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Anna Kuznetsova
Anna Kuznetsova (born 1991), is a PhD student at the University of Tartu, and has studied language policies of the Finno-Ugric regions of Russia and institutions working on the issues of the Russian Finno-Ugric peoples using the examples of the Komi, Sami, and Karelians. She is working on a thesis devoted to the activities, policies,…
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Tõnno Jonuks
Tõnno Jonuks is a research professor at Estonian Literary Museum and a research fellow at Tallinn University. An archaeologist by training, his main research has focused on (pre)historic religions in Estonia and on the materiality of religion as a method. In addition, he has been involved in several research projects to study historical and contemporary…
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Aimar Ventsel
Aimar Ventsel has studied Siberia and the Russian Far East since 1995. He wrote his MA thesis about the urban identity of Western Siberian Khanty and Mansy youth, being one of the first scholars to study indigenous life in the urban environment. Ventsel’s doctoral thesis was about the transition economy in the Republic Of Sakha,…
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Mare Kõiva
Mare Kõiva is a senior researcher of the Estonian Literary Museum. She has studied the role of ethnocosmology and myths in creating social identities; ethnic component in neo-religions, and the role of small cultures and languages in sociocultural landscape. Kõiva participates in international networks and working groups that study the abovementioned topics. She has organised…
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Nikolay Kuznetsov
Nikolay Kuznetsov is a lecturer in Finno-Ugric languages at Tartu University, and a researcher in the Estonian Literary Museum. He has studied Komi morphology and morphosyntax, he wrote his PhD thesis about semantics of Komi locative cases from the viewpoint of cognitive grammar. He’s compiled the Komi-Hungarian dictionary (2003) and Estonian-Komi online-dictionary (2022), he’s translated…
Activities of Arctic Indigenous Organizations
