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Anatoly ZHOZHIKOV
Director, New Information Technologies Centre,
North-Eastern Federal University
(Yakutsk, Russian Federation)
North-Eastern Federal University:
Strategic Action Lines to Promote Cultural Diversity
of Indigenous Communities of the Russian North
in Cyberspace
The cultural and linguistic diversity of the Russian North’s small indigenous
peoples has been an object of increasingly close attention of late. Attesting to
this is the ever-growing number of forums focused on the topic.
The 1 st International Conference on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in
Cyberspace, which took place in the Republic of Sakha’s capital, Yakutsk, in
July 2008, is among the most important such events held so far, with its final
document, the Lena Resolution, acclaimed globally.
Another recent international gathering of note is the symposium “Circumpolar
Cultures in the Museums Worldwide: Past, Present and Future,” hosted by
the Yakut capital July 29 through August 1, 2009. Held under UNESCO’s
patronage, the event focused on the following issues:
• Dialogue of Subarctic cultures in the context of cultural diversity;
• Preserving and passing on the ethno-cultural heritage of Subarctic
communities;
• Museology and the use of information technology;
• Role of the world’s museums in enhancing knowledge about
circumpolar cultures.
This conference brought together about a hundred delegates from 13 of
Russia’s regions, as well as from 14 foreign countries. Its final documents
include Recommendations on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity:
• consolidating the museum community’s efforts to organize expeditions
in search of new acquisitions, as well as to process, study and conserve
circumpolar heritage objects already held by museums across the world;
• stepping up work to promote knowledge about the diversity and
cohesion of circumpolar cultures through a Web links page, to be
created by partner nations in association with UNESCO and the
International Council of Museums (ICOM).
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