Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Karelia in the Regional Media on the Example of the Arctic Regions

Annotation

The article considers the main vectors of changes in the sphere of cultural heritage of the population of the Arctic regions of Karelia, reflected in the media. To date, there are six northern municipalities of the republic among such districts, which differ from each other in terms of territory, population size, as well as ethno-cultural and historical peculiarities of development. The assignment to the Arctic zone is considered as a stimulus to changes or adjustments in the identity of the local population. Analyzing the cultural and historical heritage of these territories, the authors rely on the provisions of the Concept of Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia until 2022. This policy document contains the main tasks related to historical and cultural heritage. The purpose of the article is to study how the official municipal newspapers cover the solution of these tasks. For this purpose, the issues of six newspapers from the Arctic regions of Karelia for 2021-2022 were analyzed. The results of the study showed that the Arctic programs, which were launched in the republic during these years, did not find wide coverage in the regional press and did not become an incentive to increase attention to cultural and historical heritage. At the same time, a consistently high volume of materials devoted to the Great Patriotic War was noted in all the analyzed newspapers. It occupies a central place in the system of constructing the historical memory of the population of the studied territory. The ethno-cultural specifics are revealed in the materials of newspapers published in those Arctic regions of the republic, where the Karelian language and the national culture of this people continue to play an important role.

About authors

Svetlana E. Yalovitsyna, Cand. Sci. (Hist.), Associate Professor
jalov@yandex.ru, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5024-6357
Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences (ILLH KarRC RAS), ul. Pushkinskaya, 17, Petrozavodsk, Russia

Alexander F. Krivonozhenko, Cand. Sci. (Hist.)
krivfed@yandex.ru, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7152-8070
Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences (ILLH KarRC RAS), ul. Pushkinskaya, 17, Petrozavodsk, Russia

Keywords

Arctic zone, Karelia, mass media, ethno-cultural heritage, Arctic hectare

DOI

https://doi.org/10.37482/issn2221-2698.2025.59.146

UDC

[39+94]:070(470.22)(045)