Cyrill Lipatov is a historian and anthropologist based in Odesa. He has worked as a senior lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Ethnology of Ukraine at I. I. Mechnikov National University, director of the anti-cafe Ziferblat, director of the independent movie theater Inoteatr, and program director of the learning community 4City. Since 2015, he has been the program research curator at Urban Inst. In 2019, he joined the team of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, where he works as head of the Research Department.