A website created with the support of oil workers with a unique audio library for studying the Ket language and culture has begun work.

The website “Akta Daskavet” (“Let’s talk well”) has started working on the Internet with materials for studying the Ket language and culture. The project was implemented with grant support from the East Siberian Oil and Gas Company, part of Rosneft.

Keto are an indigenous people living on the territory of Evenkia. The Ket language, the only living representative of the Yenisei language family and endangered, can now be studied using a new online resource. The platform is designed to make educational materials more accessible.

The site includes three main sections:

“The subjects of ethnogenesis and the origin, development and preservation of the language of the Yenisei Kets are closely interrelated and are of extreme interest to ethnographers, anthropologists, and linguists. With the help of ethnolinguistic data and methods of comparative linguistics, it is possible to establish family ties of tribes, as well as the original territory from which this or that nationality originated. In the modern world, the issue of preserving the ethnocultural identity of small nationalities as the basis for the revival of identity, continuity and national self-awareness within an ethnic group is relevant. “Language is living flesh, which was created over millions of generations,” noted A. N. Tolstoy, and here it is impossible to disagree – the loss of a language is tantamount to the loss of a nation and, at the same time, its original culture for the global heritage,” emphasize the authors of the project.

Work to replenish the resource with materials continues. Preserving the languages ​​and culture of the indigenous peoples of the North is part of the company's social policy. Previously, with the support of the All-Russian Council of People's Commissars, a textbook on the Ket language, an electronic Evenki-Russian dictionary and other educational publications were published.

The VSNK grant program has been in effect since 2014. During this time, oil workers supported 32 scientific projects, including projects to preserve the Evenki language, reconstruction of the Ethnopedagogical Center in the village of Tura, development of the first Red Book of Evenkia, revival of the endangered Evenki aboriginal Laika breed and others. The implementation of grant programs helps preserve the unique national culture, traditional way of life and identity of the indigenous population of Evenkia.