The department carries out comprehensive studies on the problem of the development of traditional cultures: ethnic, ethno-confessional, migrant and other minority groups in historical dynamics, in the context of interethnic relations and intercultural interaction between the peoples of the Far East and neighboring countries and territories. The staff of the department made a significant contribution to the study of current issues of ethnography, ethnology and anthropology of the peoples of the Russian Far East and neighboring countries and territories:
- ethnic history, traditional culture and traditional nature management of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East in the 17th-21st centuries;
- Russia and the peoples of the Far East: the experience of civilizational and cultural interaction;
- the role and status of women in society and in family of the indigenous peoples of the Lower Amur and Sakhalin Island;
- Eastern Slavic population of the Russian Far East: the development of traditions and transmission of cultural heritage to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America (second half of the 19th—21st centuries);
- Russians in New Zealand: problems of history and ethno-cultural adaptation;
- Orthodox medicine in the traditional culture of the Eastern Slavs;
- ethnopolitical situation, ethnic migrants and interethnic relations in the Russian Far East in the 20th — early 21st centuries.
Staff of the Department
- Galina G.Ermak (Cand. sc.) Head of Dept, Lead researcher
- Oksana P.Fedirko (Dr.Sc.) Lead Researcher (
Curriculum vitæ) - Anatoliy F.Startsev (Dr.Sc.) Cheaf researcher (
Curriculum vitæ) - Yuliya V.Argudyaeva (Dr.Sc., Prof.) Cheaf researcher
- Galina S.Popovkina (Cand. sc.) Senior research fellow (Curriculum vitæ)
- Elena V. Rudnikova (Cand. sc.) Senior research fellow ( Curriculum vitæ)
- Elena V.Fadeeva (Cand. sc.) Research fellow ( Curriculum vitæ)
- Irina V. Streltsova Junior Researcher