• 06.2025 received PhD in History from the Central European University in Budapest/Vienna
• 04.2022–ongoing doctoral mentor for the certificate program Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU), Central European University in Vienna and Budapest
• 01.2022–04.2022 teaching assistant for Prof. Karl Hall at the Central European University in Vienna
• 01.2019–04.2019 teaching assistant for Prof. Nadia Al-Bagdadi and Prof. Balázs Trencsényi at the Central European University in Budapest
• 09.2017–07.2019 received master’s degree in comparative history at the Central European University in Budapest
• 12.2017–07.2018 research assistant at the Department of History, Central European University in Budapest
• 09.2013–07.2017 received a bachelor’s degree in history

Sommersemester 2026

31204 (Seminar) - Extractive Empires: Ressources, Power, and Knowledge in Northern Eurasia (Mi 10-12)

31205 (Seminar) - Between Empire and Colony. A long history of Siberia (Fr 14-16) 

Wintersemester 2025/26

31201 (Einführungskurs) - Eastern Europe: Introduction to Area Studies (Do 10-12)

History of the Russian Empire and the USSR; New Imperial History; Intellectual History; Comparative History of Empires and Nationalism; Environmental History; Cultural History of Resources; Indigenous People of Siberia; History of Siberia; Siberian Regionalism; Federalism and Autonomism; Imperial Transformations; Questions of Postimperial Order.

My doctoral research project, titled “From the Land of Exile to the Land of the Future: Empires, Intellectuals, and Natural Resources in Yakutia, 1894–1930,” is devoted to various logics of discovery, description, attribution, and use of natural resources of the Yakut region during the late imperial, postimperial, and early Soviet transformations of the Northern Eurasian space of multiethnic and transcultural cooperation. A key aspect of my research revolves around the role played by local Sakha intellectuals, who sought to represent the interests of Sakha and other ethnic groups in the region within the framework of late imperial and early Soviet political realities. Collaborating closely with imperial geographers, ethnographers, and geologists, Sakha intellectuals gained scientific insights into the Yakut region and its natural resources. With the establishment of the Soviet regime, the authorities aimed to identify resources to fuel industrialization efforts. Despite gaining autonomy status by 1922, the Yakut region remained largely unexplored in terms of its industrial potential. The discovery of gold deposits in the south of the Yakut Republic in 1924 motivated Sakha intellectuals to initiate the Systematic Expedition to Study the Productive Forces of the Yakut ASSR from 1925 to 1930. This expedition aimed to scientifically investigate the resource opportunities in the region. However, geographical isolation, infrastructure challenges, and climatic conditions limited the full utilization of the region’s resource potential. In response, the Soviet authorities demanded increased knowledge production about the Yakut region from intellectuals and experts. However, the so-called “Great break” that occurred in 1929 drastically altered the region’s role and the status of its leading Sakha intellectuals. These intellectuals were removed from their administrative positions and eventually subjected to repression, including execution, during Stalin’s regime.

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Book Chapters
Online Publications
Reviews


Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Korobeinikov Aleksandr and Egor Antonov, “Under the Name “Yakut”: Pseudonymous Authorship, Settler Colonialism, and Political Agency of Sakha Intellectuals in the Late Russian Empire.” Ab Imperio 26, no. 3 (2025): 79–111.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “‘Gold and Furs are the Alpha and Omega of the Iakut Economy:’ The Sakha Political Agency and Early Soviet Nationalities and Economic Policy, 1922–1929.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 26, no. 4 (2025): 733–762.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Rethinking Imperial Regions: Contested Resource Use in Iakutia, 1894–1930.” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 72, no. 4 (2024): 549–577.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Questioning Russian Settler Colonialism: Resettlement Strategies and Indigenous Agency in the Post-Imperial Sakha (Yakut) Region,” Settler Colonial Studies 15, no. 2 (2025): 280–305.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Yakut Autonomy: The Postimperial Political Projects of the Sakha Intellectuals, 1905–1922,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 30, no. 6 (2023): 958–986.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr and Egor Antonov, “Toward a Postimperial Order? The Sakha Intellectuals and the Revolutionary Transformations in Late Imperial Russia, 1905–1917,” Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies 20, no. 2 (2021): 27–59.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Yakutskaya Avtonomiya: Postimperskie Politicheskie Proekty Yakutskoi Intelligentsii, 1905–1922” [Yakut Autonomy: The Post-Imperial Political Projects of the Yakut Intellectuals, 1905–1922], Ab Imperio 18, no. 4 (2017): 77–118.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Voobrazhaya Alash: opyt konstruirovaniya kazakhskoi natsii v kontkste imperskogo krizisa, 1905–1917 gg.” [Imagining Alash: The Kazakh Nation-Building Experience in the Context of the Imperial Crisis, 1906–1917], Chelovek v mire kultury. Regional’nye kulturologicheskie issledovania 21, no 2/3 (2017): 93–97.

