1. Faculty of Humanities
Department of Cultural
Studies and Journalism

2. History of the Department of Cultural
Studies and Journalism
 Department of Cultural Studies was established in Vyatka State University
in 2002. The founder and first head of the department was Sergei Lipin,
PhD, Professor, Honored Employee of Higher Education of Russia.
 Since 2007, the head of the department is Elvira Viktorovna Gmyzina, PhD
Cultural Studies, Associate Professor. There are 1 Doctor of Science, 1
professor, 10 PhD’s and Associate Professors. Percentage of staff with
academic degree is 88%.
 Teachers of the department do lecturing in cultural disciplines (cultural
studies, history, world and national culture), and conduct classes in rhetoric,
Russian language and culture of speech, culture of business communication
in all faculties of the University.
 Since 2003, the department prepare specialists in "Cultural Studies", since
2011 it also prepares specialists in "Journalism". Due to the expansion of
activities in 2011 the department was renamed in the Department of Cultural
Studies and Journalism.

3. Training area of the Department: 033000
Cultural Studies
Profiles of Bachelors:
Management of social
culture
Culture Communications
Profile of Masters:
Socio-cultural design

4. Training area of the Department: 031300
Journalism
Profiles of Bachelors:
Television journalism
Multimedia journalism
Profile of Masters:
History, language and
style of the media
(scheduled since 2014)

5. Training area of the Department: 031600
Advertising and Public Relations
Profile of Bachelors:
Advertising and Public
Relations in
commercial sphere

6. Ph.D. theses defense of the Department
staff
 2006 – Gorodilova Tatyana Segreevna
Specialty: 09.00.01 – Ontology and epistemology
Research topic: Ontology of daily routine and non-classical epistemology of Rozanov V.V.
 2006 – Desyatkova Olga Vladimirovna
Specialty: 24.00.01 – Theory and History of Culture
Research topic: The idea of individual freedom in culturological conception of Merezhkovsky D.S.
 2007 – Voronova Elena Vasilyevna
Specialty: 24.00.01 – Theory and History of Culture
Research topic: The mythology of daily routine in the culture of the Russian emigration in 1917-1939
on the memoirs material .
 2007 – Zlobin Andrei Alexandrovich
Specialty: 10.02.01 – Russian Language
Research topic: Semantics and function of the word Freedom in the works of Solzhenitsyn A.I.
 2011 – Nagovitsyna Marina Petrovna
Specialty: 10.01.09 – Folkloristics
Research topic: Traditional fair folklore in modern festivals.

7. Postgraduate studies
24.00.01 - Theory and History of Culture
• In 2009 a new postgraduate studies Specialty
was established in the Department: 24.00.01 –
Theory and History of Culture
• Currently there are:
2 full-time post-graduate students, 1 extramural
studies post-graduate students.

8. Scientific conferences at the Department
of Culture and Journalism
Each year, there are intercollegiate scientific conferences for students
and postgraduate students in the department, the results of which are
published anthologies of scientific publications:
 «The study of cultural texts» (2007),
 «Problems of the study of personality in culture» (2008),
 «Problems of cultural identity in the age of globalization» (2009),
 «Interpretation of history in changing cultural contexts» (2010),
 «The phenomenon of creativity in the context of the development of
culture» (2011),
 «Eternal cultural values ​​in a changing world» (2012),
 «Development strategies of cultural policy in the modern world»
(2013).

9. Grant activities:
 Research for the grant of the President of the Russian
Federation for young scientists and scientific schools
support (МК-3344.2012.6)
 Research topic : «Cultural Landscape of Vyatka in the
meta geographical dimension».
 Head – Department of Cultural Studies, docent O.V.
Desyatkova.
 Executors: Department of Cultural Studies, docent E.V.
Voronova, postgraduate L.A. Lobachova.

10. Research work
of the Department of Cultural Studies
and Journalism

11. A person as an object and a subject of media culture:
a global media environment and its effect on society
Media Culture - a special type of information society culture, the study of which
requires an interdisciplinary cognitive approach based on scientific principles of
cultural studies, semiotics, journalism, mass communication theory, management.
The object of the study is a person, his nature, social status, ideological positions,
spiritual and moral character, intellectual development prospects.
Publications:
Gmyzina E.V. «Genre of television news as a reflection of self-consciousness of modern
society», «Appropriation of the past or the reality of media history», «TV talk show as a
model of global mass culture», «Man on TV: the evolution of TV images», «Media
reality as a space of neoarchaic».
Gorodilova T.S. «The phenomenon of cultural memory in the information society: statement
of the problem», «Creating and saving digital cultural heritage in Russia: Problems and
Prospects».
Voronova E.V. «Domestic media and social media interaction», «Online media and social
networks integration in RuNet».

