Denis Volkov
Address: Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Email: denis.volkov@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD Title: 'Orientalist Scholarship and Foreign Policy in late Tsarist Russia and the early USSR: Russian/Soviet ‘Iranology’ and Russo-Iranian relations (1900-1941)'
Supervisors: Dr. Oliver Bast, Prof. Vera Tolz
Research interests
History of Iran, Russo-Iranian relations, Russian/Soviet foreign policy towards Persia/Iran, Economy of Iran
Membership of professional organisations
BRISMES, ISIS, BIPS, IIEA
Professional biography
- 2006-2010: worked in Tehran as a head of the branch office of a Russian state-owned company
- 1995-2004: worked in Tehran as an interpreter, commercial expert
- BA, MA in Oriental Studies from Moscow State University (Institute of Asian and African countries).