Dr. Sc. (Pedagogy) (2003), Professor (2005), Honored Worker of Higher Education, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (2010), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education (2017), Scientific Supervisor of the Institute of Humanities of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Education

1975 – graduated from Ivanovo State University, specialty-teacher of the English and German languages.

1975-1976 – Trainee researcher at Leningrad State University

1976-1979 – Postgraduate student of the Philological Faculty at Leningrad State University

1982 – defended PhD thesis in specialty 10.02.04. – Germanic languages.

2003 – defended doctoral dissertation in specialty 13.00.02 (theory and methodology of teaching and upbringing) on the subject of "Cognitive aspects of the formation of intercultural competence in teaching a foreign language in a non-linguistic university"

2005 – academic title of professor.

Work experience

1979-1989 – associate professor of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Leningrad Higher Military School.

1989-1991 – Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Leningrad Higher Command School.

1991-2008 – Head of the Department of English at St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance.

2009-2016 – Head of the Department, Institute of Humanities, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

2015-2022– Director of the Institute of Humanities of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Sphere of Scientific interests

• organization of foreign languages education in university setting (management issues, content aspects of modular courses, formation of communicative and intercultural competence  among university graduates, didactic aspects of organizing students’ self-work, issues of distance education, lifelong learning issues, etc.);

• linguistic and didactic aspects of working out educational resources, professionally-oriented reference literature (dictionaries, glossaries, reference books);

• linguistic and didactic aspects of professionally oriented literature translation;

• culture-oriented technologies in foreign language education;

• designing the humanitarian educational environment at multidisciplinary university.

Nadezhda I. Almazova is the author of numerous works, such as monographs, chapters in collective monographs, international publications, including those indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases, articles in journals included in the list recommended by the RF Higher Attestation Commission (HAC).

Her Hirsch index in RSCI is 18, in Scopus it is 9.

Professor Nadezhda I. Almazova actively participates both in domestic and international conferences. The results of her theoretical research are reflected in a large number of educational and methodological works, including teaching guides, manuals, electronic didactic resources, etc.

Nadezhda I. Almazova is the scientific supervisor of several graduate students applying for a PhD degree, 12 postgraduate students defended their theses under her supervision (one at the doctoral level). She is also an expert in a number of scientific councils that examine the works of applicants for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Pedagogy.

From 2006 to 2022, including periods of rotation, Nadezhda I. Almazova was an expert of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science in the Expert Council on Pedagogy and Psychology. Nadezhda I. Almazova is a member of the editorial board of a number of journals recommended by HAC, both Russian and foreign ones.

"Izvestia: Herzen University Journal of Humanities & Sciences"

https://www.herzen.spb.ru/main/nauka/1297772316/izvestia/EditorialBoard/

"MCU Journal of Philology. Theory of Linguistics. Linguistic Education"

https://vestnik-filologiya-lingvodidaktika.mgpu.ru/red-collegiya/?lang=en

"The Scientific Opinion"

http://en.unipress.pro/page/redacionnaya_kollegiya

Awards

• A medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg" (2003),

• A badge and the title "Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation" (2010),

• The title of "Honored Worker of Higher Education" (2012).

• St. Petersburg Government Award for Outstanding Achievements in the field of higher and secondary vocational education in the nomination "Scientific achievements contributing to improving the quality of training highly qualified specialists and personnel" (2009),

• Russian Government Award for Outstanding Achievements in Education (2012).

In 2017, Nadezhda I. Almazova was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education.