Profile: Gregory Tokarev

I want to write about scientific activities of Head of the Department of Documentation and Stylistics of the Russian language, professor, doctor of philology - Gregory Tokarev.

Education: 1989-1994 - Tula State Pedagogical Institute Leo Tolstoy, a teacher of Russian language and literature, graduated from TSPU ‘Lev Tolstoy’, 1994-1997 graduate student of Russian language and methodology. 2000-2003 - Volgograd State Pedagogical University, PhD, Department of General and Russian linguistics.

His achievements are hard to list. Professor Tokarev worked on the training of Russian teachers in Yerevan with the support of the "Russian World"; participated in the regional forum of young Russian language teachers to support the Russian language as the basis for the development of integration processes in the CIS in Minsk. He also worked in the Tajik National University conducting training courses in scientific seminar in conjunction with the Moscow State University Mikhail Lomonosov. His workshops were part of complex of scientific and methodological activities devoted to the problems of teaching Russian as a foreign language in India, Mumbai.

The professor, I took a short interview:

- Gregory, what discipline you teach?

- My Disciplines: culture of speech, modern Russian literary language, linguistics, stylistics, cultural linguistics, semiotics.

- What is the scientific field of activity?

- Research activities: theoretical and applied aspects of cultural communication.

- What scientific works you have already published?

- I am the author of 130 scientific papers, 10 practical manuals in Russian language and linguistics, in word formation and morphology of the modern Russian language, semiotics.

Member of broadcasts on the problems of speech culture, leadership experience (Chair), experience abroad (Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Germany, Tajikistan, India). Chairman of the organizing committee of international conferences.

-Did you take part in research projects?

Since 2010 I am one of the main organizers of Tolstoy's readings - the international conference held in TSPU Leo Tolstoy once every two years for the past 50 years. To conduct Tolstoy’s readings I received grants from the Russian Humanitarian Foundation in 2012. There was also short-term business trips abroad for the purpose of teaching Russian as a foreign language to Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Germany, Tajikistan, India.

I should add that Gregory has initiated and edited a monthly student faculty newspaper "Boiling Point", which is available in print and online since 2008. He is the editor of a collection of creative works by students and faculty of Russian Philology and Documentation "In Search of the genre," which is scheduled to be published. Every two years, he directs the regional student readings of Tolstoy, and annually – a competition of professional pedagogical skills "Russian word." He is also a member of broadcasts on the problems of the culture of speech, the chairman of the organizing committee of international conferences.

       

                                                             Yesina Christina