Education
Specialty Architecture
Qualification Architect (Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, 1986)
Postgraduate studies18.00.04 Urban planning, district plannig, landscape architecture and rural settlements plannig, 18.00.01 Theory and history of architecture, Restoration and reconstruction of historical and architectural heritage (SPbGASU, 1994)
Doctoral studies05.23.22 Urban planning, rural settlements planning, 05.23.20 Theory and history of architecture, Restoration and reconstruction of historical and architectural heritage (SPbGASU, 2015)
Professional development
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The pedagogical space of the university: technologies, meanings, values (SPbGASU, 2018, 72 hours)
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Features of teaching disabled people and people with health disorders in a technical university (SPbGASU, 2018, 16 hours)
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Anti-corruption (for teachers) (SPbGASU, 2018, 72 hours)
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Life safety (SPbGASU, 2018, 16 hours)
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Architecture: computer-aided design using BIM (SPbGASU, 2018, 72 hours)
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Preparation of design documentation for capital construction projects (SPbGASU, 2019, 72 hours)
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Labour protection in educational institutions (SPbGASU, 2020, 16 hours)
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Development and implementation of the main professional educational program in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education 3+++ (SPbGASU, 2020, 144 hours)
Teaching
- Urban planning, rural settlements planning (postgraduate studies)
- Pre-design studies in urban planning (Master's program)
- Design and research in the majored field (Master's program)
- Comprehensive urban planning design (Master's program)
- Typology of urban objects (bachelor's degree)
Professional interests
- Basic and applied scientific research
- Curriculum development
- Conceptual urban planning and architectural and construction design
- Improving teaching methods, introducing active learning methods at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels
- Scientific guidance for postgraduate students in the specialties 05.23.20 “Theory and history of architecture, restoration and reconstruction of historical and architectural heritage”, 05.23.21 “Architecture of buildings and structures. Creative concepts of architectural activity”, 05.23.22 “Urban planning, planning of rural settlements”
Postgraduate supervision
Has supervised three PhD students (two are working at SPbGASU).
Research interests
- Development of the methodological concept of regional urban identity
- Improving the methodologyand methods of urban planning and architectural research
- Development of an innovative spatial planning concept for the territory of the Russian Federation
- The study of regularities, specifics, problems and trends of town formation in the Baltic region
- Rationale for the creation of the East Baltic urbanized region
- Justification for the creation of the Prinevsky, Severouralsky, Belomorsky, and other national urbanized regions of Russia
- Addressing issues regarding the preservation, transformation, and development of cultural and natural landscapes in St. Petersburg and its metropolitan area
- Developing historical and urban planning rationales for the development concepts of territories and settlements in the Prinevye region
- Conducting historical-cultural and historical-urban planning studies of sites within St. Petersburg, the metropolitan area, and the Prinevsky urbanized region
- Highlighting regional specificities, fostering modern trends, and upholding the teaching traditions of the SPbGASU school of architecture and urban planning
Scientific conferences
Marina Monastyrskaya has participated in more than 40 international, national and inter-university conferences.Professional organizations
- Member of the Union of Architects of Russia (2014)
- Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), Division of Urban Planning (2024)
- Professor of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA, 2025)