06.11.2024
Project Director, RSUH Vice-Rector for Research Olga Pavlenko explained that the Interactive Atlas, which was started in 2021 on the initiative of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, presents the history and modern life of each of the indigenous peoples of the country, tells about the development and research of the Russian North, the Arctic.
The organizers of the project announced the launch of the full version of the portal to be held on National Unity Day. The presentation of the Atlas took place on Tuesday at TASS.
"This large creative research project, which we are presenting today in its full-scale format, is entering the digital space and will be available to everyone. What are we proud of in Russia? Of our multinationality. At the same time, 40 of its peoples are the small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, who, despite their small numbers, are amazing in their vitality and uniqueness. The Atlas shows this wealth of our country," said Nina Veisalova, Director of the Center for Traditional Knowledge and Languages of Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.
Project Director Olga Pavlenko explained that the Atlas, which had been started in 2021 on the initiative of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, presented the history and modern life of each of the small-numbered peoples of the country and told about the development of the Russian North, the Arctic.
"It also contains digital settlement maps from the moment of settlement, from the Middle Ages to the present day. We see how the habitats emerged, how the peoples created their unique living space,” Pavlenko said.
The work on the project began in 2021, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science having assigned it to RSUH. The project’s Academic Director Valery Tishkov, said that four leading academic institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, including the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology and the Kunstkamera Museum, had also participated in the creation of the atlas. Representatives of the small-numbered peoples of Russia were also involved in the project.
