Holder of a degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2012) and a PhD in Contemporary History from Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2022), Anna Safronova teaches in the Department of Slavic Studies at Paris 8 University in Vincennes, Saint-Denis. Her postdoctoral research centers around the environmental history of the Volga Delta in the twentieth century, with a particular focus of the management of fishery resources.