Tuva.Asia / The New Research of Tuva

The Tuvan State University has celebrated its 15^th anniversary. As part of the anniversary celebrations, the Pedagogical Avenue of the University was opened, and a ceremonial assembly of the collective was held. Also on October 5, the Museum of History and Material Culture of Nomadic Peoples of TyvGU was opened. It is located in one of the suites of the Department of History building of the university. Currently, five glass cases of archeological specimens, as well as ethnographic materials and photographs are on exhibit. Many of the specimens have been collected by the professors and students of the university during various expeditions. In addition, two yurts have been erected in the courtyard of the History building. One of them is Mongolian, from the time of Genghis Khan; the other is a traditional Tuvan yurt with household objects and utensils. The management of TyvGU and the senior professors became the first visitors to the museum.

On October 1, 2010 in the Tuvan Institute for Research in the Humanities under the Government of the Republic of Tuva a celebrated ceremony took place. It was dedicated to the 65^th anniversary of the TIRH and was organized with the participation of representatives of the authorities, scientific and educational communities of the Republic. The partakers recalled the landmarks of the history of the Institute and rendered the tribute to the memory of the scientists, presented reports, honoured the veterans, and awarded the staff members. The director of the TIRH Kaadyr-ool Bicheldei delivered the main report “The Tuvan Institute for Research in the Humanities for 65 Years: History, Problems and Development Prospects”. Doctor of Science (in the field of history), main scientific fellow of the History Sector of the TIRH Nikolay Mollerov was conferred with the title of the Honoured Science Worker of the Republic of Tuva according to the edict of the Head of the Government of the RT Sholban Kara-oola. A memorial plaque in honour of the first director of the Tuvan Institute for Scientific Research in Language, Literature and History (TISRLLH) Leonid Chadamba was unveiled in the alley at the same day.

academic secretary of the TIRH

Thousands of Kazakhs are competing to prove their descent from feared warlord Genghis Khan, as a revival in Kazakh nationalism brings renewed prestige to the country's former aristocracy. In the last three years, more than 300 Kazakhs have sent gene samples to be tested at a US lab and thousands of contenders lobbied to be included in last year’s book Chingizids, which detailed Genghis’s Kazakh heirs. Arman Ahmuhanov, a 39-year-old horse trader from Almaty, recently sent a sample to FamilytreeDNA, a company in Houston, after being encouraged to do so by Chingizids’ author Gizat Tabuldin.

The co-chairman of the highest council of the “United Russia” party, the head of Ministry of emergencies of RF, Sergei Shoigu has become a laureate of the State Prize of Republic Tuva. Yet another prize has been added to Sergei Shoigu’s many awards – he has become a laureate of the State Prize of Republic Tuva for his great contribution to the development of his small native country. The award was presented on Monday, 27 September, by the head of the republic Sholban Kara-ool during a ceremonial presentation of the anthology “Uriangkhai. Tyva Depter.” (“Tuvan notebooks”), which took place in the building of the Theatre of Music and Drama, which just re-opened after a capital renovation.