Employees of the Department of Languages ​​of the Peoples of Siberia of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University and scientists of the Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies/Uralistics of the University of Hamburg (Germany) have been maintaining active business relations for 15 years and exchange experience in the field of studying the languages ​​and cultures of the peoples of Siberia. 

“Cooperation began with academic exchanges under the DAAD program”, — says the head. Department of languages ​​of the peoples of Siberia E. A. Kryukova. — Few times I went to Germany on a research scholarship. In addition, the director of the Institute, Beata Wagner-Nagy, is a member of the editorial board of our journal "Tomsk Journal of Linguistic and Anthropological Research". And I am on the editorial board of the foreign journal "Finnisch-ugrische Mitteilungen".

As part of joint research activities, in February 2021, specialists from the two universities met at the online seminar "Life in Siberia: Language and Culture of the Great North", which was organized by the Institute of Finno-Ugric / Ural Studies. The TSPU professor Andrey Yurievich Filchenko and Elena Aleksandrovna Kryukova took part in it with reports on the study of the languages ​​of the Ob-Yenisei area. For two days scientists from Germany, Russia, Japan, Hungary discussed the unique features of the folklore of the peoples of the North and the peculiarities of the minority languages ​​of Siberia: Selkup, Ket, Nganasan, Enets, Nenets, Yukagir.

An active exchange of experience and the opportunity to remain at the level of world standards in the field of linguistics motivate specialists from Tomsk and Hamburg to organize regular joint events. So, at the end of February, at an open seminar, the results of a long-term (18 years) INEL project aimed at studying and preserving cultural heritage will be presented. In the new academic year, September 15-16, 2021, on the basis of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University, the 29th International Conference "Dulzonian Readings" will be held, co-organized by the staff of the Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies / Uralistics of the University of Hamburg.

In Tomsk, the results of the implementation of the city project for the development of the volunteer movement among the youth "City of Good Deeds" of the 2019-2020 season were summed up: among the teams of higher education institutions, the victory was awarded to the TSPU volunteer team "Point of View".

32 teams from enterprises, universities, secondary vocational schools and educational organizations of the city have become participants in the volunteer program. The activists helped socially unprotected citizens and Tomsk residents who found themselves in a difficult life situation in solving of complex everyday issues (clearing households from snow, carrying out minor repairs, accompanying during a walk, etc.). For 11 months of the project, the teams completed 2,798 applications.

“I am very proud of my volunteers, who, despite the difficult epidemiological situation in the Tomsk region, continued to provide free assistance to those in need in the delivery of food and medical kits, accompaniment ... Thank them for the great work done!” — commented the head of the TSPU "Point of View" detachment Zarina Umerova.

In addition to participating in the campaign of the project, the TSPU volunteers were actively involved in the activities of the city center for helping the elderly and people with limited mobility during the coronavirus pandemic. The interest in their work, skill and dedication that our students demonstrated in their work allowed the TSPU team to become the best volunteer team among university volunteer organizations.

Dear Andrey Nikolaevich!

Students and staff of Tomsk State Pedagogical University wish you a happy birthday!

May your professional experience and care, readiness to work with optimism and inspiration for the benefit of Tomsk Pedagogical University bring results in achieving your goals!

Best regards, the Tomsk State Pedagogical University

The Governor's Svetlensky Lyceum became an experimental site for educational practices of the Institute for the Development of Pedagogical Education of TSPU: a cooperation agreement was signed by the head of the Lyceum A. G. Saibedinov and Director of Institute for the Development of Pedagogical Education N. A Semenova.

“The Institute's practices contribute to the effective implementation of new educational technologies and products in the educational process, — said the manager of the experimental practices Larisa Kurovskaya, — by cooperation with the Governor's Svetlensky Lyceum, we plan to research and develop the concept of Emotional Education, as well as introduce it to future teachers”.

To implement this goal, a research laboratory for emotional education was created at the TSPU, headed by Alexander Saybedinov, director of the Governor's Svetlensky Lyceum, winner of the Russian Teacher award, and the author of the concept of emotional education. Svetlensky Lyceum has a unique pedagogical experience, which is of great research interest and prospects for successful integration into the educational process of the TSPU.

