Head of the Department of Linguistica and Didactica and Intercultural Communication,  Moscow State University of Psychology and Education,  Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Modern Communications and Management, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. Graduated from Dagestan State University. Doctor of Philological Sciences. The topic of the dissertation is “Grammatical categories and grammatical classes of the Rutul language” (2001). Area of scientific interests: intercultural communication, theory of language, modern Russian language, Russian as a foreign language, language typology, system of languages of ergative typology. Author of more than 100 scientific works, including 10 monographs. Author of textbooks and teaching aids on the Rutul language for university and school students. Deputy editor-in-chief of the International Scientific Journal (IAC) “Language and Text”.