The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia
	Minister: Elena V.Bogdanova Established on: May 20, 1953 Personnel: 32 employees Address: 185035, the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Lenin's Square, 2 Telephone: +7(814-2)78-35-96 Fax: +7(814-2)78-35-96 E-mail: mincult@karelia.ru

• Leaders
• General Information
• Structure
• Contact Telephone Numbers
• Regulations about the Ministry
• State, autonomous and educational institutions within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the RK
• Objects of cultural heritage of Karelia (April 2008)
• Photo-exhibition Petrozavodsk of the Fifties in Alexy Avdyshev's and Zinovy Lvovich's art. From the collection of the Museum of Fine Art of the RK
  

Archives:
• Cultural Tourism
  • Cultural Routes of Karelia
  • Projects
  • Seminars
• International projects within the Barents Euro-Arctic Region Council framework with the Ministry of Culture participation
• The IInd International Workshop Conference Wooden Architecture as a Phenomenon of National Culture
  • Wooden Architecture as a Phenomenon of National Culture (July 8, 2010)
  • The Ministry of Culture and Public Relations of the RK invites to take part in the Second International Workshop Conference Wooden Architecture as a Phenomenon of National Culture (January 28, 2010)
• The International Arrangemants traditionally conducted in the Republic of Karelia
• The calendar schedule of the most important arrangements of the Republic of Karelia dedicated to the anniversary of the first full publication of Karelian Epos "Kalevala" 1999
  • June, 26-27 1999 "Kalevalsky Carnival" will have taken place in Petrozavodsk - A festival dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the first full edition of Karelian-Finnish epos "Kalevala"
• Rundown on books by Opolovnikov A.V. and Opolovnikova E.A.

Leaders

General Information

The Ministry of Culture was created under the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Karelian-Finnish SSR of May 20, 1953 N379. In 2004 the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia was renamed into the Ministry of Culture and Public Relations of the Republic of Karelia.

Strategy of the activity of the Ministry on development of the sphere of culture is determined in the Concept of Development of Culture in the Republic of Karelia up to 2008 (authorized by the Decision of the Government of the RK of June 22, 99 N22-P) and in the republican target program Development of the Sphere of Culture in the Republic of Karelia for the period till 2010 (authorized by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Karelia of November 29, 99 N153-P).

The Concept defines the following spheres as priority directions for the immediate prospects:

• culture management on the basis of social and cultural programming, information, intellectual, creative and financial resources;
• preservation and escalating of information potential of the sphere of culture; creation of the uniform information network uniting republican and regional parts on the basis of electronic telecommunication technologies;
• integration into the information society and mastering information and telecommunication technologies;
• creation of cultural sphere programming centres; formation of independent centres of local culture development;
• maintenance of more full recognition of culture and arts as one of the basic aspects of education and development of art education;
• creation of the specialized system of personnel retraining focused on new technologies implementation;
• use of cultural heritage in social and economic development in the Republic of Karelia;
• stimulation of creative development and participation in cultural life of the population of the republic

Practical realization of priority tasks is carried out on the basis of the target federal program Culture of Russia (2001-2005)

and republican target programs:

• Development of the Sphere of Culture in the Republic of Karelia for the period till 2010
  subprograms:
  • Information of Libraries of the Republic of Karelia in 2002 - 2006
  • Development of Culture in the Countryside of the Republic of Karelia on 2002 - 2010
  • Preservation and Development of the System of Film Distribution for the Population of the Republic of Karelia in 2002 - 2010

Within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture and Public Relations there are 25 public institutions and 18 state unitary enterprises.

Structure

Approved by the Order of the Head of the Republic of Karelia N893-r, d/d November 11, 2010

• Minister
• First Deputy Minister
• Deputy Minister
• Deputy Minister
  
  
• Department for Cultural Policy
• Department for Projects and Programs
  
  
• Directorate for Legal Support and Cultural Heritage Preservation:
  
  
• Department for Legal Work, Civil Service and Personnel
• Department for Control in the Sphere of Cultural Heritage Preservation, Museum Affairs and Archive-Keeping
• Department for Safekeeping of Objects of Cultural Heritage
  
  
• Administration Department
• Finance-and-Economy Department

Total number of employees makes 32 people.

Regulations about the Ministry

Regulations about the Ministry of Culture and Public Relations of the Republic of Karelia is authorized by the order of the Head of the Republic of Karelia of August 5, 2004 N92