He is a journalist and medievalist historian, PhD in history. For about 10 years, he taught history of the Middle Ages and church history at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Nikolay Uskov is an author of the monograph “Christianity and Monasticism in Early Medieval Western Europe”. Since 2000, he has been in the media business, and headed Men's Health, GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) magazines in Conde Nast publishing house, and Snob magazine. From 2016 to 2018, he was an editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes. Since August 2018, Nikolai Uskov is an editorial director of Forbes Russia and a member of the Board of Directors of Forbes Russia.
