Staff of the Laboratory

Staff of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Linguoculturology

The following researchers work in the laboratory: Nadezhda D. Suvandii, Shenne Yu. Kuzhuget, Shenne B. Mainy, and Choygan Kh. Sanchay.



Suvandii, Nadezhda D.

Suvandii, Nadezhda Daryevna, Project Manager (2023), Candidate of Philology, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory; Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Tuvan State University.

She is an expert in the field of Tuvan language studies. She defended her thesis on the topic “Tuvan Anthroponymy” at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2005.

She has more than 100 research publications, including monographs “Tuvan Anthroponymy” (2011), “Tyva dylda ivi azhyl-agyi leksikazy” [“Vocabulary of Reindeer Husbandry in the Tuvan Language”] (2014), “Microtoponymy of Sumon Tsengel of the Bayan-Ölgii aimag in Mongolia” (2019).

RSCI AuthorID: 444778

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3817-2436

Scopus ID: 57202405620



Mainy, Shenne B.

Mainy, Shenne Borisovna, Candidate of Culturology, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory; Associate Professor, Department of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Kyzyl Pedagogical Institute, Tuvan State University.

She pursues research in the field of traditional festive culture and ethno-choreography of the Tuvans. In 2014, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Culturology on the topic “Folk Games in the Traditional Festive Culture of the Tuvans: A Historical and Cultural Analysis” (Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts).

She is the author of more than 50 publications, including a monograph (“Folk Games in the Traditional Festive Culture of the Tuvans: A Historical and Cultural Analysis”, 2018).

RSCI AuthorID: 736212

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9106-2148

Scopus ID: 57201773998


Kuzhuget, Shenne Yu

Kuzhuget, Shenne Yurievna, Candidate of Philology, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory; Head, Department of Pedagogy and Methods of Preschool and Primary Education, Tuvan State University.

She does research in the field of the Tuvan language and culture. In 2015, she defended her Candidate’s dissertation “Lexical and Semantic Field of Natural Time in the Prose by K.-E. Kudaji” at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Shenne Yu. Kuzhuget is the author of more than 30 scholarly works.

AuthorID RSCI: 666750

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3507-3053

Scopus ID: 57205260013


Sanchai Choigan Kherel-oolovna

Sanchai Choigan Kherel-oolovna, Candidate of Culturology, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory (since 2022); Lecturer of the Department of Philosophy of Tuva State University. Honored Artist of the Republic of Tuva.

She pursues research in the field of traditional culture and the reflection of traditions in professional art. In 2021, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Culturology on the topic “Semantics of traditional dance culture of Tuvans” (Siberian Federal University).

She is the author of more than 9 scientific publications.

RSCI AuthorID: 1017335

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6929-9050

Scopus ID: 57210370522