Nikolay Zyuzev

Doctor of Philosophy, researcher of Pitirim Sorokin's work. Graduated from the Philological Faculty of Syktyvkar State University. He received his philosophical education in postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He taught at the Komi State Pedagogical Institute (1995-2011), Syktyvkar State University (2010-2011), and headed the Department of Philosophy at Ukhta State University (2006-2009). In 2005-2006, he interned at Harvard University (USA) as a professor. In 2013, he received a law degree from Everest College (Toronto, Canada). From 2012 to 2015, he taught at Massey College (University of Toronto, Canada).

In 2015, he obtained Canadian citizenship and returned to Syktyvkar. From 2015 to 2022, Zyuzev was a professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Pedagogical Anthropology at the P. Sorokin Syktyvk State University. After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he left again for Canada, but sometimes returned to his native village in the Kortkerossky district of Komi.

At the end of June 2025, Zyuzev was taken into custody in a case of confidential cooperation with a representative of a foreign state. The details of the case are unknown.