Ekaterina Vlasova
- Deputy Director:Faculty of Humanities / Russian Language Centre
- Associate Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Ekaterina Vlasova has been at HSE University since 2016.
Education and Degrees
- 2015
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
- 2010
Degree in Philology
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
July - August 2016 – additional qualification Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, Moscow State University, Russian Language Center
January 2018 - PhD student at the University of Helsinki, School of Modern Languages

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2017-2019)
Courses (2022/2023)
Academic Writing (in Russian) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "58.03.01. Востоковедение и африканистика", field of study "58.03.01. Востоковедение и африканистика"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
Academic Writing (in Russian) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "58.03.01. Востоковедение и африканистика", field of study "58.03.01. Востоковедение и африканистика"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Research Methodology in Sociolinguistics" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Russian Language and Speech Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Russian Language and Speech Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research and Design Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Russian as a Foreign Language. Level 5. Intermediate-High (For foreign students; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Russian language as a bridge between cultures (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
- Foreign Language (Finnish) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Projects
Russian Learner Corpus: http://www.web-corpora.net/RLC
managing the text collection of the Finnish subcorpus, manual annotation of errors, linguistic analysis
Books1
Articles and book chapters3
- Article Lyashevskaya O., Litvintseva K., Сечина Е. В., Vlasova E. Verb rhyme in Russian Poetry: a quantitative analysis // Russian linguistics. 2020. No. 44(2). P. 145-156. doi
- Chapter Lyashevskaya O., Vlasova E., Litvintseva K. Lexical Diversity and Colour Hues in Russian Poetry: A Corpus-Based Study of Adjectives, in: Quantitative Approaches to Versification. Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019. P. 131-141.
- Chapter Vlasova E. Prepositional phrases with dlja in non-standard varieties of Russian in Finland: evidence from the Russian Learner Corpus, in: Slavica Helsingiensia 52: Russian Language in the multilingual world Vol. 52: Russian in the multilingual world. Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, 2019. Ch. 1. P. 46-57.
Working papers2
- Preprint Ekaterina A. Vlasova, Pavel O. Albitskiy, Aleksandra A. Bogoiavlenskaia, Inna V. Glebkina, Natalia A. Zevakhina, Maria A. Ponkratova, Sergei A. Slastnikov, Nikita R. Sidorov, Alina Y. Sherstyuk. BUILDING THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC PHRASE BANK: A DEEP LEARNING APPROACH. / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2021. No. 109. (in press)
- Preprint Lyashevskaya O., Vlasova E., Litvintseva K., Сечина Е. В. A Data Analysis Tool for the Corpus of Russian Poetry / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018. No. 77.
Conferences
- 2018Русский язык в многоязычном мире (Москва). Presentation: Е.А. Власова (НИУ ВШЭ, Москва) – Книга для рецептов или книга рецептов: о регулярных нарушениях в употреблении именной группы с предлогом для в речи иностранных студентов с доминантным финским языком
Международная научно-теоретическая конференция «Проблемы поэтики и стиховедения VIII», посвященная 90-летию Казахского национального педагогического университета имени Абая (Алматы). Presentation: Поглотило ли чувство уныния все прочие? Опыт корпусного семантического анализа эмоциональных номинаций в элегиях В.А. Жуковского, Е.А. Баратынского и А.С. Пушкина.
III Международная практико-ориентированная конференция «Многоязычие и межкультурная коммуникация: Вызовы XXI века: «Как учить(ся) сегодня, чтобы у нас было завтра» (2-5 июля 2018 г., Афины) (Афины). Presentation: Русский учебный корпус RLC как источник-информации о наиболее частотных ошибках билингвов и ресурс для составления упражнений (на примере финско-русского подкорпуса)
- 2017Русская грамматика: описание, преподавание, тестирование» (Финляндия, Хельсинки, 07.06.17 – 09.06.17) (Хельсинки). Presentation: Особенности согласования между подлежащим и сказуемым в текстах эритажных студентов с доминантным финским языком (по данным «Русского учебного корпуса»)
- 2014
Международная конференция студентов, аспирантов и молодых учёных «Ломоносов 2013» (Москва). Presentation: Придаточные инфинитивные конструкции как средство обозначения предстоящей ситуации в прошлом
Grants
January - June 2018 - Kone Foundation research grant "Corpus-driven approach to non-standard varieties of Russian in Finland: evidence from the Russian Learner Corpus", Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Intensive Summer Language School 2022
This summer we offer an intensive 8-week summer program for students with the Intermediate and Advanced levels of Russian language proficiency from June 25th through August 20th 2022.
Summer school of Russian 2021 is open for applications
For the second half of summer 2021 we are planning to offer an intensive 6-week summer program at HSE campus (it is possible although that the program might be shifted to online format due to quarantine measures) for students with the Intermediate and Advanced levels of the Russian language proficiency from July 5 through August 12.
Call for applications
Online summer school of Russian is now open for applications!