Andrey Nikolaevich Sobolev

Born 13 July 1965, Leningrad, USSR

• Slavicist and Balkanologist
• Candidate of philological sciences (PhD, USSR, 1991)
• Doctor habilitatus (Germany, 1997)
• Doctor of philological sciences (Russia, 1998)
• chief researcher at the Institute for Linguistic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg
• Professor of Balkan Linguistics (2007–2019) and Professor of Slavic Linguistics (2015–2019) at St. Petersburg State University, Philological Faculty
• extranumeral Professor at the University of Marburg, Germany (from 2003)