The visiting hours at the Centre are from 10 to 12 and from 16 to 18 on weekdays.

The Centre provides international Finno-Ugric indigenous students with the following technical means in order to facilitate their studies:

• photocopying and computer printing
• access to internet
• the use of scanner, telephone and telefax

Contents of these pages

• General information on the Ariste Centre:
  

  including: the Council of the Centre, reports on the activities of the Centre, the Statutes of the Centre
  

• the Kindred Peoples Programme:
  

  a government aid programme to give support to the indigenous Uralic (Finno-Ugric and Samoyed) peoples living in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Latvia to develop their languages and cultures. The Programme was officially approved by the Cabinet on May 5, 1998 for the period 1999-2004
  See also the text of the Programme: in English, in Estonian, in Finnish, in Hungarian, in Russian

• List of international Uralic indigenous students in the universities of South Estonia

  The number Uralic indigenous students from the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed areas (of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Latvia) studying in the universities of Estonia is nearly one hundred. In the universities located in the South of Estonia (the University of Tartu, the Estonian Agricultural University and the Viljandi College of Culture), training is given to 26 Mari, 3 Erzya and Moksha, 22 Udmurt, 12 Komi, 1 Khant, 1 Ingrian Finnish, 3 Karelian, 2 Vepsian and 2 Livonian students.

• The library of the Centre

  The library has an often-updated collection of newspapers and magazines in the lesser-spoken Finno-Ugric languages for the use of Uralic indigenous students.

• On events past and forthcoming
• Pages in Estonian

The Estonian version has complete texts of the Kindred Peoples Programme, the statutes of the Centre and contains references to Estonian-language articles containing information on the activities of the Centre.

• The newspaper Vita Studiosi

  Vita Studiosi is edited and published under the supervision of Vasli Nikolaev with the assistance of the Ariste Centre. Contains texts by Uralic indigenous students in Estonian, Mari, Vepsian, Moksha, Permian Komi and Russian.

• Our partners