CULTURAL HERITAGE IN A CURRENT CONTEXT: CASE OF OLONKHO TRANSLATION

• Main Author: НАХОДКИНА АЛИНА АЛЕКСАНДРОВНА
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования Северо-Восточный федеральный университет им. М.К. Аммосова 2015
• Subjects: OLONKHO,UNESCO,NURGUN BOTUR THE SWIFT,FOLKLORE,TRANSLATION,PLATON OYUNSKY; Sakha; Yakutsk; Sakha Republic
• Online Access: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/cultural-heritage-in-a-current-context-case-of-olonkho-translation; http://cyberleninka.ru/article_covers/16895208.png

The Yakut folklore tradition is represented by a powerful and picturesque genre the heroic epic known as the Olonkho. In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed the Olonkho ‘a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity’. This highly significant new status prompted a series of important events in the Sakha Republic, including the implementation of the State Programme on Preservation, the Study and Dissemination of the Yakut Heroic Epic Olonkho, the establishment of the NEFU Research Institute of Olonkho, the Olonkho Theatre, the Olonkho Land, the Olonkho Portal, and many others. In 2007, at the M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, UNESCO’s proclamation also prompted the start of the Yakut-English translation project of the greatest of the Olonkho stories known as Nurgun Botur the Swift, written by Platon Oyunsky.