Many-sided Study on Representation of the "South" in Russian Culture since Modern Ages

该项目的目的是调查和分析自18世纪至今俄罗斯和苏联文化中南方（伏尔加河下游、乌克兰、克里米亚和高加索地区）的各种表现形式。通过2012年9月在亚美尼亚的联合实地考察和其他科学会议，我们试图综合项目成员的个人研究，并通过举办“想象景观”国际圆桌会议（2012年9月，在亚美尼亚共和国埃里温的俄罗斯-亚美尼亚（斯拉夫）大学）和出版两本文集（俄语和日语），获得了很好的结果，明确了我们的对象的不同面貌及其爆发和变化的原因。

The aim of this project was investigation and analyses of various representations of the South (lower reaches of river Volga, Ukraine, Crimea and Caucasus) in Russian and Soviet culture since the 18th century up to nowadays. We tried to sinthesize individual studies of project members by joint fieldwork in Armenia on September, 2012 and other scientific meetings, and obtained good results to make clear diverse faces of our objects and reasons of their outbreak and change by holding the international round table "Imagining the Landscape" (September 2012, at Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University in Erevan, Armenia Republic) and publication of two collections of articles (in Russian and Japanese).