The project of AltSU scientists received the support of the Russian Science Foundation

According to the results of the competitive selection, 406 projects of research teams with no more than 10 people were announced as winners.

The winners included the project of the flagship university in Altai Krai led by Head of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Studies in Archeology of Western Siberia and Altai of Altai State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, Professor Anatoly P. Derevyanko “Migrations and Ethno-Cultural Interactions as Factors in the Formation of Multi-ethnic Societies on the Territory of the Greater Altai in Ancient Times and the Middle Ages: an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Archaeological and Anthropological Materials”.

The grant will amount to 6 million rubles annually. The project will be implemented in 2020–2022.
It is worth noting that for Altai State University the past year 2019 was a record in the number of ongoing projects supported by the Russian Science Foundation.
Three projects of the flagship university in Altai Krai won the grants competition in the priority area of the RSF “Conducting fundamental research and exploratory research by individual research groups”. In particular:

• “Microevolutionary phenomena (hybridization, polyploidy) in the largest families of vascular plants in Eurasia using model taxa as an example” (project manager, Candidate of Biological Sciences Dmitry.A. German (South Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University));
•  “Religion and power: historical experience of state regulation of the activities of religious communities in Western Siberia and adjacent regions of Kazakhstan in the XIX-XX centuries.” (project manager, Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Political History, National and State-Confessional Relations Petr.K. Dashkovsky);
•  “Socio-economic modernization of the Central Asian outskirts of the Russian Empire: interdisciplinary methods of reconstruction and performance evaluation” (project manager, Doctor of History, Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies Yulia A. Lysenko).

Earlier, three more research works of AltSU scientists received grant support from the Russian Science Foundation and in 2019 won competitions to extend their implementation.
In particular, this is the project “The Formation and Evolution of Life Support Systems for Altai Nomadic Societies and Adjacent Territories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Complex Reconstruction” led by Aleksey A. Tishkin, Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Department of Archeology, Ethnography and Museology, who received the first grant from the Russian Science Foundation in 2016.

In 2017, Yelena A. Bryukhanova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Document Management, Archival Studies and Historical Informatics of the History Department of AltSU won the competition for the Presidential Program for Young Researchers of the Russian Science Foundation with the project “Information Support for Historical Science: Online Representation of the Materials of the First General Census of the Russian Empire 1897 ”, and in 2018 - the project“ Social Systems of Altai Nomads of the Early Iron Age and Middle Ages: Statistical and a contextual analysis of archaeological materials ”, led by Nikolai N. Seregin, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies of Archeology of Western Siberia and Altai.