2026. Issue 2 (32)

	THE SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF THE KUNSTKAMERA
	Mazalova N. The Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Ethnography in the 1960s–1980s: Science — Scholars — Teachers	6
	Kotin I., Soboleva E. The Second Life of Nina G. Krasnodembskaya, Indologist and Sri Lanka Scholar	30
	Albogachieva M. Contribution of the Scholars of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography to the Study of the Abaza People: Teachers and Students	43
	Danilova E. Innokenty Stepanovich Vdovin: His Creative Path and Scientific Legacy	53
	Domrachev D. The Scholarly and Pedagogical Legacy of T. A. Shrader	69
	Ivanov D. The Commission for the Study of the Tribal Composition of the Population of the USSR, K. V. Vyatkina and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography	85
	EPOS
	Emelianov V. Religion and Discourse in the Sumerian “Controversy of the Ewe and Ezina”	100
	Strazhnikov M. On Irony and the Comic in the Verses of Earl Rǫgnvaldr Kali	116
	Amasya E., Askarbek Amasya G., Sevinch E. Manas in Kyrgyz Society: From National Hero to Protective Spirit	133
	Staneva V. Epic Gesar as a Source on Monguor Mythology	150
	ORIENTAL STUDIES
	Kopaneva D., Belova A., Belov N. Preparation of the “Great” Embassy to Iran of Prince I. I. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Stolnik I. B. Kamynin and Clerk V. Nefedyev (1653–1655)	166
	Vasilenko V. The Buddhist Church of Tuva in the Political Dimension of Russian History (1914 — late 1920s)	180
	Kurov N. The Image of Atatürk in the Perceptions of the Circassian Diaspora of Turkey	192
	Hasanov E. Study of the Ethno-cultural Significance of Religious Factors in the South Siberia during the Middle Ages	206
	VARIA
	Demin E. Preparing the Academy of Sciences for the Bicentennial of Mikhail Lomonosov: Initial Stage and Key Initiatives	218
	Filin P., Shutikhin A. The Experience of Historical and Ethnographic Reconstruction of a Birch Bark Boat of the Amur Type	234