On April 1, 2015, at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, the Seventh Scholarly and Practical Conference Travels to the East 2014, will be held. It is organized by the Department of Central Asian and South Asian Studies, headed by Dr T.D. Skrynnikova, and the Department of Far Eastern Studies, headed by Dr T.A. Pang.

The following presentations will be submitted:

1. V.N. Mazurina, the State Museum of the History of Religions, St. Petersburg. Nepal in October [Непал в октябре]
2. V.Yu. Klimov, the IOM RAS. Ethnographic Exotics of Okinawa Island [Этнографическая экзотика острова Окинава]
3. V.V. Shchepkin, the IOM RAS. Following the First Russians in Hokkaidō: the Cities of Matsumae and Hakodate [По следам первых россиян на Хоккайдо: города Мацумаэ и Хакодатэ]
4. I.V. Kulganek, the IOM RAS. The New City of Astana [Новая Астана]
5. Yu.V. Boltach, the IOM RAS. Egituisky Datsan in Buryatia [Эгитуйский дацан в Бурятии]
6. I.V. Gerasimov, St Petersburg State Univeristy. Sudan's Cities Along the Blue Nile [Суданские города на Голубом Ниле]