The revival of the traditions of intellectual values of the Tatar population of St. Petersburg is an important component in the activities of the St. Petersburg Cultural and Educational Center of the Kayum Nasyri Institute of KFU. And the most important thing is that there is always a sense of ease and a desire to creatively speak the Tatar language in the classroom. Such interest is promoted by the natural environment of immersion in the native language.

The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Renat Valiullin, welcomed the students of the Tatar language Courses. The oral introductory course of the new academic year 2023/2024 is now ending, followed by topics on grammar according to L.H. Shayakhmetova’s textbook “Tatar language for beginners” and according to M.Y. Kuznetsov’s textbook “Tatar from scratch”. And as an additional material on communication exercises and a reference book – according to the textbook of K.S. Fathullova. Currently, intensive preparations are underway for the World Dictation “Tatarcha Yaz” in a format intended for the regions of Russia and abroad.

The educational part of the study ended with “Gumilyov readings”. As part of the events of the Cultural and Educational Center of the Kayum Nasyri Institute of KFU and the cultural and educational project “Tatar Living Room”, an open lecture on the topic “Mobilization of ideas: N.S.Gumilev and L.N.Gumilev in the service of the Fatherland” was held at the Tatar Cultural Center of St. Petersburg. Alexey Bondarev, Candidate of Cultural Studies, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Culture of A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, delivered a lecture on the birthday of historian-ethnologist, scientist Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev.

Firaya Rashitova
Methodologist-teacher of the KЕC Institute of Kayum Nasyri KFU