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ASIAC’s study programmes will soon be enriched with a new modular on
indigenous Arctic heritage. A number of original multimedia teaching aids
have been developed especially for this modular, including Yuri Sheikin’s
“Musical Culture of the Peoples of the North” and “Musical Culture of Siberia’s
Reindeer-Breeding Communities.”
Its IT-related achievements include the creation of three links Websites with
original content on culture and the arts of the subpolar region’s indigenous
inhabitants: “Yakutia’s Memory,” “Kuyaar,” and “Circumpolar Civilization in
World Museums: Past, Present, Future.”
“Yakutia’s Memory” (http://www.sakhamemory.ru) is a collaborative project
designed by ASIAC in association with Yakutia’s Republican Library and
Archives, the Yakut State Museum of History and Culture, and the Republican
Heritage Film Archives. The project is aimed at facilitating preservation and
access to valuable documents on the arts and culture in the Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia), including manuscripts, printed books, film footage, photographs,
and audio recordings. It incorporates the following six subprojects:
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• Yakutia: Literary monuments;
• Bibliography of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia);
• Voices of the Century: Music and Audio Heritage of the Republic of
Sakha’s Indigenous Communities;
• Yakutia Archives: Documents of Value;
• Yakutia: Film Chronicles;
• Yakutia: Photographic Chronicles.
“Kuyaar” web site (www.kuyaar.ru) provides a window on the cultural
diversity and education of Yakutia’s small indigenous peoples. It is run in
partnership with UNESCO’s Moscow Office, and benefits from technical
assistance by the North-Eastern Federal University’s Centre for Innovative
Information Technology. The ambition of this multilingual site, available in
Russian, English, Yakut and Evenki, is to contribute to the promotion and
further development of Yakutia’s indigenous communities’ cultural diversity,
creative activity and communication by spreading knowledge about their
heritage. The idea was suggested by the republic’s Deputy Prime Minister
Feodosia Gabysheva and supported by the Minister of Culture and Spiritual
Development, Andrei Borisov. Content for the Website www.kuyaar.ru
is selected with a view to promoting the culture and folklore of Yakutia’s
indigenous peoples, generalizing the experience of their cultural practices in