Name

Andrey Zinovyev

Personal information

Date of birth: 20.12.1982

Place of birth: Leningrad (USSR)

Member of the Russian Geographical Society (since 2001)

Member of the Association of Russian Human Geographers (since its inception in 2010)

Education

[2012 – till present] Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Institute for Nature Management, Urban Planning and Territorial Development, Department of Geography, Nature Management and Spatial Development, post-graduate student

[1999 – 2004] Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of geography and geoecology, Department of economic and social geography (specialist's degree, diploma with distinction)

Additional education

[2002-2003]Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of economics, Business school

CRDF Global/Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science Professional Skills Training, January 2014

Summer school of the Center of international and regional policy «Russia, NATO and the EU: Prospects for Trilateral Cooperation» (Losevo, Leningradskaya oblast’), July 2005

Winter school of the Representation of the EU in Russia «Borders and boundaries: global and regional trends» (Petrozavodsk), November 2004

Summer school of the Center of international and regional policy «Future Leaders of Northern Europe» (Petrozavodsk), July 2004

Working experience

[2005 – till present] Saint-Petersburg State University, Institute of Earth Sciences, the Department of regional policy and political geography

Researcher, Senior Lecturer:

Sphere of duties:

1. Giving lectures «Political geography», «Political geography of Russia», «Frontier studies», «Economical, social and political geography of the world», «History of spatial development of Russia», etc.

2. Managing of educational practice for 2^nd-year-students and field practice for master degree students, consultations on term papers of students

3. Organization and carrying out of the department’s scientific seminars

4. Organization and holding conferences

5. Research work (fund rising, realization of projects, including conducting the current documentation on projects, preparation of intermediate and total reports)

[2007-2009] Scientific and Design Institute of Spatial Planning «ENKO»

Urban economist

Sphere of duties:

1.text writing sections of socio-economic issues in analytical and
explanatory notes documents of spatial planning (spatial planning schemes of the Russian Federation subjects and municipalities, masterplans of rural settlements)

2. preparation of socio-economic thematic maps in GIS

3. business trips to Russian regions to collect baseline data and negotiation with the customer

Main Publications

Axenov K., Pleschenko D., Zinovyev A. Big city - region - Russia: dynamics of electoral behavior in the parliamentary elections // Polis. 2005 №2

Zinovyev A. Methods of study of the spatial organization of the political sphere // Socioeconomic geography: history, theory, methods, practice. Smolensk, 2011.

Morachevskaya K., Zinovyev A. Frontier and peripherality as factors of socio-economic development of Russian-Belorussian border regions // Proceedings of the 53rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association "Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy", 27-31 August 2013. Palermo (Italy), 2013

More than 15 publications, among them 2 in peer-reviewed editions.

Grants and main projects

SPbSU grant «Development of conceptual frameworks research on the transformation of territorial-political systems of the former Soviet Union space» (2007-2009), collective research

RFH 08-03-03201 e / P «Peacekeeping Mission of the Russian Federation in the CIS as a basis of the image of Russia in the modern world» (2008), collective research

RFH 09-03-00833 a / P «Development of conceptual frameworks peacekeeping mission of Russia as a basis for the formation of the image of the country in the modern world» (2009-2010б 600 000 RUB), collective research

RFH № 09-02-00637 е/B «Comparative assessment of the impact of cross-border socio-economic development of regions of Russia and Belarus» (2009), collective research

RFH № 10-02-03207 е/Р «Russian regional projects in the field of nuclear energy as a basis for building a new image of the country in Baltic Europe» (2010), collective research

RFH № 10-02-00711 а/B «Border and peripheral factors of socio-economic development of regions of Russia and Belarus» (2010), collective research

SPbSU grant: «The development of innovative educational program for Master degree in a new direction VPO "Regional studies of Russia" Program Priority Areas of St. Petersburg State University 2020» (2011), collective research

Participation in the project “The new models of single-industry towns’ development in Russia” (company “Basic Element”), 2013-2014

Computer skills

MS Office, MapInfo, ArcGIS, Coral Draw, SPSS, Internet, etc.

Foreign languages

English