THE ALL-RUSSIAN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE “ORIENTAL STUDIES AND FIELD RESEARCH”

The article is an overview of the All-Russian Academic Conference “Oriental Studies and Field Research”, which was held on April 19–20, 2021, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in both off-line and online formats. The talks of the participants covered the problems, results and prospects of various directions of oriental field research, that is archaeological, underwater-archaeological, epigraphic, ethnographic, linguistic, anthropological, and others. Many presentations contained the latest findings of the field research. The geography of the presented surveys covered such countries as Russia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Abkhazia. The event was attended by more than 30 specialists — historians, culturologists, philologists, sociologists, — representatives of 17 organizations, academic institutions, museums, schools of higher education, such as the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS, the Institute of Archeology RAS, the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Institute of World Literature RAS, the Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Makhtumkuli University, Russian State University for the Humanities, the Sevastopol State University, and others. The organizer of this academic symposium was the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS.