State budget organization of the Komi republic “Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin”.

On September 20, the methodists of the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin conducted a lecture on the topic “Life and creative work of Kallistrat Zhakov” in the Komi National Gymnasium. The listeners were pupils of two 10^th grades.

The Deputy Director of the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin Alexey Kimovich Konyukhov took part in the Fifth Nalimov Readings that took place on September 13 in the Museum of History and Culture of Syktyvdinsky District. A.K. Konyukhov made a report on the topic: “Projects for the popularization of the heritage of outstanding people from Komi region”.

On September 13, the Director of the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin Olga Yuryevna Kuzivanova spoke at the Syktyvkar State University with a lecture on the life and creative work of the outstanding sociologist of the XX century Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin.

State Budget Organization of the Republic of Komi “Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin” announces the holding of the absentee Republican contest of research works on the topic: “Komi region in the fate and works of Pitirim Sorokin” (to the 130^th anniversary of his birth).

On the 25^th of August, the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin took part in the festival “Dark Alleys”, organized by the National gallery of the Republic of Komi. This year the event was devoted to science fiction and space exploration.

The Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin is pleased to announce the publication of the regular volume of the Collected works of P. Sorokin – “The Crisis of Our Age. Russia and the United States”.

It is not a secret for the experts of the life and creative work of the scientist that the most of the childhood of the future professor of Harvard University and the president of the American Sociological Association was held in small settlements of the Komi region, now is part of the Ust-Vum District of the Komi Republic – the villages Gam and Rymia. In the first, young Pitirim Sorokin studied at the advanced grade school, in the second he often spent vacations and free time with his aunt Anissya Rymskikh.

The staff of the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin, commissioned by the Ministry of National Policy of the Republic of Komi, carried out a sociological survey within the framework of monitoring the situation in the sphere of interethnic and interconfessional relations in the region.

In June, Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies and Pedagogical Anthropology of the Syktyvkar State University after Pitirim Sorokin, the Science Director of the International Center for Social Research Nikolai Fedoseevich Zyuzev visited the USA where he met with famous scientists and researchers interested in the life and creative work of the famous Russian-American sociologist Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin.

N.F. Zyuzev with the Head of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University Jason Beckfield

On the 20^th of May, the Center “Nasledie” after Pitirim Sorokin took part in the opening of the regional book fair “Alaya lenta” organized by the National library of the Komi Republic with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Archives of the Komi Republic and the Ministry of National Policy of the Komi Republic.