ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ К ПЕРВОМУ ВЫПУСКУ60 лет назад в Тартуском университете увидел свет первый выпуск ежегодника «Скандинавский сборник» 1 , который на протяжении 35 лет был основной научной площадкой, объединявшей нордистов нашей страны. Составители сборника ставили перед собой задачу изучения глубинных процессов развития народов и обществ стран Северной Европы, сосредоточившись, главным образом, не на войнах, а на мирных этапах истории как времени «наиболее естественных отношений между народами» (Вып. I. С. 5). Редакции удалось привлечь к участию в издании виднейших

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PREFACE OF THE FIRST ISSUE Sixty years ago the University of Tartu published the first issue of the annual titled Skandinavskii sbornik [The Scandinavian Review], 1 which for the next thirty-five years served as the main scholarly forum for the Soviet scholars of the Nordic studies. Its editors aimed to study the long-term historical processes in the communities and nations of Northern Europe, focusing mainly on the periods of peace, rather than on wars, arguing that peaceful coexistence is "the most natural relations among the nations" (Issue 1, page 5). The editorial board cooperated with the leading specialists in the archaeology, ethnography, history, economy, languages, literatures, and art of the Nordic countries from many Soviet universities, as well as from Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, and Poland. The contribution of The Scandinavian Review to the development of the Nordic studies in the USSR and its successor states is hard to overestimate. Unfortunately, the collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of the annual. Its last XXXIIIth issue was published in 1990. 2 During the Soviet era, major schools of the Nordic studies emerged at the institutes of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and universities in such cities as Moscow, Leningrad, Tartu and Petrozavodsk.

This outline of the history of the National Theatre of Karelia (Karjalan Kansallinen teatteri) is dedicated to its 85th anniversary and aims at filling in the gaps and correcting some mistakes that can still be found in scholar and popular publications.