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🔥Liliya Ward

Russian and English tutor in London

I am a lecturer and researcher with over 11 years of experience in higher education (Russia) and I am an experienced teacher of Russian and English working in London for 14 years.

I was born in Russia, in the city of Kazan. I studied Russian and English Philology at Kazan University (Russia) and obtained my doctoral degree in Russian Linguistics in 2000. I also have an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University College London. I have been a language teacher for 25 years.

After graduating I started working as a lecturer at Kazan university teaching at the Department of the Romance and Germanic Languages. After moving to the UK in 2008, I started working as a private Russian tutor teaching Russian as a foreign language.

In my free time, I enjoy writing poetry and plays, I am also engaged in acting and love singing and being creative.

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Work experience

Dates Work place Position
Oct 2021 – Present Russian Language Centre, London, UK Teacher of Russian, self-employed
Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. Institute of Philology & Intercultural Communication, Department of Theory and Practice of TFL Senior Lecturer, full-time
Sep 2008 – Present Just Russian Language Tuition and Consultancy, London, UK Russian & English Tutor, self-employed
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016 CompactGTL Ltd, London, UK Personal assistant to CEO, part-time
Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. Institute of Philology & Intercultural Communication, Department of Modern Russian Language & Teaching Methodology Senior Lecturer, part-time
Sep 1997 – Aug 2008 Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. Faculty of Philology, Department of Romance and Germanic Languages Lecturer to Senior Lecturer, full-time

My Activities

My Other Interests

  1. Psychology and Philosophy
  2. Literature and Culture
  3. Paranormal and Unknown
  4. Misticism and Magic
  5. Astrology and Tarot
  6. Drawing and Painting



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