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In any case, this Institute is unusual and has its own atmosphere!

It seems to me that very few foreigners ever heard of the nations living in our country. Maybe they would be interested to get acquainted with their culture, or at least hear their music and watch the dances.

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The building of the Institute is quite old. In wartime there was a school of air force and then there was also the hospital, where the wounded were brought. In this regard, there is a legend in our dormitory and Institute that at night you can see ghosts. And even there are people who really saw them! At night, we hear strange sounds from the second floor, as if someone is moving desks. At night! It's strange, but it's possible that we wind up ourselves.

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I was told a lot about the event "The Reality of Ethnos", it was organized by one of the teachers of the Institute. Why does it have such name? One scientist wrote his work "Requiem for Ethnicity," in which he spoke about the fact that ethnic groups died, their culture and language disappeared and sooner or later, there would be nothing left from these nations. The teacher of Institute decided to prove that this is not so, and he organized an event that is called to say: "No, the culture of small nations is alive and will live." This is a very large-scale event, which attracts people from all districts and other countries. It is very important to save your culture.

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I remember the moment when my roommates were actively preparing for the event in the autumn, the congress of the teachers of the small nations of the north from all over Russia and the neighboring countries of Europe (Estonia, Norway, Finland, etc.) and even from Alaska! They brought national food with them, for example fish, which is found only in their district. My rommate treated me with muksun, this is a fish that is found only in the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug. It was really great.

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In the autumn I was first invited to a concert of the of the ensemble "Northern Lights". They sang songs in the national language, I heard throat singing and the way they masterfully made the sounds of animals and birds. When the dancers and singers began to beat the tambourines, it seemed that my heart started to beat harder in the beats of music. It was so exciting! I never thought that these cultures can so bewitch! I was immersed in the pagan culture of ancient people. By the way, recently my roommate brought tambourines to our hostel and tried to teach me how to beat on them. Of course, some people say that if you are not a shaman it should be prohibited for you to take a tambourine in hand, as the music played with it has a sacred meaning, you can call spirits suddendly..

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We all know and often hear that St. Petersburg is the capital of world cultures, but it is also a center that unites the cultures of small nations living in Russia such as the Khanty, Mansi, Dolgans, Nenets, Saami, Komi, Selkup, Evens, Evenks, Yukogirs, Chukchi, Koryaks, etc. Our city is the only one which has the Institute of the People of the North, which gathers children from different regions of the country so they can  study their native culture and language and after graduating teach other people.

This Institute belongs to Herzen University where I study.  This year I was lucky to be in the dormitory, which is located directly in the building of the Institute. Moreover, my roommates are students of this Institute, so they told me a lot of interesting things about this place.