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Alexander NOVIK, Candidate of Sciences, Head of the Department (cultural and social anthropology, ethnology of Europe, traditional culture of the Balkan Peninsula peoples, traditional culture of Eurasia, contact zones of Eurasia, ethnolinguistics, ethopsychology, ethnoetiquette, mythology, folk medicine and healership, history of costumes, traditional crafts, arts and crafts).
Yuliya IVANOVA-BUCHATSKAYA, Candidate of Sciences, senior researcher (festive practices and objects/attributes in museum collections, urban studies, occupational cultures).
Natalia GOLANT, Candidate of Sciences, researcher (ethnography of the Carpathian-Balkan region, traditional culture of the Eastern Latin peoples, calendar rites, mythology beliefs, ethnolinguistics).
Ilya GUBANOV, Candidate of Sciences, senior researcher (history of Ancient Scandinavian culture and society, Icelandic family sagas, Beowulf, Old English epic, culture of informal communities (Hippies etc.) from the 1960s up to now).
Julietta MESKHIDZE, Candidate of Sciences, researcher (ethnic culture of Southeast Europe, history and culture of the Basques, ethnopolitical history of the Caucasus, European-Caucasian relations).
Tatjana SCHRADER, Candidate of Sciences, senior researcher (ethnocultural contacts of Russia and Scandinavian countries; history of Russian Germans in St. Petersburg and PetersburgProvince).
The Department of Europe of the MAE RAS was established in the early 1990s on the basis of the General Issues Sector. The Department owes its existence to the initiative of Professor A. S. Mylnikov, Honored Scientist of the RF, who was Director of the MAE RAS at that time, and B. N. Putilov, Doctor of Sciences, an outstanding folklore researcher. Under the leadership of A. S. Mylnikov whose research interests covered a widest range of studies of European peoples, the Department functioned until his death early in 2003.
The main lines of the Department’s activity are the studies of the traditional culture of peoples of Scandinavia and Central Europe, the Balkans and the Slav area, Southern and Southeast Europe, Black SeaLand, and AzovLand.
In 2017–2019, the researchers of the Department of Europe contribute are working on the collective topic “Ethnocultural processes in today’s Europe and the Museum: Neighborhoods, Diasporas, and Migrations” (supervisor: A. A. Novik, Candidate of Sciences) as part of the research effort “History of the MAE RAS and its collections in the context of development of human science” (supervisor: Yu. K. Chistov, Doctor of Sciences), and contribute to the projects “Illustrative collections of the Kunstkamera” (supervisor: V. A. Prischepova, Candidate of Sciences) and “Inter-civilization interaction, ethnic history and diversity of the cultural heritage of the world’s Islamic nations in historical dynamics” (supervisor: Ye. A. Rezvan, Doctor of Sciences).
The Department’s researchers have contributed to the program of the language and literature section, History and Philology Division of the RAS “Language and literature in the context of cultural dynamics” (project “Carpathian and Balkan territorial dialects: Reconstruction of traditional culture using language data,” 2012–2014, N. G. Golant), grants of the Russian Human Science Foundation (project “Albanians in Ukraine: The Revived Past. Archiving and attribution of the photo illustration collections of the IEA RAS,” 2012, A. A. Novik, D. S. Yermolin; project “Contact zones of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania: Language and ethnocultural situation under transformation,” 2012–2014, A. A. Novik, D. S. Yermolin; project “Bulgarians of Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia. Experience of life in diaspora,” 2015–2017, N. G. Golant), scholarship fund of the Parliament of Berlin / Studienstiftung des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin (2012–2013, Yu. V. Buchatskaya) etc.
Schrader, Tatiana. Legislative Aspects of the Norwegian Colonization of Murman (1860-1915) // In the North my Nest is made. Studies in the History of the Murman Colonization 1860-1940. St. Petersburg - Tromsö, 2006. P. 61-85.
Novik Alexander, Sobolev Andrey. The Traditional Wedding Costume of the Mrkovići in Montenegro: between Real Heritage and Folk Construction (Materials of the Russian Expeditions in 2012-2014) // Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore. Vol. 66 [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol66/novik_sobolev.pdf (https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2016.66.novik_sobolev). 22 p. (Дата обращения: 22.01.2017).
Buchatskaya Yu. V. Natsiya i identichnosti v Germanii: regionalism / natsionalism / stili zhizni [Nation and identities in Germany: Regionalism / Nationalism / Lifestyles] // Kulturnayaslozhnostsovremennykhnatsiy / Publication editor: V. A. Tishkov, Ye. I. Filippova; Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS. – Moscow: Politicheskaya entsiklopediya, 2016. – 384 pp.: ill. Pp. 115-132.
Golant N. G. Martovskaya starukha i martovskaya nit. Legendy i obryady nachala marta u rumyn [Granny March and the March thread. Romanian legends and rites of early March]. St. Petersburg: MAE RAN, 2013, 284 pp.
