finnougric

Open, community-driven collection of Udmurt historical photographs, linking dispersed archives and enriching them with local knowledge to restore provenance and context.

In 1869, the heir to the Russian throne visited Kazan — the capital of the Volga–Kama region, a crossroads of peoples, languages, and religions in the inner part of European Russia. Such visits were not merely ceremonial. They were moments when the empire staged itself: its geography, its diversity, its loyalty.

Rather than building a new platform or launching a large institutional programme, we focused on a carefully designed, hands-on intervention. The goal was to create a concrete, working example that could be expanded, criticised, reused, and—crucially—taken up by others.

The Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space is a research-driven data sharing space for reconnecting fragmented cultural heritage across languages, institutions, and countries.