Professor of the West Kazakhstan Innovative and Technological University, Doctor of Philology, Professor Sabyr Murat Bukenbaevich and Master of Pedagogy Akhmetov Talgat Ruslanovich went on a scientific trip to St. Petersburg (the Russian Federation) from October 19 to 26, 2024, within the framework of the grant funding project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2023-2025 “The Language of Medieval Written Monuments – the World of Spiritual and Cultural Values”. The purpose of the scientific visit is to conduct research work on the topic of this project, to get acquainted with the research conducted and being conducted by Russian Turkologists.

For this purpose, the scientists visited the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), where they met and talked with Inga Vladimirovna Stasevich, a senior researcher at the Department of Ethnography of Central Asia, Candidate of Historical Sciences.

Also the scientists visited the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, one of the largest and richest libraries in the world, located on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg, where they worked with materials related to monuments of medieval writing, oriental manuscripts, Study of Turkic languages, history of language, linguistics and linguacultural studies.

Research work was also carried out in the library of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University, one of the oldest universities in the world, founded 300 years ago, which is a center of science and education, where they met with the head of the Department of Turkic Philology, Nikolay Nikolaevich Telitsyn and the head of the Department of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Zarina Alievna Dzhandosova, and established partnerships.

Also, Sabyr M.B. and Akhmetov T.R. participated in the XXXIX Kononov Memorial Lectures, which were held at St. Petersburg State University on November 25-26, where they got acquainted and exchanged experiences with foreign Turkologists. Sabyr M.B. and Akhmetov T.R. completed a scientific internship related to the topic of their research work at the International Academy of Modern Professional Education.