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Education
The main achievement from institutes, colleges, and special folklore, literature, and Northern peoples’
of the NPI is its great courses built the first qualified team history is prepared. The dominance in
the research and educational activity of
of the Northern intellectuals. The
contribution into the graduates of the Northern Peoples’ this academic subdivision belonging to
Russian education. Institute worked as school teachers, Hertsen’s university is the realisation of
the conception on cultural and ecological
participated in the writing creation in
the native languages, opened centres on activity developed by its scientific and
the Northern Peoples’ the illiteracy liquidation, conducted the pedagogical team as well as exercised in
two major trends: the ethno-philological
enlightenment of the indigenous Northern
Institute, the Northern peoples. Thus, before the Great Patriotic and ethno-cultural ones. The students
faculty of LSU, the War, the personnel training from the studying in the NPI are the representatives
of the indigenous peoples from 20 regions
small in numbers Northern peoples was
Northern division and made in three educational institutions of the North, Siberia, and Far East. There
the faculty of LSPI – the in Leningrad: LSU n. a. A.A. Zhdanov, are more than 400 Northern students in
LSPI n. a. A.I. Hertsen, and the Northern
the NPI.
RSPU n. a. A.I. Hertsen Peoples’ Institute. After the war, the latter In the Northern Peoples’ Institute,
devoted their lives to stopped working. In 1953, two Leningrad’s a constant link to the regional
university teams of the Northern studies
administration of the North, Siberia,
the academic activity, were united under Leningrad State and Far East is established on the cadres
learning languages, Pedagogical Institute n. a. A.I. Hertsen. training issues. The treaties on the
cooperation in this field are signed with
The former students of LSU were dispersed
history, folklore, and into various faculties of LSPI. The activity the regions such as Yamal-Nenets AD,
the ethnography of the of three Leningrad’s educational centres, Chukotka AD, Nenets AD, Khanty-Mansy
AD, the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Buryat
where the Northerners got education, was
native people interconnected. Their founders were the Republic, Tyva Republic, Komi Republic,
same preeminent experts in the Northern Krasnoyarsk Territory, Transbaikal
studies: V.G. Bogoraz-Tan, V.I. Tsintsius, Territory, Khabarovsk Territory
and G.M. Vasilevich. the Primorye, Kamchatka Territory,
For several decades of work on the Sakhalin, Murmansk, Amur, Chita,
preparation of the qualified cadres for Kemerovo, Tomsk, Tyumen, Leningrad
the Northern regions, the RSPU n. a. Regions, and etc. On the NPI language
A.I. Hertsen has made a significant departments, more than 20 languages of
contribution to the intellectual elite the indigenous small in numbers peoples
forming from the indigenous small in from the North, Siberia, and Far East are
numbers peoples of the North, Siberia, taught. The special achievement of the
and Far East as well as to the forming of teachers and graduates from the NPI is the
the national educated staff: more than preparation of exercise books and manuals
50 graduates from the faculty of the Far in the native languages for the Northern
North Peoples became writers and poets, educational institutions being publicised
more than 60 – scientists-experts in the in the collaboration with the publishing
Northern studies, and more than 3000 houses “Prosveschenye” and “Drofa”.
– national school teachers. This kind of The Institute departments carry out the
achievement has never been made in any educational and methodical work on the
other higher educational institution of the transition into a level educational system.
RF. The Institute joined the elaboration of a
For all years of its existence, the faculty university innovative programme on the
has fulfilled the task of great historical humanitarian technologies.
and political importance: to keep and In the Northern Peoples’ Institute, a
develop the languages and cultures of museum functions where the specific area
the indigenous small in numbers peoples of activity is developed. It is connected
from the North, Siberia, and Far East. with studying history concerning the
Today the Northern Peoples’ Institute specialist training from the indigenous
is a unique ethno-linguistical and ethno- small in numbers peoples of the North,
cultural, scientific and educational centre Siberia, and Far East in the RSPU n. a. A.I.
where pedagogical personnel of the Hertsen as well as the educational role of
high qualification on languages, culture, teachers and graduates of different years
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