February 21 is Mother Language Day

Mother Language Day was celebrated brightly and unusually by fourth-year students of the Department of Baltic-Finnish Philology.
International Mother Language Day is celebrated on February 21. On this day, the Petrovsky cultural center invited guests to listen to a series of fascinating stories about the traditions of the indigenous peoples of Karelia.

Olga Viktorovna Khusu, chief specialist of the Center for Folk Art and Cultural Initiatives of the Republic of Karelia, explained how a young married girl in the north of Karelia was supposed to dress.

Yulia Mikhailovna Filippova, representative of the Arhippa Perttunen Foundation, spoke about recipes of Northern Karelian cuisine. Sergei Andreevich Minvaleev, a researcher at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as a true scientist and teacher, made the audience puzzle over the riddles that the expedition presented to the researchers: why the settlement of Tulguba has exactly that name, how children used the swim bladder of a fish … Of course, everyone was surprised by the logic of folk riddles.

After the conversation, students with the department teacher Svetlana Valerievna Korobeinikova walked through the exhibition of the center, admired the beauty of Pomeranian, Pudozh, Kalevala folk costumes, tried the northern fishmonger, looked at products decorated with embroidery and gold embroidery, made by modern craftswomen.