Reading the Runes of the Kalevala
The Karelo-Finnish epic has been translated into many languages. On this day, the epic was read in Russian, Karelian, Finnish, Belarusian, Meadow Mari, and Nenets.
First-year students Ladhava Kajalben Maheshbhai, Nagar Paheli Sureshbhai, Parmar Rahil Hitesh, Patel Princi Hiteshkumar, and Patel Happy Subhash read excerpts from the runes in Hindi. For the first time, student Peter Victor King performed the Kalevala in Tamil, one of the oldest classical languages in the world. The National Library holds a translation of the Karelo-Finnish epic in Tamil.
Student of the Glazunov Petrozavodsk State Conservatory Huang Men'an recited runes in Chinese.
N.G. Urvantseva, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Russian as a Foreign Language for Medical Specialties at PetrSU, prepared the students' presentation.
