Receiving his Ph.D. in history in 1996, Ivantchik was made a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2003 and is Professor of History at Moscow State University.
Since 2009 he has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ancient History.
Ivantchik specializes in the study of the ancient Eurasian steppe nomads such as the Cimmerians and Scythians.
[1] From 2017 he has been an editor-in-chief of the Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia and foreign Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
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