Faculty of Baltic and Finnish Philology and Culture

Chair of Finnish language and literature

Head of the Chair,      Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Philology, Starshova Tamara Ivanovna Pravda str., 1, room#304 Tel.: (814-2) 57-24-08 E-mail: finsdep@psu.karelia.ru                starshova@psu.karelia.ru

Personnel of the chair:

1. Starshova Tamara Ivanovna - Dean, Head of the Chair, Associate Professor, Ph.D., starshova@psu.karelia.ru
2. Bogdanov Evgenij Viktorovich - senior instructor, jakobson@karelia.ru
3. Iganus Irja Tojvovna - instructor, irja@sampo.ru
4. Kazakova Maria Vladimirovna - instructor
5. Kolomainen Lubov Petrovna - senior instructor
6. Korobeinikova Svetlana Valerievna - senior instructor
7. Lenina Anna Andreyevna - instructor
8. Loginova Elizaveta Valerievna - post-graduate student
9. Loginova Natalia Maximovna – senior instructor
10. Mullonen Irma Ivanovna - Full Professor, Doctor of Philology
11. Nazarova Anna Nikolayevna - senior instructor
12. Nazarova Lidia Nikolaeyvna - senior instructor
13. Nissinen Marjanne - senior instructor (Finland)
14. Pekshieva Marina Vladimirovna - senior instructor
15. Petrova Anna Alexandrovna - instructor
16. Pisnaja Raisa Nikolaevna - senior instructor
17. Tihonovich Elena Aleksandrovna - senior instructor

Finnish studies

The Finnish language is taught as a speciality since 1947. 260 students of the faculty of Baltic and Finnish Languages and Cultures major in the Finnish language. The faculty has worked out methods of teaching Finnish as a first and as a second language for different levels, including the beginner's and advanced. Several subjects in the third and fourth years of study are taught in Finnish (history of Finnish language, lexicology, stylistics of the Finnish language, introduction in Finno-Ugric studies, folklore and the literature of Karelia and Finland, etc.).

The Finnish language is taught as a foreign language on the faculties of history, agriculture, forest engineering, law and industrial and civil engineering.

Contacts with Finnish colleagues play an important role in providing an appropriate level of teaching. The chair gets a substantial assistance in acquiring new educational and research literature from the Ministry of Public Education of Finland and from various Finnish universities. Professors from Finland frequently come to lecture in Petrozavodsk University. Instructors from Finland teach at the chair on a regular basis.

The faculty members conduct research of the Finnish and Karelian languages and languages cognate with them, of Finnish and Karelian literatures, of Baltic onomastics, of translation theory and practice, of methods of teaching Finnish, etc. Besides, they jointly work on writing language textbooks for secondary and higher schools. The results of their work include 7 textbooks for secondary schools, 2 textbooks for higher schools, and several Finnish-Russian and Russian-Finnish dictionaries. The textbook "Puhuttan Suomea" (We Speak Finnish) has been reprinted several times already.

The students of the chair carry out term and diploma projects in various spheres of philology. They have teaching practice in schools, translating practice, and research practice including collecting dialectological and folklore materials.

Scientific interests of the personnel of the chair are the following:

Finnish grammar and the methodology of teaching it - Associate Professor M.I.Mullonen, Associate Professor L.E.Aleksandrova. They have prepared educational supplies for students and a number of textbooks for secondary and high schools.

Lexicography of Finnish language - Associate Professor M.E.Kuusinen, the author of academic Rissian-Finnish dictionaries and the Large Rissian-Finnish dictionary (1999, over 90 000 words, co-authors V.M.Ollykajnen and Ju.E.Sjurjalajnen), Rissian-Finnish dictionary of verbal government. (co-author V.S.Suhanova).

Grammar and lexics of closely related languages - Associate Professor M.I.Mullonen (Veps language).

Onomastics of Baltic-Finnish peoples - Associate Professor, Doctor of Philology I.I.Mullonen.

Literature of Karelia and Finland, literary and folk relations - Associate Professor T.I.Starshova and senior instructor of the chair E.V.Bogdanov.

The post-graduate students of the chair are working on the following problems:

"Ingermaland surnames: structural types and the basics of naming" - I.T.Iganus

"Finnish language in a foreign language environment" - I.P.Kozjar

"Neologisms of the 1990--th in Finnish press in the Republic of Karelia" - M.V.Larionova

"Semantics of phonation verbs in Finnish language" - A.E.Belikova

"Christian thesaurus in modern Finnish language. The Orthodox component." - E.V.Zaharova