Alekseev was the vice-director of the
Institute of Linguistics of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, and the head of its section on Caucasian languages. He studied linguistics at
Moscow State University with
Aleksandr E. Kibrik, taking part in several field trips to
Pamir and
Daghestanian languages. He defended his dissertation in 1975, supervised by
Georgiy A. Klimov, on "The problem of the affective/experiential sentence construction". Alekseev's later contributions mostly concerned the historical-comparative study of Daghestanian languages. He was a close colleague and collaborator of
Sergei A. Starostin. ==External links==