Grigori Chlesberg M.A. studied history and philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg and Philipps-University in Marburg. Since 2019, he has been working on his PhD at Justus Liebig University Giessen and is a research associate in the project "The Challenge of Developing Geodata-Based Gazetteer Research Technologies and Methods”, which is jointly organized by the Herder Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, and the University of Giessen. His research focuses on modern and contemporary history, place name research, and East Central European history.