Kirill Tolpygo

How I can support your research projects:

• Research appointments: via Zoom (in-person appointments currently unavailable due to pandemic). I can work with you to:
  • develop your research question and assess whether your project is feasible;
  • identify and navigate relevant information resources and research tools;
  • evaluate and interpret the information you find;
  • access materials beyond UNC, including from institutions abroad.

How I can support instructors:

• Library workshops for your students, tailored to your assignments (via Zoom: in-person workshops currently unavailable due to pandemic). Students will get to practice:
  • developing a research question;
  • getting started with a research project;
  • choosing the right databases and other research tools;
  • finding and evaluating primary and secondary sources.
• Individual or group appointments for your students to support them through the research project.

Special skills: foreign languages

• I can work with you to navigate sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, to a much lesser degree, French, and, in a pinch, Hungarian.
• I can work with you on Russian grammar and conversation practice.

Please feel free to book appointments with me as many times and as often as needed!

Hello! My name is Kirill, I am a research librarian in Davis Library, specializing in Slavic & East European studies, global studies, and linguistics. From time to time, I also teach first and second year Russian at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

If you'd like to correspond in Russian, my name is: Толпыго Кирилл Сергеевич. And in Ukrainian: Толпиго Кирило Сергійович.

I look forward to working with you!