Chuvash State Institute of Humanities

Director of the Institute - P. S. Krasnov, Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Science and Development - G.A. Nikolaev, Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Deputy Director for Organizational Work and Economics - N. I. Bakin.

1930-1991

On August 17, 1930, the secretariat of the Chuvash regional committee of the CPSU (b) decided to reorganize the Council of Science and Culture , founded in April 1928, into a research institute. On August 18, 1930, the Council of People's Commissars of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic formed the Chuvash Complex Research Institute on the basis of the Council of Science and Culture. In August 1932, the institute underwent reorganization: on the basis of the agricultural sector of the Chuvash Integrated Research Institute, the Research Institute for Socialist Reconstruction of Agriculture was established (existed until 1934). On August 10, 1933, the Council of People's Commissars of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic reorganized the Chuvash Complex Research Institute into two institutions: the Chuvash Research Institute of Industry (lasted until 1936) and the Chuvash Research Institute of Social and Cultural Construction . On August 25, 1938, by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the institute was renamed the Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature and History . On January 1, 1948, according to the Decree of the Government of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of November 14, 1947, the institute was transferred to the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and became known as the Chuvash Scientific-Research Institute of Language, Literature and History under the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In January 1956, an economic sector was organized. From that moment, the institute became known as the Chuvash Research Institute of Language, Literature, History and Economics under the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Since 1991

In August 1991, the building of the institute became the headquarters of counteraction to the USSR Emergency Committee in Cheboksary. On August 19, 1991, Chuvash scientists and scientists, representatives of the humanitarian and technical intelligentsia, deputies of the Supreme Council of Czechoslovakia, the Cheboksary City Council, activists of the Democratic Reforms Movement (DDR), and representatives of the public gathered in the building. The Minister of Justice of the RSFSR Nikolai Fedorov, who was in Cheboksary that day, said that the State Emergency Committee was illegal and that he was urgently leaving for Moscow. ^[one]

On May 4, 1994, by decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic, the institute was renamed the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities . The institute celebrated its 80th anniversary under the name of the State Scientific Institution "Chuvash State Institute of Humanities."

By January 1, 1999, 68 people worked at the institute, including 38 researchers, including 3 doctors and 20 candidates of sciences.

By November 1, 2010, the Institute has 85 people (part-time): 55 researchers, including 10 doctors and 29 candidates of science, 12 employees without a degree, as well as 2 laboratory assistants and 2 research assistants.

The scientific center includes 8 scientific departments:

• archeology;
• art history;
• stories;
• literary criticism and folklore;
• sociology;
• Chuvash encyclopedia;
• ethnology and anthropology;
• linguistics,

and:

• edition of dictionaries and serial editions;
• publishing department;
• scientific Library;
• scientific archive.

The priority task of the institute is the development of fundamental scientific research. In the field of linguistics, the problems of the modern Chuvash literary language, Chuvash terminology, the historical development of the Chuvash language, and the social functioning of the language are studied. Work is underway to create a machine stock of the Chuvash language and compile dictionaries: explanatory, toponymic, translations, a directory of new words and meanings. In the field of literary criticism and folklore, the main studies are carried out in the following areas: compilation of works by classics of the Chuvash literature, study of the literary and creative process, creation of a 50-volume code of Chuvash folk art. In the field of art criticism, the current state of the visual, musical, and theatrical arts, their historical and national origins, and the work of individual cultural and art workers are studied. An important place is occupied by research on topical problems of the history of the region and the Chuvash people, such as: the history of Chuvashia of the 20th century, the development of entrepreneurship in the Volga region, the history of the cities of the republic, the material and spiritual culture of the people, the ritual system, the Chuvash diaspora in Russia, anthropological monitoring of the population of Chuvashia, social problems of the development of the Chuvash Republic at the present stage. In 2001, the Brief Chuvash Encyclopedia was prepared and published, in 2006 the first volume of the multivolume Chuvash Encyclopedia, a universal scientific reference publication on the Chuvash people and the Chuvash Republic, the second volume was published in 2008, the third volume in 2009 ., the publication of the fourth volume is scheduled for 2011.

Over the years, the Institute has published more than 700 books, conducted about 500 scientific conferences and sessions, and 130 expeditions (ethnographic, archaeological, dialectological, folklore, and sociological).

The institute is engaged in publishing activities. Recently, the operational printing department publishes 15-20 monographs, collections of articles, dictionaries, etc. annually. The following publications are available in the Institute's book production sales fund:

• Bekshansky P. Tales of Sespel. Cheboksary, 1999. 68 p .; Rubis N. Meetings with Sespel. Cheboksary, 1999.86 p .; Kuzmin G. My brother is winged. Cheboksary, 1999.56 s. (A souvenir set of three books (memoirs of P. Bekshansky, N. Rubis, G. Kuzmin) in the cassette).
• Viktorov Yu. V. Petr Kiparisov: artist and teacher. Cheboksary, 1999.214 s.
• Ivanov V.P. Chuvash diaspora. Ethnographic reference. Cheboksary, 1999.316 s.
• History of the Chuvash Republic. Bibliographic index. Cheboksary, 1996.401 s.
• Classic Chuvash literature Mikhail Fedorov. Cheboksary, 1998.144 s. In the Chuvash language.
• Composer Alexander Vasiliev: Collection of articles. Cheboksary, 1999.183 s.
• Materials on the ethnography and anthropology of the Chuvash: Collection of articles. Cheboksary, 1999.192 p.
• Ovchinnikov N.V. Mig between the past and the future. Cheboksary, 1998.128 s.
• Entrepreneurship of the Volga region: sources, traditions, problems and development trends. Conference proceedings. Cheboksary, 1998.336 s.
• Problems of the national in the development of the Chuvash people: Collection of articles. Cheboksary, 1999.330 s.
• One hundred stanzas from Chuvash aphoristic poetry. Compiled by M. G. Kondratiev. Cheboksary, 1998.144 s. In Chuvash and Russian languages.
• Fedorov G.I. Art world of Chuvash prose. Cheboksary, 1996. 304 p.
• Fedotov M.R. Dictionary of Chuvash non-Christian personal names. Cheboksary, 1999.148 s.
• Fedotov M.R. Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language. I — II volumes. Cheboksary, 1996.
• Chuvash art. Questions of theory and history: Collection of articles. Issue 3. Cheboksary, 1997.256 s.
• Chuvash linguistics: Collection of articles. Cheboksary, 1999.193 s. In the Chuvash language.
• Economic Reforms and Stabilization of Production: A Collection of Articles. Cheboksary, 1997.176 s.

The 4-volume Chuvash Encyclopedia has been published.

• Chuvash dictionaries

• Official site of the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities .
• Old version of the site of the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities .
• Chuvash State Institute of Humanities .