ASICA today

The Institute today

Today the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts is the only basic regional Institution in Russia, which trains specialists in the field of culture and arts for the largest region of the country – the North-East of the Arctic zone. ASICA is one of the well-known leaders in training of creative specialists of indigenous peoples of the Arctic. The key of the Institute’s attractiveness among youth of the Northern region, Siberia and the Far East is the unique feature of educational programs based on connection of academic arts with cultural traditions of the peoples of the Arctic.

Nowadays the Institute offers 38 programs of study.

Over 1000 students of intramural and extramural forms of study.

Teaching staff

The pride of the institute is the teaching staff, which currently numbers 93 people. Outstanding figures of art and culture stood at the origins of the Arctic Institute and are working today: People's Artist of Russia, laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation Andrey Borisov, People's Artist of Russia Albina Borisova-Kychkina, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Aitalina Adamova-Afanasyeva, laureate of international competitions Nikolai Pikutsky, People's Artist of Yakutia and Honored Artist of Russia Stepanida Borisova, Honored Artist of Russian Artist Zinaida Ivanova-Unarova, Doctors of Art History Angelina Lukina, Oksana Dobzhanskaya, Doctor of Sociology, Honored Scientist of the RS (Ya) Ulyana Vinokurova, Doctors of Cultural Studies Yuri Kitov, Olga Shlykova, Tatiana Lyapkina, Honored Artists of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Irina Borisova, Honored Artists of the RS (Ya) Maria Rakhleeva, Tuyaara Shaposhnikova, Marianna Lukina, and others.

Honorary titles of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are awarded to 30 teachers, 7 people have the degree of Doctor of Sciences and the academic title of professor, 32 teachers are candidates of sciences and associate professors.

Education

We have 9 departments:

Department of folk-art culture
Department of art
Department of music art
Department of theatre arts
Department of cultural studies and sociocultural activity
Department of painting and graphics
Department of library studies and humanities
Department of design and applied arts of the peoples of the Arctic
Department of information technologies

The training takes place in equipped classrooms for lectures, seminars and individual classes, there are choreographic halls, workshops for painting, graphics, design, artistic bone processing, specialized classes in vocal, instrumental performance, theory and history of music, rehearsal rooms for an educational theater and orchestra of folk instruments, a library, and a music library.

Research activity

Research activities of the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts are aimed on providing modern level of training, creating theoretical and methodological foundation of educational process development, retraining of specialists of culture and arts in the Arctic

Scientific laboratories of international level (Laboratory of complex geocultural research of Arctic, Center for scientific research of circumpolar civilization) develop new methodological approaches in the field of Arctic research with the Higher School of Economics, the Saint-Petersburg university and international partner institutions in attendance.

The most important result of the activities of the Circumpolar Civilization Research Center was the discovery of the phenomenon of the existence of an Arctic circumpolar civilization, confirmed by a certificate of authorship and internationally recognized[1]. The Laboratory of Integrated Geocultural Research of the Arctic[2], the result of the university's collaboration with the Institute for Humanitarian Studies and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, won a large grant from the Russian Science Foundation No. 14-38-00031 and led interdisciplinary research related to the geocultural branding of the northern territories.

ASIC has established a scientific school in the field of ethnomusicology, which has collected a unique folklore archive and a collection of traditional musical instruments of the peoples of North Asia, which became the basis for the creation of a museum of musical instruments at the Institute. The scientific director of the school is a well-known Russian scientist, Doctor of Art History, Professor Yuri Ilyich Sheikin. At the invitation of Oxford University, Professor Yu.I. Sheikin joined the international team of authors responsible for the preparation of the English-language musical encyclopedia The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has written articles on the musical culture of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East for this encyclopedia. The scientist is one of the top 100 most cited Russian authors in the field of Art Criticism. For his invaluable contribution to the study of the endangered cultures of the peoples of the North, Yu.I. Sheikin was the first Russian scientist to be awarded the prestigious International Prize in Comparative Ethnomusicology. Fumio Koizumi, which is awarded in Tokyo.

The result of the Institute's extensive research work on the study of the Siberian collection of the Dzhezupov expedition, stored in the American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA), was the publication of the first volume of the system catalog album "The material and spiritual culture of the peoples of Yakutia in the museums of the world (XVII-early XX centuries)"[3].

For outstanding scientific results in the field of education and science, the teachers of the Institute, U.A. Vinokurova and Yu.I. Sheikin, were awarded the National Professor of the Year Award, established by the Russian Professorial Assembly.

The institute's teachers, famous painters Artur Vasiliev and Dulustaan Boitunov are corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Arts, and graphic artists Maria Rakhleeva and Mikhail Starostin have become honorary members of the Russian Academy of Arts, which is evidence of the academic recognition of the art school of AGIKA and Yakutia.

