All-Russian scientific conference “Soviet ethnographic Northern Studies in dialogues with time” about the development of ethnographic research centers of Russian Siberian studies

The history of the creation and development of Russian scientific centres of ethnographic Siberian studies, revealed in the reports of the All-Russian scientific conference ‘Soviet Ethnographic North Studies in Dialogues with Time’ is considered. This forum was held on 11-13 November 2024 in Moscow and was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the North and Siberia Department of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and to the 120th anniversary of the birth of B.O. Dolgikh. The conference was held in three sessions -‘The Scientific World of B.O. Dolgikh and the Moscow Ethnographic School: Time and Fates’, ‘Ethnographic Northern Studies Yesterday and Today: Schools, Personalities, Methods and Directions of Research’, ‘Current Problems of Ethnological Research and Interdisciplinary Dialogues’. A total of 46 reports were presented. Of these, 20 papers were devoted to topics on the history of ethnographic research with historiographical inclusions, including 8 papers on the life and scientific works of B.O. Dolgikh. The article describes in more detail the activities of the ethnographic centres of Moscow, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Tomsk and Omsk presented in the reports. The keynote of the conference was E.A. Pivneva's report ‘ The Department of the North and Siberia of IEA RAS: Stages and Results of 70 Years of History’. Established in 1954 as a sector for the study of socialist construction in the small peoples of the North, the Department has successfully combined applied and fundamental research throughout its activity, as the author of the report noted. The Leningrad / St. Petersburg Ethnographic Centre was the subject of reports by E.M. Tyushlyaev ‘The History of the Institute of the Peoples of the North in Leningrad in the 1930s’ and S.V. Bereznitsky ‘The Department of Ethnography of Siberia of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Past, Present, Future’. Since the 1960s, the process of formation of ethnographic research centres in Siberia itself began, namely, they appeared in Barnaul, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Ulan-Ude, and Yakutsk. The report of N.A. Tomilov ‘The Department of the North and Siberia of IEA RAS and its contribution to the creation and development of ethnographic centres in Tomsk and Omsk’ was devoted to this topic. It characterised the main directions of cooperation between the Department and Siberian institutions in the development of ethnographic Siberian studies. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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