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The “On melting ground. Arctic Archaeology” conference took place in Chemnitz, Germany, from 20 to 22 October 2021. The smac (Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz) arranged the international conference in cooperation with the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) to help prepare for the special exhibition “On Thin Ice” (working title), which is planned to open in autumn 2023 in Chemnitz. The conference was hybrid, allowing people to participate in person or from home. The language was English or Russian, made possible with excellent simultaneous translation. A few of the presentations will be summarised in this conference review. To gain a complete overview of the conference, please follow the link to smac's web page, where you can find the abstracts of all the presentations: https://www.smac.sachsen.de/fortbildungen-Info_Arktische_Archaeologie_Tagung.html (last access: 20 December 2022).

The article is devoted to the interpretation of the image and activities of Prince St. Vladimir by the famous Russian legal scholar and philosopher Yevgeny Vasilyevich Spektorsky (1875-1951). Spektorsky referred to the image of the prince several times in articles in Russian and Serbian during his emigration to Yugoslavia. Special attention is paid to the participation of the scientist in the Vladimir collection of 1930, released after the Russian emigration began celebrating the Day of Russian Glory. On the basis of archival documents from the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, the details of the preparation of an article for the second Vladimir collection of 1939 are shown. The researcher considered St. Vladimir one of the main historical figures in the history of Russia, and the adoption of Christianity - the most important event in Russian history and singled out, in this regard, a special period in the history of Russia - "Holy Russia". Comparing Prince Vladimir with Peter the Great and Alexander II, he gave primacy to Vladimir. Spektorsky also considered the images of St. Vladimir and St. Cyril and Methodius, as well as St. Savva, to be equal in size. For the first time, the materials of correspondence between E.V. Spektorsky and A.V. Solovyov are introduced into scientific circulation and also actualizes attention to inaccessible articles of the scientist of the 1930s.

The paper discusses the issues of teaching nationality languages of Russia to preschool children, taking the Udmurt language and culture as an example. The relevance of the study is dermined by the scientific data according to which ethnic stereotypes in behaviour are formed most intensively in preschool age. Getting acquainted with new cultures and languages is particularly important for preschool education in multinational regions as it prevents the development of ethnocentric personalities. The paper aimed at a detailed analysis of the didactic and substantive content of the educational programme “Zarni bugor” (“Golden ball”) (hereinafter referred as the Programme) with the elements of teaching the Udmurt language to children from 4 to 7; the Programme is to be realised within three years in the Russian group of kindergarten № 5 in the town of Agryz, Republic of Tatarstan. The novelty of the Programme lies in introducing the Udmurt language (along with Tatar and Russian) into the educational process of the kindergarten. The research methods are theoretical (the study of academic literature on the problems of intercultural education in a multi-ethnic region) and empirical (observation and behavioral analysis of preschoolers). The system of exercises included into the Programme, its content, the forms and methods of teaching preschoolers present a consistant didactic material for teaching the Udmurt language and culture in this age group. The programme is expected to provide a high level of intercultural competence corresponding to the age of children, it is supposed to arouse their interest in the Udmurt language and culture, make them open for perception of other cultures.

Abstact. In the article there is considered the problem of possible rapprochement of Marx’s philosophy and existentialism. This question has the history in J.P. Sartre's attempts to enrich marxism with existentialism and peculiar to it method of “comprehension”. These attempts were criticized as from orthodox marxists (R. Garaudy), and from outside the “right” thinkers (R. Aron) convinced that the contradiction between marxism and existentialism in frames of history of mankind is unsolvable. Besides, in the article there is also analyzed the attempt to connect marxism and existentialism, undertaken by E. Fromm. According to E. Fromm, K. Marx’s philosophy is original “spiritual existentialism” that still was not understoodly orthodox Marxists. Adherents of association of marxism and existentialism are convinced that the marxism philosophy deprived of the existential motives and reduced to the logical and methodological and structurally functional components appears unattractive and even lifeless construct. The revolutionary theory of marxism has to be expressed in the bright formulas sated with passion, it has to be guided not only by rational arguments, but also by “logic of heart”. Such theory has to be existential philosophy. There is a problem, equally important both for K. Marx's philosophy and for existentialism, - the problem of alienation. But the solution of this problem in these philosophical directions is not only deeply various, but also opposite. If for existentialism alienation represents an ontologic phenomenon, i.e. alienation accompanies existence of Man in all its stages, then for K. Marx this phenomenon has the social and historical nature and therefore exactly in the history of Man it arises and in the same history it is overcome.

Malachi. S. D. (Fanie) Snyman. S. I. (Fanie) Cronjé Bleibendes Nachwirken des Exils: Untersuchung zur kanonischen Endgestalt des Ezechielbuches. Tobias Häner. Benjamin Kilchör Origenes: Die Homilien und Fragmente zum Hohelied: Eingeleitet und übersetzt von Alfons Fürst und Holger Strutwolf. Prof. Dr. Christoph Stenschke The Deuteronomist’s History: The Role of the Deuteronomist in Historical-Critical Research into Genesis–Numbers. Hans Ausloos. Pieter van der Zwan The Formation of the ‘Book’ of Psalms: Reconsidering the Transmission and Canonization of Psalmody in Light of Material Culture and the Poetics of Anthologies. David Willgren Beat Weber

In S.I. Grishunin's article «Modern science and modern anti-intuitivism» is given criticism of modern anti-intuitivism. In this article the intuition is necessary at construction of new fundamental scientific theories, at studying a microcosm, at scientific modeling, by search of optimum model, at the decision of special scientific problems is shown.

The article is devoted to the analysis of a role of creative intuition in scientific search forecasting. In this article the correlation of objective models, intuitive assumptions and formal procedures in scientific search forecasting also is shown.

Isaiah 36-39 - Sinchronic and diachronic reading of a text. There has been growing interest in the book of Isaiah, particularly with regard to the unity of the book. The current debate has grown out of the discontent of more and more researchers with the historical-critical methods and their results. The classical tripartition of Duhm, and especially his supporters� application of it, is being queried. The unity of all 66 chapters of Isaiah is indicated as an alternative. The synchronic and diachronic approaches to the text are often played off against each other. An attempt is made to raise questions about both perspectives, showing that each approach has its shortcomings. However, by looking at the text from a diachronic as well as a synchronic perspective, an improved view of the rich variety of the text can be seen. In this article, Isaiah 36-39 serves as an illustration.