Pobedonostseva Kaya Angelika O.

Education:

• 2002. BA Degrees, Saint-Petersburg State Technical University
• 2004. MA Degrees, Saint-Petersburg State Technical University
  
• 2017. Postgraduate studies in Department of History of the Middle East Countries, Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies. PhD thesis (2017): The Kurds in History and Politics of Russia  in the Middle East in the XIX – beginning of the XX cc.

Scientific Research Grant:

• 2009-2010 İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi

Languages:

• Russian
• Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic
• English, German

Professional interests:

• Kurdish history
  
• Russian-Kurdish contacts
• Kurdish diaspora
• historical and cultural contacts of the Kurds with the other ethnic groups of the region
• Kurdish language and dialects
• history of architecture of Muslim countries    

Lectures:

• History of Asian and African countries
• Culture and Ethnography of the Countries of the Muslim East
• Introduction to Kurdish Studies
• The Kurdish Question: History and Modernity
• Kurdish Language (as Second Foreign Language)
• Political Parties and Party Systems of the Countries of the Near and Middle East
• History (Russia and the East)
                                    

Papers:

• Pobedonostseva A.O. Yezidis of Iraq (Russian) // Asia and Africa today, No 2, Moscow, 2010. P. 52-54. 
• Pobedonostseva A.O. Russian Сlassics in Kurdish сulture (Russian) // Petersburg researches, Collection of scholarly articles, No 2, Saint-Petersburg , 2010. P. 68-70.
  
• Pobedonostseva A.O. Kurds in Russian periodicals of the XIX century (Russian) // Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University (Asian and African Studies), No 3, Serie 13, Saint-Petersburg, 2010. P. 14-24.
• Pobedonostseva A.O. The role of the Kurdish Sufi tariqats in the political arena of the XIX century (Russian) // Pax Islamica, No 1-2 (8-9), Moscow, 2012. P. 286-294. 
  
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Di dema Stalîn de polîtîkaya tehcîrê û rewşa Kurdan (Kurdish) // Nûbihar, No 119, İstanbul, 2012. S. 19-24.
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Yezidi-Kurds in Northern-West of Russia: Problem of self identification (Russian) // Herzen readings 2012. Actual problems of social Sciences. Collection of scientific and educational works. Saint-Petersburg, 2013. P. 360-366. 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Kurdish-Armenian relationship from the middle of the XIX century until the First World War on the example of the village of Chengelli (Kagizman, Kars, Turkey) (Russian) // Lavrovskiy sbornik. Materials of the XXXVI and XXXVII Central Asian-Caucasus readings 2012–2013. Ethnology, History, Archeology, Culturology. Saint-Petersburg, 2013. P. 375-380.
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. The Kurds in Turkey: deportation as a method of solving the ethnic conflict in the XIX-XX centuries? (Russian) // Fritillaria Kurdica. Bulletin of Kurdish Studies No 7-8. Institute of Oriental Studies Jagiellonian University, Krakow, December 2014 / March 2015. P. 77-91.
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 in history of Russian-Kurdish relations (Russian) // Vestnik of Orel State University. Seria: New Humanitarian Studies. No 6 (41), Saint-Petersburg, 2014. P. 358-360. 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Missionary activity in the Kurdistan region in the XIX century (Russian) // Russia and World in the End of XIX – first half of ХХ century. Collection of articles to the 85th anniversary of Boris V. Ananich. Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Saint-Petersburg, 2017. P. 125-132.
  
• Sarigoz O., Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O., Abilov I. Appellative forms in Turkish, Kurdish and Talysh languages (Russian) // Sovremennaya nauka. Seria: Humanitarian Studies No 5, Moscow, 2018. P. 169-175. 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Politics and Politicians in Soviet Belarus: The Case of Kiryla Mazurau // The Journal of Belarusian Studies. Volume 8, Number 3, 2018. P. 83-92. 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O.. The First World War and the Russian Empire’s Policy Towards the Kurds: Path Dependence? (Russian) // The current status of the Kurdish question in the Middle East. Materials of the international scientific-practical conference. Russian Association of Young Kurdologs. Moscow, 2018. P. 6-31 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O.. Kurdish Studies and Policy in the USSR through the analysis of the biographies of O.Vilchevsky and F.Rostopchin (Russian) // XXX International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa: On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Academician Vasily V. Barthold (1869–1930). 19–21 June, 2019 / Ed. by Nikolay N. Dyakov, Alexander S. Matveev. St Petersburg: NP-Print Publishers, Vol. 1, 2019. P. 225-226. 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A., Bohdan S. Islamische Revolution in Kurdistan: Zwischen Sektierertum und Ökumenismus // Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien: Religion in Kurdistan, 2019/7. P.63-84. 
• Kirpichenok A.I., Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Erich Brauer: a man behind Israeli Orientalistica (Russian) // Transactions on Jewish Studies History and Ethnography, Issue 16, Jews of the world history, culture and politics. International Academic Conference Proceedings April 26, 2020. St. Petersburg Institute Of Jewish Studies. P.61-68. 
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O., Kirpichenok A.I. «Ana Kurdi»: the Jews of Kurdistan (Russian) // Etnografia. 2020. 2 (8). P. 44-67. DOI 10.31250/2618-8600-2020-2(8)-42-65. 
  
