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education, systematizing research in their arts and culture, and accumulating
creative ideas and intellectual resources to preserve their cultural diversity.
“Circumpolar Civilization in World Museums: Past, Present, Future” (http://
arcticmuseum.com/) has also been developed in association with UNESCO.
This project shows how, despite the harsh climatic conditions, northern
Russia’s subpolar communities have managed to survive and develop highly
distinctive cultures and lifestyles. They are part of a civilization referred to by
the research community as “circumpolar” and dating back thousands of years.
Here are some of the proposals concerning further efforts to support and
promote the northern indigenous peoples’ languages, arts and culture:
1. In order to improve native subpolar communities’ access to information
resources, the elaboration and implementation of the Programme for Promoting
Indigenous Cultural and Linguistic Diversity should be recognized as a priority
of Russia’s Information Society Development Strategy (this task will be hard to
fulfill without serious government support in the form of a target programme);
2. Setting up an association of developers of online resources on indigenous
peoples’ cultural and linguistic diversity and building an integrated e-library
based on digitized content from Yakutia’s Republican Library, complete with a
common electronic catalogue;
3. Recommending to the Yakut government that it place a state order for
programmes to train, retrain and upgrade specialists in culture-related IT at
the Arctic Insitute of Arts and Culture, in line with the new, third-generation
national educational standards.
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