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ate University. During the years 1981-1991 Alexander Kryukov worked as a senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. During 1991-2006 he taught Hebrew and modern Hebrew literature at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Moscow State University. Kryukov is the Author of over 300 publications on the history and culture of Israel, the Israeli Hebrew language and literature, including several monographs and regional studies books. He has translated six modern Hebrew prose books into Russian - works of Ephraim Kishon, Emuna Yaron (Agnon), Yoram Buzzard, Amos Kenan, Orly Castel-Bloom, Menahem Talmi, Etgar Kereta, Gila Almagor, Alex Epstein, Uzi Weil, Meir Shalev and others . Since March 2006 he has been working in the Russian Foreign Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia (Head of the Middle East Department),

In February 2007 - he was appointed the Representative of the Russian Foreign Center ( since September 2008 - Federal Agency Rossotrudnichestvo) in Israel, Director of the Russian Cultural Center, Counsellor of the Russian Embassy In Israel. Kryukov's translations and articles of Hebrew literature are published periodically in the newspaper "News of the Week."