Sablin Ivan and Aleksandr Korobeinikov, “Dosovetskiy avtonomizm v Sibiri i Tsentral’noy Azii: Buryat-Mongoliya i Alash v kontekste imperskogo krizisa” [Pre-Soviet Autonomism in Siberia and Central Asia: Buryat-Mongolia and Alash in the Context of the Imperial Crisis], Vostok. Afro-Aziatskie obshchestva: istoriya i sovremennost’, no. 2 (2017): 49–61.

Sablin Ivan and Aleksandr Korobeinikov, “Buryat-Mongol and Alash Autonomous Movements before the Soviets, 1905–1917,” AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 12, no. 3 (2016): 211–223.

Book Chapters:

Korobeinikov Aleksandr and Ivan Sablin, “Siberian Regionalism and Indigenous Self-Government: Buryat and Sakha Agency in Russia’s Imperial Transformations,” in From Empire to Federation in Eurasia: Ideas and Practices of Diversity Management, eds. Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira (London: Routledge, 2026), in print.

Korobeinikov Sasha (Aleksandr), “Your Understanding in not Enough,” in Invisible University for Ukraine: Essays on Democracy at War, eds. Ostap Sereda, Balázs Trencsényi, Tetiana Zemliakova, and Guillaume Lancereau (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024), 127–133.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Sobstvennyi Vostok Rossii? Ssylka i Etnograficheskoe Znanie v Pozdneimperskoi Yakutii” [Russia’s Own Orient? Exile and Ethnographic Knowledge in Late Imperial Yakutia], in Liudi Imperii–Imperiia Liudei: Personal’naia i Institutsio-Nal’naia Istoriia Aziatskikh Okrain Rossii: sbornik statei, ed. Natalya Suvorova (Omsk: Omskii Gosudarstvennii Universitet im Dostoevskogo, 2021), 51–61.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Imperskaia transformatsiia publichnoi sfery: pechatnoe slovo i publichnyi debat kak sredstvo formirovaniia obshchestvennykh dvizhenii v Sibiri” [The Imperial Transformation of the Public Sphere: The Printed Word and Public Debate as a Means of Formation of the Social Movements in Siberia], in Nesovershennaia publichnaia sfera: Istoriia rezhimov publichnosti v Rossii, eds. Tatiana Waiser, Timur Atnashev, and Mikhail Velizhev (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2021), 226–258.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Geografiia sovetskikh natsional’nostei v Sibiri: gorizontal’nye sviazi i transkul’turnoe vzaimodeistvie v kontekste formirovaniia Yakutskoi Avtonomnoi Sovetskoi Sotsialisticheskoi Respubliki” [Geography of Soviet Nationalities in Siberia: Horizontal Relations and Transcultural Interaction in the Context of the Formation of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic], in Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii: Zhizn’ v epokhu sotsial’nykh eksperimentov i voennykh ispytanii, 1917–1922, eds.Boris Kolonitskii and Nikolai Mikhailov (St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoria, 2020), 436–451.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Natsional’nyy avtonomizm v Sibiri i Tsentral’noy Azii v pozdeimperskii period (1905–1917 gg.)” [National Autonomism in Siberia and Central Asia in the Late Imperial Period (1905–1917)], in Aziatskaia Rossiia: problemy sotsial’no-ekonomicheskogo, demograficheskogo i kul’turnogo razvitiia (XVII–XXI vv.) (Novosibirsk: Parallel’, 2016), 403–408.

