On April 19-20, 2013, the International Conference Cultural Heritage of the Mongols: Collections of Manuscripts and Archives at St Petersburg and Ulaanbaatar was held at the IOM RAS. The conference was supported by the President of Mongolia, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. The IOM RAS and the Institute of History of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences were the main organizers of the conference, the Government of Mongolia and the International Association for Mongolian Studies were its co-organizers. PHOTOS The participants of the Conference at the Green Hall of the IOM RAS The IOM Director, Dr. I.F. Popova and the Director of the Institute of History, MAS, ProfDr. S. Chuluun Dr. E. Tulisov and Dr. A. Barea-Starczynska, the Polish Academy of Sciences Dr. A. Sárközy, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Dr. I.F. Popova and Dr. A.A. Kovalev, a member of the St Petersburg Parliament N. Amgalan, the head of the Cultural and Research Center at the Buddhist Academy of the Gandantegchenlin Monastery, observes the IOM Museum of Oriental Studies Dr. I.F. Popova and Dr. I.V. Kulganek with the Japanese participants - Dr. T. Nakami, Tokyo, and Dr. Yu. Konagaya, Kyoto Dr. O. Kapolnas, Budapest University Dr. I.V. Zakharova and Dr. K.V. Orlova Dr. T.Yu. Yusupova Dr. A.D. Tsendina T.Yu. Evdokimova, Dr. V.L. Uspensky and Dr. S. Chuluun Photos by S. Shevelchinskaya, A. Tsendina and K. Orlova |