Telitsin Nikolay N.

Languages:

• Russian (native),
• Turkish (fluent),
• English (reading),
• German (reading)

Education:

• 1986-1989 — PhD Programme in Turkic Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Leningrad State University. PhD Thesis: “Infinite verb forms in the Old Uigur language (on the material of the Old Uygur manuscripts from Xinjiang)”. (1990, supervisor Prof. Sergey Ivanov)
• 1981-1986 — Undergraduate Programme in Turkic Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Leningrad State University. Specialist Diploma.

Professional positions:

• Since  2013 — Head of the Department of Turkic Philology, SPbSU
• 1993-2013 — Associate Professor, Department Turkic Philology, SPbSU
• 1989-1993 — Senior Lectrurer, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, SPbSU

Professional and social activities:

• Member of the Bureau of the Russian Committee of Turkologists
• Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "Russian Turkology"
• Convener, International Scientific Conference "Languages and literatures of the Turkic peoples" dedicated to the 180th anniversary of the Department of Turkic Philology at the Petersburg State University (26-28 October 2015)
• Convener, The 6th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies (Saint-Petersburg, October 2–6, 2016)
• Convener, International Scientific Conference XIX Ivanov Memorial Lectures (Saint-Petersburg, May 19, 2017)
• Convener, International scientific conference XXXII Kononov Memorial Lectures, (Saint-Petersburg,October 27-28, 2017)

Research interests:

• Linguistics,
• History and Culture of Old Turks,
• Old Turkic Languages (Language of Turkic Runic Monuments and Old Uyghur Language),
• Ottoman Language,
• Modern Turkish and Dialects

Teaching:

• Language of Old Turkic Runic Monuments
• Old Uygur Language
• Ottoman Turkish
• Culture of Old Turks
• Translation from Russian into Turkish
• Introduction to Ottoman calligraphy

PhD students:

• Alexandra Perednya. Nominal inflectional categories in the old Uyghur. (2010-2016)

Publications: 40

• On the issue of the difference in participles in the Old Uighur language. // Vestn. -Petersburg. University. Ser. 13. 2012. Issue. 1. P. 27-38.
• Basic concepts of writing development among the Turkic peoples in antiquity // Concepts of modern oriental studies. SPb, 2013. P. 407-419.
• To the interpretation of the -sar in the Old Uighur language // Alkïš bitig. Scripta in honorem D.M.Nasilov. Collection of articles for the 80th anniversary of D.M. Nasilov. M., 2015. P. 234-238.
• Some thoughts on the origin and development of Turkic writing in the ancient time (Mongolia and Xinjiang). 捷利岑. 论古代突厥文字的起源与发展： 以蒙古和新疆为例 //2014年中国西部文学与地域文化国际高端论坛论文选. 广州暨南大学出版社, 2015. Рр.1-9 (298 р.)
• On the question of «original» manuscripts in Old Uighur Language// The Fifth International Symposium of Ancient Ethnic Minority Documents of China: Proceedings (Yinchuan, China. 11-14 September 2015). Yinchuan, 2015. P. 179. (367 p.)
• Conditional verbal participle in ancient Turkic languages // International Scientific Conference "Languages and literatures of the Turkic peoples" dedicated to the 180th anniversary of the Department of Turkic Philology at the Petersburg State University (26-28 October 2015). Abstracts. SPb., 2015. P. 120-121 (155 p.)
• On the phonemic meaning of the sign I in Turkic Runic Inscriptions // Actual problems of Turkic studies. SPb., 2016. S. 45-49 (592 p.) (In co-authorship with V.G.Guzev)