Professor of the Department of Theory, History and Teaching Methods of the Russian Language and Literature, Voronezh State Pedagogical University (Voronezh)

Head Researcher of the Center of Asian and Pacific Studies, N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vice-Director, Teaching Scientific Center of Social Anthropology, Russian State University f

Scientific Vice-Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Scientific Vice-Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Vice-Director of the Department of Humanities Research, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Professor of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Moscow)

Head of the Sector of Immaterial Culture Heritage, Polenov State Russian House of Folk Arts (Moscow)

Expert on national culture at the City Folk Arts Center (Dudinka)

Professor of the Department of Culture and Religious Studies, Leading Researcher of the Center of Studies on Traditional Culture of the European North, M. V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Arkhangel’sk)

Head of the Sector of Folklore and Folk Art, State Institute of Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (Moscow)

Leading Researcher of the Scientific Research Laboratory “Philological Research on Spiritual Culture of the North,” Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University (Syktyvkar)

Head of the Department of Russian Literature and Scientific Vice-Director, Institute of Philology and Journalism of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhniy Novgorod (Nizhniy Novgorod)

Vice Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly almanac “Traditional Culture,” Polenov State Russian House of Folk Arts (Moscow)

Associate Professor of the Department of Oral Folk Arts, Faculty of Philology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow)

Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language, Literature and Journalism, I. N. Ulyanov Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University (Ul'yanovsk)

Leading Researcher of the Federal Institute for the Development of Education (Moscow)

Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature and Teaching Methodology, Vyatka State University (Kirov)

Director of the Polenov State Russian House of Folk Arts; Chairman, Russian Committee for the Preservation of the Non-Material Cultural Heritage, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO (Moscow)

Senior Researcher of the Department of Folklore, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russian Music, Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Moscow)

Leading Researcher of the Department of Philological Research, Udmurt Federal Research Center, Uralic Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Izhevsk)

Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Philology of the Department of Humanities Research, Federal Research Center the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rostov-on-Don)

Head of the Department of Russian Folklore, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg)

Senior Researcher of the Department of Typology and Comparative Linguistics, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Professor of the Department of Russian Language, Literature and Journalism, Mari State University (Yoshkar-Ola)

Leading Researcher of the D. S. Likhachev Russian Scientific Research Institute of Natural and Cultural Heritage (Siberian Branch) of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (Omsk)