THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS

THE VTH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

Saint Petersburg, April, 20–22, 2026

THE MEETING PLACE:

The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS

(Dvortsovaya emb., 18)

The Green Hall

10.45–11.00. The participants registration

The Chair Safarali Kh. SHOMAKHMADOV

Popova, Irina F. (Dr., Corresponding member of the RAS, Director of IOM RAS) The Welcome speech to the conference participants

Nosov, Dmitrii A. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior Researcher, Dept. of Manuscripts and Documents, IOM RAS) Alexander Vasilyevich Igumnov (1761–1834) “little Mongolian Library”

Sabrukova, Svetlana S. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior Researcher, Dept. of Manuscripts and Documents, IOM RAS) Illustrative Series of the Tibetan Convolute A-17286 from the IOM RAS Collection: Functional Attribution and Regional Context

Yakhontova, Natalia S. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior Researcher, Dept. of Manuscripts and Documents, IOM RAS) Alphabetic Mongol-Russian Dictionary from a Private Collection (its compiler, provenance, characteristics)

Bicheev, Baazr A. (Dr. Sc. (Philosophy), Leading Researcher, Kalmyk State university named after B. B. Gorodovikov) «Geser» in the epic tradition of the Kukunor Khoshuts

Skrynnikova, Tatiana D. (Dr. (History), Prof., Head of the Dept. of Central Asian and South Asian Studies, IOM RAS) Ritual Practices to White Old Man

The Chair Boris V. NORIK

Norik, Boris V. (Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS) «Ta„lim al-khutut» by „Ali b. Hasan Khushmardan and its unique copy in the Majlis Library

Osmanova, Milena N. (Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Researcher of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Federal Research Centre, RAS; ONLINE) Grammar works of medieval authors in Arabic, published in the printing houses of Dagestan in early 20th century (in memory of Dagestan Orientalist-Arabist D.H. Gadzhieva)

Michanovich, Sofiia-Aleksandra (Junior Researcher, IOM RAS) Manuscripts of the «Shahnameh» in the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: general and specific features

Saitbattalov, Iskander R. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior researcher of the Ufa University of Science and Technology; ONLINE) The manuscript «Dīwān-i ʿAliyya» from the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan is a new source on the history of Sufism in Bashkiria 

Pritula, Anton D. (Dr. (Philology), Lead Researcher, Oriental Department, State Hermitage Museum; Prof. Chief of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, National Research University – Higher School of Economics), Moiseeva, Anna V. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Researcher, Oriental Department, State Hermitage Museum) An astrological poem by Abraham Shekwana, a Chaldean scribe and poet, and its manuscript autographs

The Chair Ekaterina M. BELKINA

Belkina, Ekaterina M. (Cand. Sci. (History), Researcher, the Dept. of Manuscripts and Documents, IOM RAS) «Iranian Roots» of the Karasubazar Codex (D62) in the Hebrew Collection of the IOM RAS?

Valeev, Ramil M. (Dr. (History), Prof., Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University), Valeeva, Roza Z. (Cand. Sci. (Pedagogy), Ass. Prof., Kazan Innovative University), Samigullin, Airat N. (PhD student, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University) Letters from national scholars and educators to Russian orientalists from the archives of Russia (19th century – first decades of the 20th century)

Lushchenko, Alexey Yu. (PhD, Researcher, Dept. of Manuscripts and Documents, IOM RAS) Annotations in Japanese epistolary guides of the 18th-19th centuries

Anikeeva, Tatiana A. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Center of Islamic Manuscripts of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS) Genre composition and personality of the collector: manuscript collections of Nukus (Karakalpakstan)

Smirnova, Anastasia M. (Junior Researcher, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies, IOM RAS) Hagiographic Narrative as a Source for the History of Eighteenth-Century Kashmiri Sufism: Analysis of Manuscript B720 from the Collection of the IOM RAS

The Chair Alexey Yu. LUSHCHENKO

Tamai, Tatsushi (Representative of Lab. Serindia Assoc. Inc.; ONLINE) The Buddhist Philology of Tocharian manuscripts

Lee, Youngsil (PhD. Researcher of the Kokoro Institute for Essential Buddhist Studies, Tokyo; ONLINE) How should PratyekaBODHI and PratyekaBUDDHA be understood?

Bazarov, Andrei A. (Dr. (Philosophy), Coordinator of the Center of Oriental manuscript and xylographs, Leading Research Associate, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of SB RAS; ONLINE) Tibetan manuscript Kangyur from the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies SB RAS

Ponaryadov, Vadim V. (Cand. Sc. (Philology), Senior Researcher, Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Science Centre, RAS, Syktyvkar; ONLINE) Old Uighur and Old Permian inscriptions on a spindle whorl from Plesnesk

Khartayev, Vladimir Vl. (Cand. Sc. (History), Junior Researcher of the Center for Oriental Languages Translation Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the SB RAS; ONLINE) About «The History of Buddhism in Mongolia» by Lobsan-Tsepel (1761–1835)

The Chair Dmitrii A. NOSOV

Guo Laimei (Dr. Of Russian Language and Literature, Research Asistant, Nankai University, PRC; ONLINE) Recent Advances in the Cataloguing and Study of Russian Khotanese Manuscripts: A Review of A.V. Mesheznikov‟s Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscripts from Serindia

Chebodaeva, Maina P. (Cand. Sc. (Art History), Researcher, Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature, and History) Folk Festivals of the Khakass according to the materials of the 1913 expedition of S. D. Mainagashev to the Minusinsk District

Stasevich, Vladislav A. (Cand. Sc (History), Senior researcher, Rare book Dept., Russian Academy of Sciences’ Library) The «Collectanea Orientalia» convolute from the library of Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer

Shomakhmadov, Safarali Kh. (Cand. Sc. (History), Senior researcher of the Serindia Laboratory, IOM, RAS) «Spell Texts» in the Manuscripts from the Serindia Northern oases: approaches to research

Dudin, Pavel N. (Sc.D. (History), Dr. Habil (Political Science), Sc.D. (Law), Docent, Chief Researcher, Center for Political Research and Forecasting, Institute of China and Modern Asia, RAS), Kobelev, Sergey V. (Strategic Consultant on GenAI) Digital Humanities and the Methodology of Using GenAI Tools in Working with Handwritten Heritage on Chinese Law (Case Studies from RGADA Funds)