Victoria Tevlina

Victoria Tevlina serves as Professor at The Barents Institute, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, specializing in Russian-Norwegian historical relations, Arctic studies, and Northern Sea Route history. Her position reflects deep engagement with cross-border academic collaboration between Russia and Norway.

Her research focuses on Russian-Norwegian relations, Arctic history, and borderland studies, with particular emphasis on the Northern Sea Route's historical development, Russian emigration to Norway, and Siberian exploration narratives. Recent work examines Fridtjof Nansen's Siberian journeys, Scandinavian timber industry in early Soviet Russia, and the Norwegian destinies of Russian émigrés like paleontologist Anatol Heintz.

Tevlina has coordinated major international projects including the comprehensive book From Northeast Passage to Northern Sea Route. A History of the Waterway North of Eurasia published by Brill Academic Publishers (2022), where she served as scientific coordinator and illustration editor. Her publication record shows consistent output in both English and Russian-language academic journals.

She actively supervises students including 4 BA and 3 MA candidates at Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NARFU) in Archangelsk, and provides scientific consultancy for post-doctoral scholars working on Sami people monographs. Her institutional work includes coordination of international seminars on Russian-Norwegian borderlands and participation in ministerial cooperation meetings.

Tevlina's research group activities during the Northern Sea Route project (2015-2023) demonstrate sustained commitment to Arctic historical scholarship. She has served as official expert evaluator for Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science grant applications in social-humanities sectors.