Zimina Maria, Aleksandr Korobeinikov, and Alexander Kuchinskiy, “Dinamika izmeneniya vizual’nogo obraza naseleniya Tsentral’noy Azii v kontekste perekhoda ot Rossiyskoy imperii k SSSR, 1871–1940 gg.” [Dynamics of Visual Image’s Transformation of Central Asian Population in the Context of Transition from the Russian Empire to the USSR, 1871–1940], in Konstruiruya “sovetskoe”? Politicheskoe soznanie, povsednevnye praktiki, novye identichnosti: materialy devyatoy mezhdunarodnoy konferentsii studentov i aspirantov (16–18 aprelya 2015 goda, Sankt-Peterburg) (St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo Evropeyskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2015), 42–49.

Online Publications:

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Non-Russian Intellectuals of Siberia: Regionalism & the Transformation of the Russian Empire,” Peripheral Histories? (2021), online.

Sablin Ivan, Aleksandr Kuchinskiy, Aleksandr Korobeinikov, Mikhaylov Sergey, Oleg Kudinov, Kitaeva Yana, Pavel Aleksandrov, and Maria Zimina, Transcultural Empire: Geographic Information System of the 1897 and 1926 General Censuses in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (Heidelberg: HeiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository, University of Heidelberg, 2015).

Reviews:

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Naganawa, Norihiro, ed. Dreams of Emancipation: A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia,” Ab Imperio 26, no. 3 (2025): 222–229.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “The Borders of Diversity: Red Lines in the Soviet Experiment,” CEU Review of Books (2025).

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Mezhdunarodnyi seminar “Pereosmyslenie pogranichnykh kapitalizmov: ekonomicheskie praktiki i bor’ba za resursy v (post)imperskoi Sibiri i Tsentral’noi Azii” (Institut vostochnoevropeiskikh issledovanii, Svobodnyi universitet Berlina, fevral’ 2024),” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 193, no. 25 (2025): 416–422.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “The Unknown Story of the Soviet Eastern International,” CEU Review of Books (2024).

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Parppei, Kati, and Bulat Rakhimzianov, eds. Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547–1917,” Slavonic and East European Review 102, no. 2 (2024): 371–374.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Ongoing and Future Approaches to Central Asian Studies,” H-Soz-Kult (2024).

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Suveica, Svetlana. Post-imperial Encounters: Transnational Designs of Bessarabia in Paris and Elsewhere, 1917–1922,” Ab Imperio 24, no. 4 (2023): 241–245.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Mandelstam Balzer, Marjorie. Galvanizing Nostalgia? Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia,” Europe-Asia Studies 75, no. 6 (2023), 1059–1060.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Rampton, Vanessa. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution,” Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes 65, no. 2 (2023): 245–246.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Arend, Jan, ed. Science and Empire in Eastern Europe: Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 70, no. 1–2 (2022): 224–227.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Chu, Pey-Yi. The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science,” Ab Imperio 23, no. 3(2022): 350–355.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Breyfogle, Nicholas, ed. Eurasian Environments. Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History,” Europe-Asia Studies 72, no. 5(2020): 921–923.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “A.S. Zuev, P.S. Ignatkin, V.A. Slugina. Pod sen’ dvuglavogo orla: inkorporatsiia narodov Sibiri v Rossiiskoe gosudarstvo v kontse XVI–nachale XVIII v.,” Ab Imperio 20, no. 4(2019): 167–174.

Korobeinikov Aleksandr, “Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames. War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921,” Europe-Asia Studies 71, no. 9 (2019): 1615–1616.