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Leonid Grigorievich Panin is a Doctor of Philology (1991), Professor, the Head of the Chair of Ancient Languages at the Department of Humanities of the NSU (1994), the Dean of the Department of Humanities (1989 鈥� 1998, since 2003). He is a specialist in the field of linguistic textology, having developed its conceptual apparatus. He also specializes in historical lexicology, the Studies of Siberian dialects, and the History of the Church-Slavonic language. He gives lectures on the Old-Slavonic and Ancient Greek languages.

鈥� Leonid Grigorievich, what is the main difference between the Department of Humanities of the NSU and its counterparts in other universities?

鈥� Unlike other departments of History and Philology, our Department provides education for historians, archeologists, linguists, students of Literature, Oriental Studies, Siberian Studies 鈥� all in all, there are many specialities. The students specializing in different liberal arts form some kind of fellowship here, and this is very important. For example, the students specializing in the Russian Language and Literature Studies can learn a lot from those who deal with Oriental Studies and Archeology. Our graduates have the skills of thinking and obtaining knowledge. As an alumnus of the Department of Humanities, in spite of my age, I continue studying and reading. I have probably read more books on history than on philology. Self-perception as a scholar is a very special need.

鈥� The Department has been training specialists specializing in History, Archeology, Oriental Studies, Linguistics and Literature Studies for a long time. What are the specialities that you plan to develop in the future?

鈥� In 2011 we opened a new speciality 鈥淔undamental and Applied Linguistics鈥�, which used to be called 鈥淢athematical Linguistics.鈥� We are going to develop this important speciality. The Division of Oriental Studies has now opened a new master programme dealing with the arts and culture of the Orient. Besides, I would like to regenerate Siberian Studies, which lay at the foundation of the Department. The first Dean of the Department of Humanities Valentin Aleksandrovich Avrorin was an outstanding specialist in Tungus-Manchurian languages. Two more distinguished scholars, Elizaveta Ivanovna Ubryatova, a prominent turkologist, and Vladimir Mikhailovich Nadelyaev, a celebrated phonetician who specialized in Siberian languages, worked at the Department.

鈥� Does one of the Department鈥檚 chairs continue working in this field?

鈥� Yes, we do have the Chair of the Languages and Folklore of Native Siberian Peoples, but unfortunately, it cannot enroll many students. We can enroll only the applicants who have passed the Unified State Exam, and those applicants who know the Tuvan and the Shor languages well enough, usually study in small village schools in their republics and their average grade is often low. We are trying to reestablish this Division as a master programme. It is very important to enroll students who speak those languages as their mother tongues. As a rule our students who specialized in Turkology have become highly-qualified specialists, almost all of them have obtained the PhD degrees. In the long run I would like to see this speciality reestablished and thriving.

鈥� The Department is very active internationally. Could you please dwell upon this in more detail?

鈥� We have been cooperating fruitfully with many countries. We have close ties with South Korea. I have been there three times and I like it that they observe their traditional culture and at the same time are open to the dialogue with Europeans. They are interested in us. We have excellent relationship with China and Japan. Italian native speakers teach at our Department.

We are now working at the transformation of the Department Journal 鈥淰estnik. 吃瓜官网鈥�, Series 鈥淗istory and Philology鈥�. It is important for us to have this journal acknowledged internationally. We have expanded the membership of its editorial board by introducing prominent foreign scholars into it. The Philology issue will include the representatives of Canada, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Italy.

鈥� What should be mentioned first when speaking about what the Department is famous for?

鈥� The two most well-known fields are certainly archeology and archaeography. The first one was headed by Academician Alexei Pavlovich Okladnikov and now this work is continued by his disciple Anatoly Panteleevich Derevyanko with his fellow scholars, well-known Academician Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin and the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalya Viktorovna Polos鈥檓ak, who is our alumna. The Archaeography school functions due to the efforts of Yelena Ivanovna Dergacheva-Skop. Since 1965 the students and teachers have been involved in expeditions aimed at finding and obtaining ancient books and manuscripts. This is the only philological department in our country that organized archaeography internships for students even in hard times of Perestroika. It is worth mentioning that we do carry out research into the Languages of Native Siberian Peoples and that no other university can provide such a high level of training in the field.

When Korean Studies are discussed, two main tertiary institutions are mentioned 鈥� Saint Petersburg State University, in which the research has been carried out for more than a century and 吃瓜官网. This is a clear evidence of the development pace. Oriental Studies is a field that has existed for quite a long time but has just recently obtained a scientific status.

鈥� What kind of applicants and students would you like to see at the Department of Humanities?

鈥� We are welcoming intelligent and inquisitive students. A person who has graduated from our Department studies throughout all his or her life. Students usually laugh when I say that a person becomes a philologist by the age of sixty. The same is true for historians and students of the Orient. Academician Alexei Pavlovich Okladnikov once said that a scholar takes from life more than he or she can give. A bright example is Academician Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev. He became famous in the country when he already turned seventy. However, the scholar had been accumulating knowledge all his life. And then he was able to freely discuss any matter 鈥� be it political, moral, spiritual or scholarly subject. This is an example of a true scholar. I hope that our Department will give at least one more Likhachev to the world.