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Anastasiia Ryko is an Associate Professor of Russian Language at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities, affiliated with the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures. Her career includes roles as an Associate Professor at Saint-Petersburg State University (2018–2020) and prior teaching/research posts in Russia and Estonia. She holds a Doctorate in Linguistics (1999) from the Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS, focusing on Indo-European verbal conjugation in Northwest Russian dialects.
Her research centers on Russian dialectology, sociolinguistics, and Slavic language studies. Key interests include border dialects (e.g., Russian-Belarusian), Old Believers’ language preservation, historical linguistics, and corpus development. She led projects like creating content for a bilingual website on Old Believers’ language/culture (2024) and analyzing the Khislavichi dialect’s genitive case usage. Recent publications explore dialect variation, language contact, and sociolinguistic aspects of speech corpora.
Ryko has contributed to interdisciplinary studies linking language to culture and history. She actively collaborates on digital initiatives documenting endangered dialects and has participated in international conferences on Slavic linguistics. Her work emphasizes fieldwork, archival research, and computational methods in linguistic analysis.
