Projects Current Projects 2024 - 2025 Confession as a way of constituting the community of the Orthodox Church 2024 - 2025 Awareness of family life by young couples. An analysis of three waves of interviews from the perspective of the relational sociology (supported by Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University and The Active Tradition Foundation) 2021 - 2022 - 2023 Awareness of family life by young couples. Conceptualization and operationalization of categories related to communion in marriage (supported by Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University and the Active Tradition Foundation) 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 The Paradox of Interrelation between Religion and Family in Modern Russia (Research grant RSF) 2021 - 2022 - 2023 The social significance of spiritual kinship in Russia (supported by Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University and the Active Tradition Foundation) in 2021-2023 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 Research-practical project “Living Communities” 2020 - 2021 Social work of the Russian Orthodox Church: development factors and the problem of institutionalization (grant of the president of the Russian Federation № 20-1-037307) 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 How do young families appear and live in modern Russia? Comparison of secular families and priests’ families (within the framework of the program of PSTGU Development Foundation in 2018-2021) Completed Projects 2018 - 2019 - 2020 “The Invisible Religion” by T. Lukman: the origins of the concept and the possibility of using it for the analysis of contemporary Russian Orthodoxy (within the framework of the program of PSTGU Development Foundation in 2018-2020) 2018 - 2019 Homeless People in Russian Megapolis: Socio-Demographic Portrait, Trajectories of Getting into the Street and Attitudes to the Charitable Organisations’ Help 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 Religion and patterns of social and economic organization. Elective affinity between religion and economy in Christian denominations in Switzerland and Russia. Research Grant: RFH – SNSF 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 International Research Project “Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective” (YARG) 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 Social Work of Russian Orthodox Church in XXI Century (within the framework of the program of PSTGU Development Foundation) 2017 - 2018 Russian Orthodox Church Social Work: evaluation of quantitative characteristics 2017 Priest in the church and society: analysis of time-budgets 2016 - 2017 International research project “The Global Recession in Christian Marriage: What it Means for Families, Nations, and the Church” 2016 - 2017 Seminar “The economy as a problem: political and theological thought about the boundaries of economics” (within the framework of the program of PSTGU Development Foundation in 2016-2017) 2016 - 2017 Analysis of the Time-Budget and Types of Activities of Priests (within the framework of the program of PSTGU Development Foundation in 2016) 2016 Holy Saturday: An opinion poll in the temples of the Eastern Vicariate of Moscow on the 30th of April 2016 2015 - 2016 Fertility and social support networks: determinants of large families’ formation (ISEPR Foundation) 2015 - 2016 Priest in Modern World. Research Grant: PSTGU 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 Orthodox Monitor 2015 Seminar “Gift Exchange Theory”. Grant: PSTGU 2014 - 2015 Religiosity influence on norms and values in Russia and European countries. Research grant: RFBR 14-06-31188 2014 Living on Debt: Social Meaning of Debt in the Communal life in Russia. Research Grant: PSTGU 2014 Economic ethics of the Orthodox laity in modern Russia. Sociological analysis. Research Grant: RFH 14-33-01031 2013 Russian Orthodox Church in the Public Sphere: Deprivatization of Religion in Contemporary Russia. Research grant: Institute for Public Projects 2012 - 2013 Social work organization on the Russian Orthodox Church parishes in the first half of XXI. Sociological Analysis. Research grant: RFH 12-03-00565 2012 - 2013 Social support networks in the Orthodox church community. Research grant: RF President’s Grant МК-4450.2012.6 2012 - 2013 Civic Engagement of Universities in Russia (Social Effects of Educational Institutions). Research Grant: RFH 12-33-01366 2011 Three Moscow parishes. Main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parish communities members. Research Grant: PSTGU 2011 Theological Education and Confessional Universities in Contemporay World. Research Grant: PSTGU 2011 Research on social assistance for homeless in governmental, community and religious organizations. Research Grant: PSTGU 2010 Orthodox Сhurch Community Formation Factors at Urban Parish. Research Grant: PSTGU 2010 Orthodox Church social work organization at Moscow parishes. Research Grant: PSTGU 2009 Family and Child-bearing in Russia: Categories of Parental Mind. Research Grant: PSTGU Projects requiring financial support [researches at the initial stage] Medicine as a Fertility Dynamics Factor in Russia. The Religious Functions of Medicine Folk pedagogy Economic ethics of the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church