Golant N. G. Obryady vesenne-letnego tsikla v Valakhii: Ocherki traditsionnoi kultury [Spring and summer rites in Wallachia: Essays on traditional culture]. Moscow, St. Petersburg: Institute of Slavic Studies of the RAS, MAE RAN, 2014, 222 pp.
Golant N. G. Materialy po kalendarnoi obryadnosti rumyn (vlakhov) doliny Timoka. Zimnyaya obryadnost. [Materials on calendar rites of the Romanians (Vlachs) of the TimokValley. Winter rites] // Karpato-balkanskiy dialektnyi landshaft: Yazyk i kultura. 2012–2014. Issue 3. Moscow, Institute of Slavic Studies of the RAS, 2014, pp. 223–238.
Gollobordë, Albaniya. Iz materialov balkanskoi ekspeditsii RAN i SPbGU 2008-2010 gg. [Gollobordë, Albania. From the materials of the Balkan expedition of the RAS and St. PetersburgUniversity in 2008-2010] / Ed. by Andrei N. Sobolev and Alexander A. Novik // Materialien zum Südosteuropasprachatlas / Herausgegeben von Helmut Schaller und Andrej Sobolev. Band 6. – St. Petersburg: Nauka; München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2013. 272 pp.; ill. [19.1 published sheets]. ISBN 978-5-02-038322-7 (“Nauka”); ISBN 978-3-86688-224-9 (Verlag Otto Sagner).
Gubanov I. B. Kultura i obschestvo skandinavov epokhi vikingov [Scandinavian culture and society of the Viking era] St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 2004, 142 pp.
Gubanov I. B. Bronzovyi vek Severa i Yuga Yevropy: problemy mezhetnicheskikh kontaktov i rekonstruktsiya sotsialnoi struktury drevnego obschestva [Bronze Age of the north and south of Europe: Issues of inter-ethnic contacts and reconstruction of the social structure of ancient society]. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2006, 106 pp.
Gubanov I. B. Islandskiye rodovye sagi kak istochnik po istorii kultury i obschestva Drevnei Skandinavii. Issledovaniye, teksty i perevody [Icelandic favily sagas as a source for the history of culture and society in Ancient Scandinavia. Research, texts, and translations] St. Petersburg: MAE RAN, 2016, 230 pp.
Daudov A. H., Meskhidze D. I. Natsionalnaya gosudarstvennost gorskikh narodov Severnogo Kavkaza (1917-1924 g.) [National state formation of the North Caucasian peoples (1917-1924]. St. Petersburg: St. PetersburgUniversity, 2009, 222 pp.
Yevropeiskoye kulturnoye prostranstvo v kollektsiyakh MAE (Sbornik MAE. T. LVIII) [European cultural space in the MAE collections (MAE Collected Works, vol. LVIII] / Publication editor: A. A. Novik. – St. Petersburg: MAE RAN, 2013, 469 pp. + CD. [48 published sheets]. ISBN 978-5-88431-228-9.
Ivanova-Buchatskaya Yu. V. Plattes Land: Simvoly Severnoi Germanii. Slavyano-germanskiy etnokulturnyi sintez v mezhdurechye Elby i Odera [Plattes Land: Symbols of North Germany. Slav-German ethnocultural synthesis in the Elbe-Oder interfluve]. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2006, 224 pp.
Ivanova-Buchanskaya Yu. V., Alekseeva I. S. Kontrastnaya toponimika: Nemetsko-russkiy i russko-nemetskiy slovar-spravochnik dlya perevodchikov [Contrast toponymy: German-Russian and Russian German glossary for translators]. St. Petersburg: Soyuz, 2006, 112 pp.
MeskhidzeD.I. Italyanskaya interventsiya v Gruziyu v 1919 godu: plany i obstoyatelstva [Italian intervention in Georgia in 1919: Plans and circumstances] // VestnikSankt-PeterburgskogoUniversiteta. Seriya 2. Istoriya. 2007. Issue 1, pp. 127-133.
Novik A. A. Greki [Greeks] // Bolshaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya: V 30 t. / Chairman, Academic Editorial Board: Yu. S. Osipov. Publication editor: S. L. Kravets. Vol. 7. – Moscow: Bolshaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya, 2007, pp. 665-667.
Sidorov S. I., Stojković D., Voronina I. I., Girfanova A. H., Kalinin S. A. Novik A. A. Anglo-serbsko-albanskiy razgovornik dlya sotrudnikov Rossiyskogo kontingenta mezhdunarodnoi politsii OON v Kosovo. [English-Serbian-Albanian Phrasebook for the Russian Police Contingent] / Compiled by S. I. Sidorov. General editorship: A. V. Didenko. – Peć [Kosovo]: United Nations Mission in Kosovo; Dukacini, 2004, 29 pp.
Schrader T. A. Ocherki zhizni shvedskikh kolonistov v Rossii (XIX v.) [Overview of the life of Swedish settlers in Russia (19th century)] // Skandinavskiye chyeniya 2006. Etnographicheskiyeikulturnyeaspekty/ Publication editor: T. A. Schrader. – St. Petersburg: Lema, 2008, pp. 229-253.

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