“The concept of emotional education is based on the principle of changing the content of education: 20% of lyceum's curriculum are lessons of the artistic and aesthetic direction composed by Alexander Gennadievich Saybedinov (in a regular school there are no more than 5% of such subjects), — said Natalia Semyonova. — At the same time, the progress of students has improved in the subjects of the natural science cycle - chemistry, physics, mathematics. We consider the model of Emotional Education to be very promising for study, analysis, and implementation in the teacher education system. Alexander Gennadievich acquaints students of undergraduate and graduate programs of TSPU with the basic principles of his author's concept at practical classes and webinars".

A scientific symposium "Secitec 2020" (Simpósio de Pesquisa, Inovação e Tecnologia) was held at the partner university of the TSPU — the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Santa Catarina (Brazil). Students from the faculties of history, philology and physics and mathematics of the TSPU took part in this event with the organizational support of specialists from the Department of International Cooperation of the TSPU and the Center for Additional Physics, Mathematics and Natural Science Education of the TSPU.

Two reports were presented to the audience of foreign colleagues: Nikolaev Vyacheslav, a student of the faculty of history and philology, made a scientific paper on the topic "Combat tattoos and men's hairstyles of the Mdewakanton people from the Siu group, Chukchi and Evenki: a comparative aspect" (scientific adviser N. A. Tuchkova, Head of the Department of Archeology and Ethnology ); Konstantin Kataev, a student of the faculty of physics and mathematics, presented the development of the "Model for predicting career plans of a graduate" (scientific supervisor S. G. Kataev, head of the Department of General Physics).

The works were presented online. After watching them, colleagues from Brazil expressed interest in the non-trivial topics of the reports of the TSPU students.

The results of the Competition for the prize of the Tomsk Region Administration "Professor of the Year" have been announced.

Based on the decision of the working group, Konstantin Evgenievich Osetrin, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Director of the Research Center for Mathematical and Computer Physics of the TSPU, became one of the winners of the "Professor of the Year" award.

The decision is based on the papers submitted by the applicant: information on the candidate's scientific achievements, prizes and awards, etc. In total, the list of winners included 12 specialists from various educational institutions of higher education in the Tomsk region.

The All-Russian competition "Media Start" of extra-curricular methodological developments integrating media education was held by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. Ada Kazimirovna Bernatonite, associate professor of the Institute of Childhood of TSPU, Ph.D. was among the winners, representing the higher institutions.

More than 800 teachers of educational organizations of basic, general, secondary, higher and additional education took part in the competition. Speaking on behalf of the university, Ada Kazimirovna presented her textbook "Movie analysis algorithm for children" ("Movie analysis algorithm for children: genre-specific of Soviet children's films" and "Movie analysis for children: the world of fairy tales in children's cinema"). The development of the assistant professor of the TSPU was highly appreciated by the jury: the author won first place in her category.

Grigory Korotkikh, the specialist of the Department of Languages ​​of the Peoples of Siberia of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the TSPU and representative of the Association of Indigenous Minorities of the North of the Tomsk Region made a business trip to St. Petersburg, where he met with his colleagues from the Herzen University.

The purpose of the visit was to discuss issues of cooperation in the field of preservation and study of the indigenous peoples of the North and their languages. Joint work will serve as a serious step in the development of this scientific direction. There are many reasons for this:

• The TSPU is included in the list made by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) as a leading research center for the study of endangered languages. For more than 25 years, specialists of the TSPU have been studying the indigenous peoples of Siberia and their languages, collecting historical, ethnographic, archaeological and linguistic materials.
• The Kolta Kup Association of the Indigenous Minorities of the North of the Tomsk Region is the oldest association of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, founded in 1989. Its mission is to protect the interests and rights of the indigenous peoples of the Tomsk region, to assist in the revival and development of culture and education of indigenous peoples, to participate in the protection of the environment in the areas of compact residence of the indigenous peoples of the North of the Tomsk region. 
• The Institute of the Peoples of the Herzen University is the only higher educational institution in Russia that trains specialists in the field of ethnopedagogy, ethnophilology and ethnocultural studies for the northern regions. Graduates of the institute help in the preservation, study and popularization of the native languages ​​and culture of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation.

