Karelian language and culture on the Internet
Basic information on the Karelians and Karelian language • Language samples, publications, essays • Culture, arts, music • History • Nature • Educational and cultural institutions • Libraries • Citizens' organizations • Personal home pages • Humour and entertainment
Basic information on the Karelians and Karelian language
- The Karelians - An article from the Red book of the peoples of the Russian empire.
Language samples, publications, essays
- Jumolanuoli - The Novgorodian birch bark letter 292 is one of the oldest Balto-Finnic texts
- Karjala 3W-instituutti - Information on the status of the Karelian language in Finland, history of the Karelian literature (in Finnish), stories and poems in Karelian
- Luvemma vienankarjalaksi - Samples from a North (White Sea) Karelian textbook on Kazuto Matsumura's home page
- The dictionary of the Karelian language compiled at the Research institute for the languages of Finland is based on materials collected by Finnish linguists at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century (information in Finnish)
- Olonets Karelian under the pressure of Russian - English abstract of the doctoral dissertation by Raija Pyöli.
- An essay on Karelian language written by Kati Kyllönen, student of the Suomussalmi high school (in Finnish)
- Karelian place names and a short introduction in Basque at Luistxo Fernandez's and Marije Manterola's GeoNative site
- "Oma randa" pod Tver'ju - Nikita Krivcov's article on the Tver Karelians, published in the journal "Vokrug sveta" 8/1996 (in Russian)
- The Karelians - A. Mišin's article on Karelian literature in the publication of Finno-Ugric writers INF-2
- The functional distribution of the languages in Karelia - Chamil Khairov's article in Geolinguistic Newsletter 1/1997
- Naisten kuningaskunta - Pekka Matilainen's account of a trip to Karelian villages in the Tver region in the journal "Yliopisto" 14/1998 (in Finnish)
- The Whale-Watching-Web has pictures and information on the Karelian petroglyphs. See Close Encounters in Past, The Final Petroglyph, Welcome to the Finno-Ugrian Petroglyphs from Stoneage, Finno Petroglyphs and Beluga Whales, Some Data About Lake Onega Rock Art by Väinö Poikalainen as well as the Karelian petroglyps -page on the server Onego.
- Kalevala and Kanteletar - Information provided by Virtual Finland. You may also listen to an excerpt from the song The Birth of Fire by Petri Shemeikka (the recording was made in 1905 on a wax cylinder!). See also the demonstration of the Kalevala CD-rom (in Finnish).
- Kizhi - Pictures and information on the Kizhi museum of wooden architecture. See also E.N. Papin's account of a trip to Kizhi and the new official site for Kizhi (in Russian)
- A Virtual Tour of the Monastery on Solovki - Sibelan Forrester's essay and photographs from a visit to the Solovki Islands in July 1995
- Kuivajärvi and Hietajärvi are two North (White Sea) Karelian villages in Suomussalmi (Finland), right next to the Russian border (information in Finnish).
- Karelian pies (kalitki) - An article from the Russian magazine "Ogonyok" 44/1996
- Karelian cuisine - Recipes of traditional dishes (in Russian)
- The Karelian song- and dance ensemble Kantele - With video clips!
- Toive - The folklore ansamble of the Petrozavodsk university (information in Russian)
- Myllärit - A modern folk ansamble from Petrozavodsk. Includes audio files!
- Song and dance ansamble Karjala from Petrozavodsk (information in Russian, video clips)
- Karelian national theater (information in Russian)
- Karjalan gornitsa - A folklore ansamble from the city of Kostomuksha (information and photos in Finnish and Russian)
- The Karelian question and its historical background - An article by professor Pentti Virrankoski (in Russian).
- History of Karelia - An essay by Mauri Rastas.
- Vodlozero national park - Basic information on the Vodlozero park situated in the Pudozh district of the Republic of Karelia and the Arkhangelsk region. Detailed information is also available on the server "Onego" (in English and Russian). The Russian part tells about the unique cultural heritage of Vodlozero, its history, the local North Russian dialect and toponymes.
- Paanajärvi national park and the Kostomuksha nature reserve - Information, photos and maps on Matti Pellinen's home page.
- Mikhail Fedorov's photos from the Paanajärvi national park, Kostomuksha and Kivach nature reserves
Educational and cultural institutions
- State committee of the Republic of Karelia on national policy and local self-government (information in Russian)
- Karelian and Vepsian language board (in Russian)
- Karelian ministry of education and youth (in Russian) - See the Concept of the development of the Finno-Ugrian school in Karelia (zip-file). The concept aims at preserving the languages and culture of the Karelians, Vepsians and Finns in Karelia, creating preconditions for the development of the Finno-Ugrian school.
- Department of Balto-Finnic philology and culture at the Petrozavodsk University - The department consists of two chairs: the chair of the Finnish language and literature, and the chair of the Karelian and Veps languages and literature.
- Petrozavodsk conservatory (in Russian) - A Finno-Ugrian musical academy was created in 1993 as a part of the conservatory. It gives training in ethnomusicology, composing, traditional instruments and traditional singing.
- Kotkozero sociocultural complex - Information on the work for preserving the Karelian language and culture in the village of Kotkozero, Olonets district of Karelia (in Russian - English and Finnish pages forthcoming)
- Ministry of culture of the Republic of Karelia - See also the pages of the Republican museum, Center of national cultures and Center of traditional arts (in Russian)
- Kuhmon kultuurikornitsa - An institution for cultural exhange between Finland and the Republic of Karelia, situated in Kuhmo, Finland (information in Finnish)
- National library of the Republic of Karelia (in Russian) - The department of national and local literature has created catalogues of books published in the Karelian and Vepsian languages Karelica and Vepsica. See also the electronic catalogue and the search results for the keywords "karel'skij jazyk" and "jazykoznanie".
- Library of the Petrozavodsk university - See the electronic catalogue and the search results for the keyword "karel'skij jazyk"
- Tver regional scientific library - The library plans to create an electronic version of a bibliography on the Tver Karelians
- Karjalan kielen seura - The society for the Karelian language (information in Finnish).
- Karjalan sivistysseura - The society of the North (White Sea) Karelian emigres in Finland regards the preservation of the traditional culture and the national languages of the Republic of Karelia as its main tasks (information in Finnish).
- Tverinkarjalaisten ystävät - The Finnish - Tver Karelian friendship society aims at supporting the preservation of the language and culture of the Tver Karelians (information in Finnish).
- Karjalan liitto - The Finnish Karelian league, an organization of the evacuees from the Finnish territories lost in the Second world war, is now making contacts with the Karelians in the Republic of Karelia and the Tver region (information in Finnish).
- National cultural organizations and movements in the Republic of Karelia (brief information in Russian)
- Matti Saveljev's home page in Finnish, Esperanto and Karelian
= "Cool!" (?!)
- Pray for the 178,000 animist Karelian of Finland and the U.S.S.R. - Humour?
- Petrozavodsk spirit company "Petrovsky" - Entertainment in half a litre bottles
- The first webcam in Petrozavodsk - Watch trolley buses on Lenin street!
- sex.karelia.ru - This is what we have been waiting for...
See the links to the Karelian mass media (in Finnish and Russian) and the
WWW-servers in the Republic of Karelia and the Tver region as well!
Send your additions to
Esa Anttikoski, Esa.Anttikoski@joensuu.fi
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