On May 11, 2024 the international round table “Russian old-settlers of Mongolia: history, language, culture” was held at at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in Ulaanbaatar. It was organized under the Russian Science Foundation project No. 23-18-00478 ‘Russians in Mongolia. Comprehensive study of culture in a foreign ethic environment (folklore, ritual traditions, language)’ (led by V.L. Klyaus).
The program of the round table:
Welcome speech. J. Bat-Ireedui (PhD, Professor, Director of the Institute of Language and Literature of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar)
A.N. Bitkeeva (DSc in Philology, Institute of Linguistics RAS, Institute of World Literature RAS, Moscow): Socio-cultural and linguistic adaptation of the Russian diaspora in Mongolia
V.L. Klyaus (DSc in Philology, Institute of World Literature RAS, Moscow): Russian and Mongolian mythological narratives in the folklore of Russian old-settlers of Mongolia
Ts. Sarantsatsral (DSc in Philology, Professor at Ulaanbaatar University, Ulaanbaatar): The Russian language in Mongolia (based on the materials of the MAS-RFBR project)
D.B. Sundueva (DSc in Cultural Studies, Transbaikal State University, Chita): Mongolia in the letters and memoirs of the Russian old-settlers
M. Otgonmandakh (Institute of History and Ethnology MAS, Ulaanbaatar): Russian old-settlers of Mongolia: patriotic and peacemaking Activities
A.V. Isakov (Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies SB RAS, Ulan-Ude): The History of the Russian old-settlers in A. Veretnova’s novel “Belaya Mongolka”
E.A. Volkova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow): Religious Practices of the Russian old-settlers of Mongolia
Closing Remarks. A. Alimaa (Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Language and Literature MAS, Ulaanbaatar)
The presentations at the conference reflected the interim results of the team’s work during the first two years of the project implementation, including the results of field research in Mongolia and Buryatia.
