Audiovisual documenting of the Udmurt religious rites in the times of the Soviet Union
On February 20, 2013, on the eve of the International day of the native languages and in the framework of celebrated this year in Estonia Year of cultural heritage, in the Exibition House of the Estonian national museum there was a presentation of DVD called «Estonian ethnographic film II. The Udmurts», that consists of three ethnographic films, shot in 1980th during the united work of the State Ethnografhic museum of ESSR (nowadays Estonian national museum, ENM) and the Udmurt republican Museum of local lore (nowadays National Museum of the Udmurt Republic named after Kuzebaj Gerd, NMUR); scientific heads of the shooting were Serafima Lebedeva and Aleksej Peterson, cameraman – Aado Lintrop. Honorable Vladykin Vladimir Yemeljanovich, who is celebrating his anniversary this year, is one of the scientific consultants of both films about the southern Udmurts and a joint author of the text (together with A. Peterson) of the film about religious rites (it should be noted that he didn't take part in shooting itself). Examining joint expeditions as the dialog of objects (a carriers of the Udmurt culture) and subjects (researchers Estonians) of the ethnological research, where each of the parties amends the result of the research, it is analyzed how much were the researchers with camera expected on the praying and how were the Udmurts themselves ready to the dialogue with «strangers» on the religious topics in the Soviet time.