The Presidential Library: New Acquisitions

The holdings of Presidential Library have enriched with audio recordings from the cycle of information and educational programs "Russia Team", aired at the radio station "Nashe Radio". The programs tell of the history, culture, religion and customs of the peoples living and inhabiting the territory of Russia.

Today we offer to learn about the first 70 of 170 releases.

 The first program of the cycle the National Census 2002 is an overview of the ethnic composition of the population of Russia of the early XXI century.

Several releases are dedicated to the ancestors of Russian and other modern Slavic peoples - the ancient Slavs and their pagan beliefs (deity, holidays, views on life after death, of love and marriage), as well as the Baptism of Russia and the spread of Christianity.

A number of programs tells about the many indigenous peoples of Russia - the Russians (part 1, part 2), their anthropology, during the addition of ethnicity, statehood, the Russian national character, the impact on the nature of it (part 1, part 2), cold and hunger, wars, of such as Russian character as kindness, a sense of "freedom", of equality and community.

The programs acquaint with other indigenous peoples of Russia - such as the Tatars (the history before the formation of the Kazan Khanate, the taking of Kazan, the Tatars role in Russian history, religion, popular expressions, national dwelling, a national holiday sabantui), the Bashkir (rituals, participation in the Patriotic War of 1812, the national drink fermented mare's milk), the Chuvash (Part 1, Part 2, religion), the Adyghes (society and religion, nobility, the relationship with the Russians), the Mari (Part 1, Part 2), the Mordovians (Part 1, Part 2), the Udmurt (national character and tradition, culture and religion), the Nenets (culture and religion), the Hunt (culture), the Mansi (Part 1, Part 2), the Enets.

Also the cycle presents extinct peoples of Russia, such as the Avars, the Balts, the Bulgars, the Goths, the Huns, Meria, Murom, Meschera, the Pechenegs (wars with Rus’), the Polovtsians (Part 1, Part 2), the Sarmatians, the Scythians, the Torquay, Khazars (religion, the Khazar Khanate (Part 1, Part 2).) One of the releases relates to the fictional peoples of Russia according to census 2002.

The publication of new materials continues.