Vol 3, No 3 (2015)

The article considers network information technologies used for establishing ethnocultural contacts of the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia as well as the formation of a common information network. The author analyzes electronic resources of various departmental and territorial scopes.

The article considers the role of M. M. Bakhtin Research Library of Mordovia State University in the information support of the educational process. The authors focus on the University information resources and their use.

The article deals with the symbolism of the festive costume of the Mordva people in general (the subethnic division of Moksha and Erzya was not considered). The author studies the basic costume details typical of the Mordva people. The analysis of the national costume is based on the album of the famous Finnish ethnographer A. Geykel (Heykel). The author analyzes the national festive costume, considering the research works of Balashov V. A., Belitser V. N., Prokina T. N., Shigurova T. A.

This article considers the practical use of innovative forms of organizing leisure for the youth in the cultural institutions of Minsk. The author shows that the development of new forms of leisure and their adaptation to the psychophysical characteristics and socio-cultural needs of young people is one of the main challenges of modern cultural and leisure activities.

This article deals with the aesthetic evaluation of V. Meyerhold’s creative work by A. Ya. Levinson, a famous Russian art critic. The author focuses on the critic’s attitude towards avant-garde art events in Russia in the early XXth century. As a result, the study formulates the main aesthetic ideas of the critic.