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Kazimir Vasilevski and alternative visions of Soviet Policy towards Turkey in the 1930s (Russian) // Actual problems of Turkic studies. Materials of International scientific conferences XXXIII & XXXIV Kononov Memorial Lectures. Saint Petersburg, 2020. C. 216-219.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. “The Mukri Kurds” by O.L. Vilchevsky: what and why has been deleted before publication? (Russian) // Islam in the modern world, Vol 16, No 4 (2020). S.99-116.
• Pobedonostseva Kaya A.O. Djelaleddin Korkmasov and the Weekly Stambulskie Novosti in Bolshevik-Unionist relationship (Turkish) // Kebikeç İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Yıl: 26 Sayı: 51. S. 97-114.
  
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Kurdistan: the People and the Djinns (Russian) // Mediation between the Real and Other Worlds in Muslim Religious Practices: Collection of Articles. M.: RGGU, 2021. Pp. 113-131.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Soviet Kurdish Studies in 1920-1930: Between Revolutionary Ideas and State Interests (Russian) // Problems of Modern Oriental Studies: Materials of the I Intern. Scientific-Practical Conf., Minsk, July 1–2, 2021 / Belarus State University. Minsk: BGU, 2021. Pp. 55-64.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Kirpichenok A.I. Seharane: Guarding the Identity of Kurdistan Jews (Russian) // Topical issues of studying the history, international relations and cultures of the countries of the East: Materials of the IV International Scientific Conference on September 27-28, 2021 / Novosibirsk State University. Novosibirsk: CPI NSU, 2021. Pp. 118-123.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Kurdish ‘Old’ New Year (Sere Sale) (Russian) // Caucasus: the crossroads of the cultures. Volume 3. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Saint Petersburg, 2021. P. 124-137.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Mental cartography and ethnography of the Soviet bureaucracy: Courses of the National Minorities of the Soviet East in Leningrad as an experimental platform for state policy (Russian) // V International Scientific Conference “Archival Oriental Studies”: Moscow, November 17–19, 2021 - M., 2021. Pp. 107-109.
• Dyakov N.N., Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Charismatic leadership in traditional societies of Western Asia and North Africa (Russian) // Proceedings of the XXXI International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa. Russia and the East. Commemorating сentennial of political and cultural ties in modern times. Vol. 2 (part 2). St. Petersburg: NP-Print Publishers, 2022. Pp. 343-361.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. From support of Christians to the world revolution: the Assyrian question in the politics of the Russian Empire and the USSR (Russian) // Istoriya Povsednevnosti (History of everyday life). №4 (24), 2022. Pp. 99-117.<

• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. “The Soviet government approves of our religion”: Yezidism in Soviet cinema (Russian) // Oriental Courier. 2022. № 3. Pp. 159-178.

• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Soviet Kurdology: From Cultural Studies to Cultural and Political Construction (Russian) // The Soviet era in the ethno-cultural dimension: Materials of the Twenty-First St. Petersburg Ethnographic Readings. St. Petersburg: Russian Museum of Ethnography, 2022. Pp. 158-163.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. “To prohibit them all without exception entering our realm…”: Naqshbandiya-Khalidiya in Kurdistan and Dagestan (Russian) // History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus. V.19 №1. 2023. Pp. 39-54.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. The relationship between Media and Power in Turkey from the 12 September 1980 Turkish Coup D'état until the 12 September 2010 Turkish Constitutional Referendum (Turkish) // Actual problems of Turkic Studies. Vol.I. St.Petersburg, 2023. Pp. 230-242.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O., Kirpichenok A.I. Integration of Kurdish Jews in Israel: from ‘Kurdish Jerusalem’ to Katamon of Jerusalem (Russian) // The Middle East and its neighbors: a collection of articles dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Professor Nikolai Nikolaevich Dyakov / comp., ed. by A. S. Matveev; Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. — St. Petersburg: Art-Express, 2023. Pp. 502-519.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. “Lenin and the Bolsheviks were Kurds”: folklore and politics in the Soviet Kurdish culture of the 1920-1930s (Russian) // Oriental Courier. 2023. № 2. Pp. 183-199.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. Cultural Revolution among Transcaucasian Kurds: Inter-Republican Rivalry in Soviet Nationalities Policy (Russian) // Istoriya Povsednevnosti (History of everyday life). 2023 № 3 (27). Pp. 47-71.
• Pobedonostseva-Kaya A.O. “I am so sorry that I took out human souls”: the Concepts of Soul and the Afterlife among Transcaucasian Yazidis in Modern Times (Russian) // Caucasology. 2023. № 4. Pp. 192-213.