Introducing Svalbard Studies

Leonid S. Chekin; Andrei Rogatchevski

doi:10.7557/13.4990

Authors

Leonid S. Chekin AIRO-XXI Research Centre https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4408-5504
Andrei Rogatchevski UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3326-8719

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4990

Keywords:

Svalbard, Svalbard Studies, Area Studies

Author Biographies

Leonid S. Chekin, AIRO-XXI Research Centre

Doctor of Geographical Sciences (the Russian Academy of Sciences), Leading Research Associate at the AIRO-XXI Research Centre (Moscow). Latest publications: An edition of notes about Russia by the Danish linguist Rasmus Rask (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 2018) and “A Russian Discovery in the Arctic Ocean at the Time of Columbus”, Nordlit 39 (2017).

Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

PhD in Slavonic Languages and Literatures, Professor in Russian Literature and Culture, Department of Language and Culture, UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Latest major publication: A War of Songs: Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations (2019, co-authored with Hansen, Steinholt and Wickström).

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