Vladislav Kruchinsky was born in Moscow. He graduated in Oriental and African Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, 2010) and has a Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from the same university (2016). He works on the history and anthropology of South Africa. He teaches in the Department of Indo‑Iranian and African languages at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. From 2010 to 2019, he worked at the Center for Research into the Countries of Southern Africa of the Africa Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2011 to 2013, he was a guest researcher at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and in 2014 at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town). In 2020, he ran a course on urban anthropology at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
