Our team

Александр Кочнев
Руководитель проекта
Graduated Moscow State Technical University named after N. E. Bauman in 2011 with a degree in “Information processing and control systems”. Started YouLang project in 2018. In 2020 together with YouLang team launched an online training system of Russian as a foreign language called “Youna”. I love bringing my ideas to life.
Мария Харчевник
Ведущий методист
Teacher of Russian as a foreign language at the Belarusian State University (preparatory faculty). 2013-2016 - proofreader and editor in the Office of Editorial and Publishing Work of BSU, where she was engaged in integrated preparation for printing textbooks and teaching aids for university students, including RFL.
Мария Савинова
Автор-методист
Teacher of Russian as a foreign language. Over 15 years of teaching experience. Co-author of several textbooks on academic Russian (A2–B1) and grammar (B1). I work with students of various proficiency levels in Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL), from A0 to C1. I believe that teaching a language means thinking together in that language.
Ирина Уткина
Автор-методист
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor. Over 20 years of experience teaching Russian as a Foreign Language. I live and work in Russia. I have taught Russian from scratch without an intermediary language to students from African countries, Europe, East and Southeast Asia, and Arab countries (A0–C2). I have worked in preparatory programs, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, specialist degree programs, and PhD programs.
Яна Королькова
Автор
Teacher of Russian as a Foreign Language at Tomsk Polytechnic University, PhD in Philology. I develop worksheets for A0–B1 levels and write textbooks on academic Russian. I regularly upgrade my professional qualifications and am interested in interactive learning technologies.
Елена Филатова
Автор
In 2014 she received a diploma from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Russian as a foreign language. She taught RCTs at the Derzhavinsky Institute of Foreign Languages and at the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and now I study privately with students. My second specialty is the editor-corrector.
Полина Макарова
Автор
I hold a Master’s degree from the Higher School of Economics in “Russian as a Foreign Language in the Interaction of Languages and Cultures,” as well as a Master’s degree from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in “Language Sciences.” I have experience teaching both children and adults learning Russian as a Foreign Language, with and without an intermediary language. I am interested in working with AI and using it to create educational materials.
Анджела Кузьмина
Автор
Teacher of Russian as a foreign language, graduated Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov with a master degree in RFL. Was a lecturing in that same university as teaching assistant, participated in the organization of international winter and summer schools of Russian language as well as the realization of distance teaching courses “Speaking in Russian” with students from Taiwan.
Анна Останина
Автор
I graduated from the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute in 2010. I have 11 years of experience teaching Russian as a Foreign Language and develop my own teaching materials. I speak English and Romanian and am currently learning German. I live in Austria.
Юлия Порядина
Автор-методист
I’ve graduated St. Petersburg State University with a master degree in “Russian language and culture in the aspect of RFL”. I’ve been working in my degree field for more than 5 years in universities and language centers. I dream of working as a professor on all continents (not sure about Antarctic though yet). North America, Asia, Europe are already in the list. I speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, play quizzes and can play African drums. I love having fun both teaching and learning.
Лина Ковалевская
Автор-методист
A teacher of Russian as a foreign language. I spent almost 10 years of my life working in the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, where I worked my way from the department assistant to the vice dean and continued teaching will this very day.
Надежда Брагина
Автор-методист
PhD in Education (Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language); - Author of educational courses “URA! Russian for English-speaking students”, “Russian Grammar through Songs” and "Bukovkiny istorii" (The Letters" Stories); - Teaching methodology expert and educator with 15 years of experience in teaching foreign languages to students of all levels of language competence;
Александра Де Паулис
Автор-методист
A teacher of Russian as a foreign language, she graduated from the magistracy of the State Russian Language Institute. A.S. Pushkin in the direction of RCTs, Bachelor of Moscow State Pedagogical University (pedagogical education, Polish). Passed training internship at the Pedagogical University.
Александра Богоявленская
Автор
Graduated from the faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow state University with a degree in Theory and methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language. Several times a year I pass courses of professional development of teachers.
Екатерина Соловец
Автор-методист
A teacher of Russian as a foreign language, she graduated from the magistracy of the State Russian Language Institute. Pushkin in the direction of the RFL. She worked on the creation of online courses on RCT for the portal "Education in Russian" and in the Center for Language Testing for the level of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language.
Анисия Соколова
Редактор
In 2015 I graduated St. Petersburg State University with a degree in “Russian language as a foreign language”. Then I graduated the Master program “Philological basics of editing and criticism” (2017). As a private tutor I taught RFL. Nowadays I still teach postgrads and prepare them for their final projects.
Сергей Гриффитс
Звук, голос
Leading programs on the Russian-language radio station in Lithuania, a teacher of RFL online, avid traveler, author of two channels on youtube. He graduated from the faculty of Slavic Philology and journalism of Kaliningrad state University (now BFU named after I. Kant).
Анастасия Скачкова
Звук, голос
I have been working as a voice-over artist and narrator for over six years. I have collaborated with the game company HoYoverse and run channels on TikTok and YouTube. I speak English and, in my free time, study French and Japanese.
Анастасия Богданова
Интернет-маркетолог
I’ve graduated Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration with the degree in “Advertising and PR”. Currently I am studying in the Master program in Germany. I am also remotely getting the second education in English teaching. I am proficient in English, German and Spanish.
Мария Вахрушева
Менеджер сообщества
Master of philology in RFL, postgraduate in Pushkin State Russian Language Institute. Professor and tutor of RFL, freelance journalist. Winner of the “Masters of Russian language 2019” competition, graduate of Journalism Academy of “Kommersant” publishing house.
Евгений Манацкий
Программист
My work experience as a programmer is over 9 years. I know PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS perfectly, I have excellent MySQL skills, and I also work with modern frameworks Laravel, Vue.js, I am experienced in working with high-loaded projects. I have been creating complex projects, such as, a large social network, food delivery service and others.