Background
Elena Berezovich was born in Yekaterinburg in 1966.
Elena Berezovich was born in Yekaterinburg in 1966.
She graduated in 1988, from the Ural State University. In 1992 she defended her Doctor of Philosophy thesis Semantic Microsystems in Russian Toponymy.
She is currently a professor at the Department of Russian Language and General Linguistics of the Ural Federal University, (Yekaterinburg). Since 2006 Elena Berezovich has also been a research fellow of the Russian Language Institute in Moscow.
After defending her habilitation thesis (the Russian degree of Doktor nauk) Russian Toponymy from an Ethnolinguistic Perspective in 1999, she became professor of the Philological Department of the Ural State University (now Ural Federal University).