IV international scientific-practical conference "Peoples and cultures of Sayan-Altai and adjacent territories"

The capital of the Republic of Khakassia, the city of Abakan, and the Askiz region of Khakassia hosted the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference «Peoples and Cultures of SayanAltai and Adjacent Territories» from September 27 to 30, 2017. The Conference was dedicated to the 155-th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding son of the Khakasses, a prominent Orientalist, a Turkologist, a doctor of comparative linguistics, a professor at the Kazan Imperial University, Nikolai Fedorovich Katanov (1862-1922). Purpose. We review the work of the conference in order to inform the researchers on this important event. The work was organized in several sectional sessions. The subject matter was various aspects of the history of Southern Siberia and the adjacent regions of Eurasia since ancient times, as well as some issues of linguistics, folklore and literature of the peoples of Central Asia. In addition, it was planned to determine the tasks of studying the large-scale scientific heritage of N. F. Katanov. Results. Work of this scientific forum was led by the Heads of the Government and the Supreme Council of the Republic of Khakassia, with participating teachers and scientists from Turkey, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Yakutia, Tuva, Altai, Khakassia, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo and Tyumen. Novosibirsk State University was represented by the head of the Humanitarian Research Laboratory, Associate prof. S. G. Skobelev. By the beginning of the conference, the Organizing Committee, which was represented by the spokespeople from the Government and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Khakassia, the Administration of the Askiz Region and the Khakass Research Institute of the Language, Literature and History, had prepared the forum materials in the form of a collection of articles «Peoples and Cultures of Southern Siberia and Adjacent Territories» (Abakan, 2017, 292 p). Within the frameworks of the conference, there was a presentation of two previously unpublished works by N. F. Katanov: 1) «Journey through Siberia, Dzungaria and East Turkestan». Diary of a journey made on behalf of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in 1890 by an associate member N. F. Katanov; Tatar (Khakass) language (Sagay dialect). Grammar (Etymology and Syntax) (1882); 2) Monograph «The Epistolary Heritage of N. F. Katanov (devoted to the 155th anniversary of his birth)». During the conference, its participants visited several museums and archaeological sites of different eras on the territory of the Askiz Municipal District of Khakassia, where N. F. Katanov came from. Conclusion. The conference was an important stage both in the work on studying the rich scientific heritage of N. F. Katanov and in solving a number of topical problems of archaeology, ethnography and the history of the peoples of Southern Siberia and adjacent territories.