Tuva.Asia / The New Research of Tuva

The summer training for young scholars majoring in Mongolian studies launched on Thursday for the tenth time. Co-organized by the National Association on Mongolian Studies and the Mongolian State University of Education, this year's training is attended by 24 scholars from the USA, Russia, Poland, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea and Turkey. They will be lectured by outstanding teachers and scholars of the Academy of Sciences, the Mongolian State University, the Mongolian State University of Education and the University of Agriculture on Mongolian on subjects of history, culture, religion, literature, archeology and nomadic economy. Furthermore, the trainees will get acquainted with the Mongolian traditional lifestyle. It gives to them a chance to cooperate with many scholars of scientific organizations of Mongolia. The training will last until July 14.

The scientists of the Ubsunur center published the photo album “The Mongun-Taiga massif. Alpine landscape” (Abakan. Journalist, 2012) specially for the 10^th International Ubsunur symposium “Ecosystems of Central Asia: research, conservation and rational exploitation” (July 3-8,  2012, Kyzyl), devoted to the 20^th anniversary of the Tyva Republic and SB RAS biospheric research International Ubsunur Center. The album contains the results of the alpine ecosystems monitoring such as the elements of the Upper Shara-Kharagai River  landscape and flora. The scientists described the landscapes of the four tops the Mongun-Taiga massif and almost all the kinds of plants they met on the research area. The kinds of the plants were given Russin and Latin names. The work was done with the help of the Ubsunur Hollow Reserve staff. The album has 374 pages, number of copies is 500.

The price for one copy is 300 rubles.