Throughout his writings he explores modern cultural and intellectual history of Lithuania and former region of East Prussia, with particular interest to former Territory of Memel/ Klaipėda (or Memelgebiet in German).
At the age 17 he published his first scientific book – a synthetic work on history of the city of Klaipėda.
in history from Klaipėda University and in 2011 defended his PhD "The Competition of Identity Ideologies in a City of South-Eastern Baltic Sea Region: the Case-Study of Klaipėda in the 20th Century" at The Lithuanian Institute of History and Klaipėda University (supervisor Professor Alvydas Nikžentaitis),[2] developing the concept of competition between different identity ideologies and cultures of remembrance in the same city.
Safronovas participates in national and international research projects on various topics in identity and collective memory, coordinated by both of these institutes.
He was also an author of 545 articles on regional history prepared for the 4th Volume of "Encyclopaedia of Lithuania Minor" (2009) [4] and co-editor of several books published in the series "Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis" by Klaipėda University.