Education
In 1971, he graduated the Oriental department of Leningrad University.
In 1971, he graduated the Oriental department of Leningrad University.
Arsenyev was born into a family of doctors. In 1971-1974, he served in Africa as a military translator. He was a student of Doctorate.A. Olderogge.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Institute of Ethnography of the Soviet Academy in 1977.
From 1977 to 2006 he worked in the Kunstkamera. Starting in 2006 he was a senior research fellow of its Centre for Political and Social Anthropology.
He taught Africanist disciplines at the Oriental department of the Saint St. Petersburg State University. He participated in the field work in Mali in 1971-1974, 1980–1981, 1996–1997, 2002, 2005.
And expeditions to Permanent Oblast (1967–1970), Kuril Islands (1985).
