On December 23, 2009, at 3 p.m., the Department of Turkic and Mongolian Studies and the Department of Far Eastern Studies will hold the joint meeting.

The theme of the meeting is Travels to the East 2009: accounts of the scholars who went to Buryatia, Kalmykia, Mongolia and China.

Photo Presentations will be delivered by:

• Dr T.A.Pang, the head of the Department of Far Eastern Studies, the IOM RAS
• Dr I.V.Kulganek. senior researcher, the IOM RAS 
• Dr X.V.Orlova, leading researcher, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, Moscow
• Dr M.P.Petrova, associate professor, St Petersburg State University, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies
• I.V.Gerasimov, associate professor, St Petersburg State University, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, the Department of the History of Near Eastern Countries
• M.V.Fedorova, researcher, the Russian Ethnographic Museum
• D.A.Nosov, doctoral student, the IOM RAS.