Altai State University holds an international scientific conference dedicated to the interaction of Slavic and Turkic
More than 80 scientists, historians, ethnographers, culturologists from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Belarus, participate in the conference "Socio-economic and cultural aspects of the interaction of the Slavic and Turkic peoples of the USSR: results and prospects", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Soviet state.
The forum is organized by the REC of Altaic and Turkic Studies "The Greater Altai" of Altai State University with the participation of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, the Kyrgyz National University named after J. Balasagyn, the Association of Asian Universities, V.A. Shamanov Foundation "Defenders of the Fatherland". The conference is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Government of Altai Krai and the Altai Krai Legislative Assembly, the Russian Historical Society and the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly. Media partners are TV channel "Big Asia" and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Head of the REC of Altaic and Turkic studies "The Greater Altai", President of Altai State University Sergey Zemlyakov noted the high interest in the conference in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union:
- The conference will bring together 40 Russian scientists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Gorno-Altaisk, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Ufa and Simferopol, almost 50 scientists from the countries of the former Soviet Union - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Belarus. The purpose of the conference is to discuss the historical experience of interaction between the Slavic and Turkic peoples of Soviet Central Asia, the practices of their interethnic communication in the economic, social, and cultural spheres. The main task of the international scientific dialogue is to analyze not only the positive experience of the national policy of the USSR, but also those decisions that negatively influenced the development of interethnic communications within the Soviet state.
According to Zauresh Saktaganova, Professor of Karaganda State University, the conference participant, the experience of almost 70 years of existence of the USSR will contribute to the formulation of many problems and will allow discussing many debatable issues on Soviet history, including analyzing the historical experience of implementing national policy in the regions, as well as the peculiarities of the relationship between national republics with a center.
"I think that today the role and place of Kazakhstan in the Soviet state needs to be studied from new conceptual positions in order to get away from the old Soviet tradition, when we spoke exclusively about achievements, but at the same time, one should not slide into anti-Soviet assessments," noted Professor Saktaganova.
The conference at AltSU will be held for two days. Five key topics of the conference are "The formation of the USSR and the national-territorial construction of the Soviet republics: a look through the 100th anniversary," "Economic processes in the USSR," "Problems of interethnic relations in the USSR and the collapse of the country," "Development of national cultures in the USSR," "The historical experience of interaction between the Slavic and Turkic peoples of the USSR as the basis of modern socio-cultural integration processes in Eurasia."