Hello! My name is Esa-Jussi Salminen. I am from Heinolan mlk, Finland. I work as a lecturer of Finnish language in the Udmurt State University 2015-2017 (sent by Center for International Mobility, Helsinki). The courses I am giving are: Practical Finnish language, History of Finnish

language, Lexicology of Finnish language, Grammar of Finnish language.

My education: 2006 onwards PhD studies in Finno-Ugric language studies (Turku university) 1991–2006: BA and MA studies and degree (FM) in Finno-Ugric language studies (University of Turku) · 1995-2004: supplementary studies of Finnish, Finno-Ugric, Baltic, Slavic and Turkic languages (University of Helsinki) Work experience: 2003-2005 university lecturer (Mari State university) 2005-2007 university lecturer (Udmurt State university) 2008-2009 university lecturer (Mari State university) and researcher of Finnish studies in Russian Finno-Ugric regions 2010-2013 university lecturer (UBB, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) You could contact me: Research interests ejsalminen@gmail.com Broader research interests: Finno-Ugric languages and cultures in Central Russia Institute of Udmurt Philology, Finno- Narrower research interests: Ugric Studies and Journalism; Determinative and possessive suffixes and syntax of Udmurt and Mari language department of General and Finno-Ugric Popularization of the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia in Finland Linguistics Research of Udmurt literature and translating it into Finnish Campus bld.2, room 209 Teaching of Finnish as a foreign language in Finno-Ugric regions of Europian Union and Russia Status of Finno-Ugric languages in Russian Federation Ethnofuturism Major research projects 2000-2001:assistant in the project of the Finnish literary language of the 19th century, KOTUS, Helsinki 2008-2009 researcher (CIMO) of Finnish studies in Russian Finno-Ugric regions