12. Cultural Landscape of Vyatka in the meta
geographical dimension
This project is devoted to the imaginative geography, also known as the geography
of the imagination. This area of the modern humanities is not fully studied. The
perception of space and features of local mythology is to being studied in the
context of the cultural history of the Vyatka region . The project is funded by
the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and
scientific schools support.
Publications
Desyatkova O.V. «Meta geographical image of Vyatka in fiction», «Novgorod colonization of Vyatka in
the context of sacred geography of the Russian North», «Sacred geography of South Vyatka cities:
intersection of pagan and Christian world view», «Geo poetic image of the Russian province in the
works of Vyatka exiles», «Images of modern Russian Province: Geo poetic journey to Vyatka»,
«Town planning ideas of Khlynov in sacred geography of Moskovskaya Rus», «Ustnedumskaya
abode: the theology of the "island of salvation" in Vyatka land».
Lobachova L.A. «Park culture of Kirov in the context of Soviet gardens and parks development in
30-50's. twentieth century», «Ryabovo village as an associative landscape in the art of Appolinary
and Victor Vasnetsovs».
Desyatkova O.V., Voronova E.V. Cultural environment of Vyatka in XVI - beginning of XX
century: Traning manual. – Kirov: publishing house «O-Kratkoye», 2012. – 128 p.

13. Multi-ethnic and multi-faith culture
environment of Vyatka
The Volgo-Vyatsky region is home to people with a rich spiritual and material heritage.
The worldview reflection in folk art, book culture, iconography and architecture.
The object of the study is peculiarities of interaction and the formation of cultural
space in the context of the multi-ethnic and multi-faith environment of the region.
Publications
Bikova E.S. «Modern problems of expeditionary research in the study of national traditional
culture and arts in the humanities and creative occupations», «The Image of Piligrim in
the World Art from the Middle Ages to modernity», «Sacred space of the prayer house in
the Pomeranian Old Believers Church», «Iconographic features of Our Lady image of the
Old Believers environment», «Features of the Russian consciousness and its
manifestation in the iconographic image of holiness», «Stories about the holy places in
Old Believers of Zavolzhie (in dilogy of P.I. Melnikov-Pechersky "In the woods" and "At
the Mountainss")», «The ritual of forgiveness in the Russian Orthodox culture»,
«Iconographic features of Old Believer icons in the Volga-Vyatsky region».

14. Modern world language landscape
In recent years, world language landscape has become one of the most topical issues of linguistics. It
includes the representation of reality, as reflected in the language of signs and meanings and also
the results of the objective world reflection by an ordinary or artistic mind of a language
community. Language world landscape is created by the nominative, functional and imaginative
means of a language. They are the main object of study in this research.
Publications
Degtyarova M.M. “Near-far“ opposition as an artistic interpretation of the text (based on the poem "The
Dream“, Lermontov M.Y.), Codify and conspiracy function substantive metaphorical phrases in the
poetry of the Silver Age (on the base of the semantic field of a word "city"), Author’s sensual picture of
the world (based on the poem "The Dream“, by Lermontov M.Y.).
Zlobin A.A. Russian concept of "freedom" from the dictionary to the text (based on the works of
Solzhenitsyn A.I.), Artistic concept of "freedom" in the linguistic world of Solzhenitsyn A.I, "Liberty
and Freedom: The comparative aspect of performance (based on the works of Solzhenitsyn A.I.)“.
"The semantic structure of the adjective “free” in the works of Solzhenitsyn A.I."," Research work of
authorship: textual aspect. "
Gmyzina E.V. Color as Lingvo-cultural concept of medieval Russia, Semantics of color designation as an
arena of interaction between cultures in the modern world, Lingvo-culturology in the context of
modern linguistics humanities: the justification of the term "world language landscape“. Color as a
cultural and language concept of medieval Russia.

15. Methods of teaching Russian and Culture of Speech
at the University
Formation of speech competency of a specialist is one of the objectives of higher education.
This requires continuous improvement of teaching methods and rhetorical language
modules disciplines, improve the methodological theory.
Publications
Degtyarova M.V. Functional stylistics of the Russian language (study guide), Practical work on literature
the history of language (study guide), Practical work on the Russian language: spelling and
punctuation (study guide).
Zlobin A.A. Russian language and culture of speech. Normative aspect (study guide), orthoepic norms of
modern Russian language (teaching aid), Practical work on Modern Russian punctuation (teaching
aid).
Isupova S.M. "Art of Speech" (study guide), “Technique of work with artistic text", "Possibilities of
electronic aids in the study of the humanities“, “Development of student speech culture in the
information society."
Komarova N.I. “Culture of scientific speech“ (study guide), "Theoretical basis for the formation of
professional language culture of the future experts“ , “The problems of teaching Russian for foreign
students at Russian universities. "

