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

Acting Director of the N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

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)

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

Leading Researcher of the Scientific Research Center for National and Language Relations, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Leading Researcher of the Folklore Division, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS

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

Head of the Department of Russian Language, General Linguistics and Speech Communication, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg)

Director of the Regional Center of the Russian Language, Folklore and Ethnography of the Irkutsk region (Irkutsk)

Head Researcher, Linguistics Section, Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodsk)

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 Federal Institute for the Development of Education (Moscow)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

Director of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg)

Associate Professor of the Department of General and Slavic Art Studies, Institute of Slavic Culture, A.N. Kosygin Russian State University (Technology. Design. Art) (Moscow)

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

Head Researcher, Folklore Department, Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Scientific Center of the Uralic Division, Russian Academy of Sciences (Kirov)