Institute of the Peoples of the North

Institute of the Peoples of the North
Институт Народов Севера
Established1930 (1930)
Parent institution
Herzen University (since 1948)
Location,
Russia

The Institute of the Peoples of the North (Russian: Институт Народов Севера, romanizedInstitut Narodov Severa) is a research and higher education institute based in Saint Petersburg. Its objective is to examine topics related to the northern minorities in the Soviet Union, and to prepare teachers for the northern boarding schools. One of the central figures involved in the research institute was Vladimir Bogoraz.