In Spring 2010, Ilya Yakubovich moved from Chicago to Moscow, where he accepted the position of a Privatdozent (Assistant Professor) at his alma mater, Russian State University for the Humanities, and research appointments at the Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In January 2011 Ilya relocated to Oxford, where he was offered Jill Hart Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indo-Iranian Philology. He took a temporary leave from his teaching job, but continues to combine his work in Oxford with research appointments in Moscow.