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Education

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in keeping languages and cultures of the Northern Lights” works successfully on Y.P. Chistyakov, V.A. Ignatov, M.Y.
Northern ethnos. The museum director the NPI basis. It preserves and advocates Barmich, N.N. Kyakshto, N.I. Batozhok,
is Arkadiy Ivanovich Gashilov, PhD in the original Northern peoples’ art not only L.K. Savinova, and A.A. Petrov. Now the
Philology, Assistant Professor of the in Russia but also abroad. director of the Northern Peoples’ Institute
Ural Languages, Folklore, and Literature The main achievement of the NPI is is Lyudmila Borisovna Gashilova, who
Department. its great contribution into the Russian is a Nivkh and a graduate of Hertsen’s
In the Northern Peoples’ Institute, the education. Many graduates of the University, PhD, Assistant Professor of
unique ethno-psychological atmosphere Northern Peoples’ Institute, the Northern the Paleo-Asian Languages, Folklore, and
and the international communication faculty of LSU, the Northern division Literature Department.
medium are created. They let students be and the faculty of LSPI – the RSPU n. Russia’s Northern peoples have got
introduced into the context of the integral a. A.I. Hertsen devoted their lives to the their own institute. As before, the young
cultural and educational space of the Far academic activity, learning languages, Northerners come here for getting
East, be prepared for mutually beneficial history, folklore, and the ethnography knowledge from all territories. The
professional and cultural contacts with of the native people. Almost all native modern Northern Peoples’ Institute
other regions as well as Northern peoples’ languages teachers in the Northern regions of Hertsen’s University is a dignified
representatives, and, at last, master are graduates of the NPI. The training successor and adherent to the famous
the richness of the Russian language, system established in the institute led Northern Studies Traditions of those
culture, and literature. Since 1999, the to the emergence of highly qualified institutions in Leningrad – St. Petersurg
Northern Peoples’ Institute together professionals among the Northern peoples where the specialists’ training for the
with the UNESCO’s department has held in the autonomous districts and national regions of the North, Siberia, and the Far
the annual International academic and regions. They do their best to raise the East is implemented.
practical conference “Ethnos Reality”. Its educational level of the local population The Northern Peoples’ Institute is a
membership represents more than 50 cities and retain the Northern ethnos’ languages. recognised scientific and educational
and Russia’s regions as well as foreign In different periods, the Northern Peoples’ centre of the Russian Northern Studies.
research organisations. In the institute, division/faculty/institute of the RSPU
the post-graduate study on 4 specialities n. a. A.I. Hertsen was headed by G.N. The source is the NPI site: https://www.her-
functions. The folklore theatre studio “The Nikulin, L.V. Belikov, V.I. Matveev, zen.spb.ru/main/structure/inst/ins

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