The innovative socio-educational project "Education + Culture", based on the consolidation of the resources of three universities – AGIKI, Churapcha Institute of Physical Culture and Sports and the Arctic Agrarian and Technological University – sets as its big goal the launch of the process of social modernization of the village and the introduction of modern technologies to improve the quality of life.

International collaboration

International collaboration at the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts is one of the priority areas. Nowadays there are partner institutions in Mongolia, Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Cameroon, China. Key focus of international relations – scientific and educational (participation in exchange programs of students and staff members, participation in international scholarship programs, international networks, focused on research in culture and arts etc.) and creative (organizing and participating in international exhibitions, international creative contests and festivals).

Creation

An important area of the ASICA activities is artistic engagement. Significant part of the students and staff members are members of dozens of creative groups, studios, laboratories, take an active part in regional, national and international concerts, festivals and contests.

The Institute is the main organizer of several significant creative forums and events, as the All-Russian contest of folk musicians “Arctic Stars”, the All-Russian contest of vocalists “Voice of Arctic”, the International Arctic Triennale “Arctic Chronotopos”, the Republican School Olympiad “Culture and Arts of Arctic”, the All-Russian contest of epos performers “Epos of the Peoples of Russia”, the International project “Nomad Scroll” etc.

Students' artistic creativity is deservedly evaluated at all levels and competitions. Student groups annually take part in all significant cultural events at the city, national, national and international levels.

The Institute organizes a number of significant creative forums and events, in particular: the All-Russian competition of performers on folk instruments "Radiance of the Arctic", vocalists "Voice of the Arctic", the International Arctic Triennial "Arctic Chronotope", the Republican Olympiad of schoolchildren "Culture and Art of the Arctic", the All-Russian competition of performers of the epic "Epics of the peoples of Russia", the International project "Wandering scrolls" and others.

The priority is 2030. The Far East

Since October 2022, the university has been a participant in the federal program "Priority 2030. The Far East." As part of this program, AGIKI intends to significantly improve a number of its performance indicators by 2030, including:

the number of students is 1352;
the average score of the Unified State Exam is 65;
income from R&D and creative activities - 14.2 million rubles;
students enrolled in additional education programs - 1063;
to create 30 breakthrough innovative products for the region and five for the world;
to employ almost 900 graduates in the regions of the Far East;
to open 30 ASICS network schools based on schools, IT centers and competence centers;
50% of the teaching staff are representatives of the creative business, leading scientists, and teachers who are masters of art.

During the project implementation period, the priority is 2030. The Institute plans to open more than 30 new bachelor's, master's, specialty, and higher education training programs in the Far East. More than a third of the programs will require licensing and accreditation procedures.

The plan provides for the focus on both the opening of new areas of training (specialties) and the modernization of those already being implemented. Taking into account the region's priority setting for the development of the creative economy, new higher education educational programs and additional professional programs will be aimed at developing creative and digital competencies. A number of programs are planned to be implemented in network cooperation with Universal University (design, urbanism and territorial development, cinema, game industry, etc.), Far Eastern Federal University (tourism), Northeastern Federal University (teacher education), Murmansk Arctic State University (design), film company;Sahafilm", by the National Concern "Sahabult", by the National Broadcasting Company "Sakha" and others

The plan includes a tactical move to open new PLOS, which, together with some already implemented but being upgraded, are aimed at creating certain blocks of programs. These blocks will be aimed at meeting the needs of the region in certain areas of the creative economy and culture. For example, the "Cinema and Television" block includes programs "producing; cinematography; film and television artist; sound engineering; creative economics and legal support; music in the field of cinema, computer games, music and theater projects; acting; studio management of film, photo and video creation).

The new programs in the field of tourism will continue the line of educational programs for management in Arctic tourism, folk art culture, museology, and the protection of cultural and natural heritage sites.

The development of digital competencies in the field of creative economy and culture will continue with ongoing programs (applied informatics. digital technologies in library and information activities, in museum business, digital design, etc.) in a block with new programs (business informatics, virtual and augmented reality technology, intelligent robotics, computer music and arrangement, computer graphics and animation).

A number of projects have already been implemented and have been positively received by the society. Thus, the interregional play "Song of the Flying Arrow" was staged based on Yakut, Tuvan and Altai epics; the Far Eastern Youth Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments was created, uniting the collectives of Yakutia and Primorye; a film program was opened, whose graduates will become the basis for the work of the future year-round film pavilion; together with Universal University and the industrial partner, Sabiem company the program of the Summer School of Jewelry Design was implemented and the jewelry Creaton was held for the first time in the world; the program "Master planning and management of territorial development in the circumpolar climate" was opened for the purpose of high-quality implementation of the program of renovation of Far Eastern cities; cooperation agreements were signed with creative and business universities in Kazakhstan, Cameroon and China; a joint project with GITIS was implemented - the play "Pity"; university students selected on a competitive basis received grants and completed internships in cultural institutions and other organizations of the Far East; advanced training and additional education courses were implemented; a neural network was developed for the study of the Yakut language in cooperation with the National Library of Yakutia and other projects.

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