Projects of the Institute of Olonkho, NEFU Chukotka Branch and the Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies won grant of Russian Foundation for Humanities, NEFU Research Management reported.

Three projects – “Yakut heroic epos Olonkho in the context of world epic enciclopedism”, “Alcohol in microsocium of Chukotka village: ethnographic study of ethnocultural, social and economic interactions" and "Landscape in the narrative of memory: Reality. Image. Modeling" were financed to organize and conduct research.

The Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies presented the project - a scientific conference "Landscape in the narrative of memory: Reality. Image. Modeling ". Two teams of researchers took part in the preparation of application to competition from Russia – the Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies, the Institute of Natural Sciences and the Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of SB RAS and France - Aix-Marseille University, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University and Nice Sophia Antipolis University, which have cooperation agreements with NEFU. "The results of the conference can be used in the construction and reconstruction of geographical image of the region, its ethnic and cultural landscape, involving different means, creating mental maps of spatial and cultural sites of Yakutia, development of tourist routes, description of ethnographic, archaeological, cultural sites", Lyudmila Zamorschikova, the project manager, IFPRS associate professor, said.

Research Interdisciplinary Conference, which will be held on June 25-26, will touch on the issues of cultural heritage, the use of GIS technologies and remote sensing of landscape, satellite imagery to measure and study the dynamics of its development. And this knowledge has not only fundamental scientific character, but also applied significance for the economy and development of the territories, the project developers believe.

Leading scientists from France were invited to participate in the conference, including participation of the scientists from Moscow, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk and Samara.

You can read more about "The Yakut heroic epic Olonkho in the context of world epic enciclopedism" of NEFU Research Institute of Olonkho here.