Students of the Beloyarsk Boarding School Learned How to Study Native Languages of the Peoples of the North

In September 2022, students of the boarding school in the village of Beloyarsk, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, learned how to study their native language with the help of apocrypha (fictional stories). Olga Pando, Khanty language teacher, and Olga Anisimova, history teacher , showed the children materials collected during the project.

The teachers encouraged students to participate in regional essay competitions in the languages of the peoples of the North and were told them more about the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

In teamwork, schoolchildren tested their skills and knowledges in an intellectual game devoted to their outstanding compatriot, Nenets poet and writer Leonid Laptsui.

At the master class of Zoya Rudyuk, the children learned how to make an ‘Akan’, a traditional doll of the indigenous northerners.

The event took place on the initiative of the teachers from the Aksarka school as a part of an educational and ethnographic project ‘Priuralsky argish’ (argish is a convoy consisting of several reindeer teams following one after another) with the support of the teachers from the Beloyarsk boarding school and the Priural branch of the Association ‘Yamal to descendants!’.

Today, 616 students study at the Beloyarsk school. About 280 pupils live in a family-type boarding school.