertation Council in Historical Sciences of the Southern Federal University. Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Humanitarian and Legal Studies" of the North Caucasus Federal University.