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1. INTRODUCTION - the role of Northern games, festivals, and the development
The regional international humanitarian ties developing with of ecological tourism in the innovative system of sustainable
the participation of representatives of the Russian Arctic have been development.
showing interesting results for over thirty years. The social and - the issues of translating images of native languages into Russian
political efforts of states bordering the Arctic Ocean (Denmark, and English with the aim of promotion of the Northern cultures.
Norway, Canada, USA, and Russia), as well as member states Arctic Art & Culture (Gabysheva, Tikhonov and Ignatieva
of the international governmental organization Arctic Council 2015; Romanova 2016; Mathiesen et al 2018) a popular science
(Finland, Iceland, Norway, Canada, Russia, Sweden, and the USA) magazine, published as a pilot project since 2015 in Russian
in the "region inhabited by various economic systems and societies" and English with an electronic version and multimedia content
have long been the object of study and research of social sciences, (Ignatieva and Kharlampieva 2015), became the unifying
including the students of international relations. platform for this. The Arctic theme is studied and explored based
This article discusses the formation of intercultural space in the on the world political approach, which includes the identification
Arctic as an object of scientific knowledge for those who specialize of principles of global policy formation, regional provisions, and
in international humanitarian relations, cultural studies, translation, the practice of international cooperation (Kharlampieva 2016).
and linguistics. Cooperation between the representatives of two This approach served as the basis for the journal concept and
higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation – experts in the discussion of the Arctic culture and arts at annual seminars
international relations of St. Petersburg University and cultural studies in Yakutsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Dudinka in Taymyr
of the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts allowed to identify the attended by the authors and stakeholders. As any journal that
following objects of scientific knowledge at the initial stage: brings together experienced professionals, Arctic Art & Culture
- the study of the evolution of values of self-identification and has aroused great interest and is evolving into an interdisciplinary
communication of peoples living in the Russian Arctic; platform for the promotion of scientific knowledge about
intercultural communication, creating an intercultural space
...the evolution of values of self- in the Arctic. Thus, the efforts on identification and support of
centers for the preservation and development of tangible and
identification and communication of intangible assets of indigenous peoples not only in the North,
peoples living in the Russian Arctic, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation but also in the
entire Arctic are obvious; on creating conditions for discussing
the role of Northern games and a scientifically based assessment of the cultural and artistic
festivals, development of ecological assets of the Arctic peoples, maintaining a constant record of
their origins, status and conditions of conservation, ways to aid
tourism in the Arctic, as well as issues conservation and development; on the participation of a wide
of translation of the native language range of specialists in comparing and enriching the cultures and
arts of the Arctic peoples to the present day. Also, these and
imagery into Russian and English other issues draw attention to the cultural heritage of the Arctic,
with the aim of promotion of the which may become the object of the international humanitarian
policy of the Arctic states and regional international associations
Northern cultures in promoting the invaluable traditions of the tangible and

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