At a meeting with colleagues, Grigory Korotkikh, spoke about the activities of Tomsk organizations, shared his experience in the preparation and holding of educational and cultural events, visited the Institute's library, learned the composition of the resources.

During the discussion of further joint work, agreements were reached in three areas of activity:

• Tomsk specialists and linguistic activists representing the Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North of Tatarstan hold classes for the students of the Institute, raising issues that are unique for the St. Petersburg University;
• assistance in the preparation of school programs for the study of the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples of the North of the Tomsk region for the institutions of the Tomsk region;
• creation of the Association of Teachers of the native language, literature and culture of the indigenous peoples of the North in the Tomsk region.

The first steps within the established cooperation have already been taken: professional portfolios of Tomsk linguists submitted to the Herzen university were approved. In addition, two other proposals from Grigory received support from representatives of the Tomsk Region Administration: on the inclusion in the school curriculum of disciplines for the study of the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples of the North of the Tomsk region and the creation of the Association of Teachers of the native language, literature and culture of the small peoples of the North in the Tomsk region. The plans for the implementation of the two ideas include an active invitation to participate and other specialists of the TSPU.

New Year is always a great opportunity to look back and sum up what has been done and outline future plans.

“We are entering a digital dimension” an ordeal of distance education proved that the Tomsk Pedagogical University should become a truly digital university. Not only lectures, practices, but also conferences, signing of cooperation agreements with leading universities, commercial partners — from now on all this is done remotely. The distance did not become a limitation, but on the contrary, expanded the circle of our partners.

The Tomsk Pedagogical University declared itself as the flagship of the general education system and pedagogical science. This year the university became a member of consortia of leading foreign and domestic pedagogical universities: the Chinese-Russian Union of Higher Pedagogical Educational Institutions, the Consortium of Pedagogical Universities of Siberia. Together with Tomsk universities, the TSPU created the Postgraduate School in Education and Pedagogical Sciences.

Next year our university will have great potential to become an academic leader in training a new generation of specialists. The Tomsk Pedagogical is the official partner of the large-scale federal competition for teachers' teams "Teacher of the Future". In February, the semi-final of the competition was held at the university site, and in November the TSPU presented the Siberian Federal District at the launch of the student campaign "Teacher of the Future".

Everything achieved in 2020 and the possibilities of 2021 are the results of the joint work of the staff and students of the Tomsk Pedagogical. And, standing on the threshold of the new year, I want to wish us inspiration, fearlessness in setting ambitious goals and perseverance in achieving them, good luck and victories in creative and scientific endeavors. Of course, health and prosperity to our loved ones and families, who support us no matter what!

Happy New Year!

Rector of the TSPU Andrei Nikolaevich Makarenko continues his meetings with the teaching staff of the university to sum up the annual results of the work and present honorary awards. Meetings are organized in small groups due to safety purposes. This time awards went to the representatives of the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry and the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports.

The Diplomas of the Academic Council of the TSPU for many years and fruitful work on the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel were awarded to:

• Zharikova Natalia Viktorovna, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of General Biology and Methods of Teaching Biology, the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry;
• Belousov Andrey Valerievich, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of physical culture and sports disciplines, the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports;
• Truntyagin Alexander Nikolaevich, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports Disciplines, the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports;
• Ershova Tatyana Vladimirovna, Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geography, the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry;
• Karageorgy Natalya Mikhailovna, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Physical Culture and Sports, the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports;
• Peshkov Vladimir Fedorovich, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Physical Culture and Sports, the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports;

Sarycheva Tatyana Valerievna, professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Physical Culture and Sports of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports was awarded the honorary diploma of the Department for Youth Policy.

Concluding the meeting, Andrey Nikolayevich thanked the faculty staff for their work, answered questions and, of course, congratulated them on the upcoming holidays. The next meeting within the framework of the ceremonial sessions will be held on December 29.