16. Problems of business culture development in Russia
Business culture - a social and cultural phenomenon that characterizes the
new formation of relations, which is closely related to the market
economies. Penetrating all spheres of human activity, it not only creates
different values ​​with the professional community, but transforms and
traditional culture and directs it to the path of the new civilization
development, which the modern Russian society will have to go through.
Publications
Yurochkina I.N. "Elements of methodical system for creating a business culture of the future
manager in the university", "Formation of the business culture of the future manager of the
university", "Research of management anomalies of government employees: a bribe or a gift?“,
"Moral portrait of a government employee at the present time (according to the diagnosis of
students and employees of the public service)“.
Shamov I.V. "The stages of development of the business culture", "Creative potential as the basis of
the modernization of Russia", "Creating internal corporate universities as a way to develop
creative potential of staff," "innovative companies as a condition of the formation of its
competitiveness", "The role of government in enhancing innovation activity of companies. "

17. Sound-music-culture: theoretical and historical aspects of
the study
As part of an interdisciplinary study, many different schools achievements are verified:
in schools of musicology, ethnography, cultural anthropology and sociology.
Empirical musical material is related to philosophy and synergetics the one hand,
and psychoacoustics and cognitive science, on the other.
Publications
Chashina S.V. "Debussy: search of the archaic music style (some features of intonation
rhythm-parallelism in the composers work)", “Tune-Sound-sonor as the basis of musical
architectonics", "Piano sound of Claude Debussy: between tradition and avant-garde."
Desyatkova O.V. Музыкальные стили Западной Европы в историческом развитии (учебное
пособие). Musical styles of Western Europe in the historical development (thestudy
guide).

18. Research interests of the
Department of Cultural Studies
and Journalism

19. Elvira Viktorovna Gmyzina,
PhD Cultural Studies, docent, Head of the Department of
Cultural Studies and Journalism
Research area:
 History and semiotics of
culture,
 Media Culture,
 Socio-cultural design,
 The history of domestic
journalism

20. Gorodilova Tatyana Sergeyevna,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 Theory, philosophy
and methodology of
culture
 Culture Information
Society
 Media philosophy.

21. Desyatkova Olga Vladimirovna,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 problem of the
formation and
development of the
cultural landscape of
Russian provinces
(based on the example
of Vyatka culture)
 sociology of culture.

22. Voronova Elena Vasilyevna,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 Applied Cultural
Studies,
 The influence of
creative industries on
the cultural landscape,
 Cultural Studies in
everyday life.

23. Bykova Ekaterina Vasilyevna,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 старообрядческая
культура в Волго-
Вятском регионе,
 старопечатные и
рукописные книги,
 иконописание XVII –
XXI вв.,
 стилистические
особенности развития
искусства.

24. Chashina Svetlana Vasilyevna,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 Note value in works of
K. Debussy
 Visual Culture
 Design: Theory,
History, Practice

25. Yurochkina Irina Nikolaevna,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 профессиональная
(деловая) этика,
 мультимедийные
технологии в
образовательном
процессе.

26. Nagovitsina Marina Petrovna,
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies
and Journalism
Research area:
 Traditional fair folklore
in modern mass
celebrations
 Modern technologies of
socio-cultural activities.

27. Shamov Igor Vyacheslavovich,
Lecturer of the Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 A individual in today's
business culture,
 Corporate culture

28. Degteryova Marina Valeryevna,
PhD, Prof, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 Morphology and Syntax
of the modern Russian
language,
 Russian, stylistics and
culture of speech,
 History of the styles of
fiction

29. Zlobin Andrei Alexndrovich,
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 Russian language world
landscape,
 Cognitive Linguistics,
 Linguistic and Cultural
Studies.

30. Isupova Svetlana Mikhailovna
PhD, docent, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 Russian language
ecology,
 literature regional
studies,
 evolutionary processes
in the development of
Russian literature of the
XIX century.

31. Komarova Nadezhda Ivanovna,
Senior Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies and
Journalism
Research area:
 students speech culture
development,
 teaching Russian as a
foreign language

32. Contacts:
Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation
Sergei Gennadyevich Litvinets
Phone: 88332 64-15-91.
E-mail: litvinets@vyatsu.ru
Department of Cultural Studies and Journalism
Phone: 88332 64-40-10
Е-mail: kaf_kulturologia@vyatsu.ru