Growing up in Krasnodar, a city in the South of Russia, I moved to Moscow to pursue my studies at the History department of the Moscow State University. After simultaneously graduating from the MSU and Collège Universitaire Français de Moscou in 2011, I moved to Paris, where I completed an intersdisciplinary Master program in social sciences at École normale supérieure.

From 2014 to 2019, I worked on my doctoral dissertation at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. I defended it at the University of Amsterdam in September 2019. My dissertation explored continuity and change in the Russian and Soviet penal practices from 1879 to 1953, with a particular focus on the emergence of labour camps. A book resulting from it, Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2024 and is now also available in paperback. It has been reviewed in The Russian Review and Europe-Asia Studies. 

Between February 2020 and January 2026, I was involved in the ERC-funded project ZARAH: Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century, based at the Central European University. As a postdoctoral researcher within this project, I explored the world of women labour activists in Poland and internationally. The major outcome of the project, an innovative collaborative monograph Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A new transnational history, was published in 2025 by UCL Press and is available in open access. I was also fully responsible for the coordination and creation of the project’s public history website, Women’s Labour Activism, including curating and creating the entirety of its content.

I investigate social history of Russia and Eastern Europe through the lens of global labour history, with a particular focus on labour coercion and (im)mobility.