Svetlana Vasilievna Zharnikova

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She was born in Vladivostok, Primorsky Territory.

• In 1970 she graduated from the Faculty of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. E. Repin in Leningrad. She worked in the city of Anapa of the Krasnodar Territory and the city of Krasnodar.
• From 1978 to 2002 she lived and worked in Vologda.
• From 1978 to 1990 - researcher at the Vologda Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.
• From 1990 to 2002 - Research Fellow, then Deputy Director for Research at the Vologda Scientific and Methodological Center of Culture. She taught at the Vologda Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Pedagogical Personnel and the Vologda State Pedagogical Institute.
• From 1984 to 1988 he studied at the Postgraduate School of the Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. She defended her dissertation “Archaic motives of North Russian ornamentation (on the question of possible Proto-Slavic-Indo-Iranian parallels). Candidate of Historical Sciences.
• Since 2001, a member of the International Club of Scientists.
• Since 2003 he has been living and working in St. Petersburg.
• November 26, 2015 passed away
• The main circle of scientific interests: Arctic ancestral home of the Indo-Europeans; the Vedic origins of the North Russian folk culture; archaic roots of the North Russian ornament; Sanskrit roots in the topo and hydronymy of the Russian North; rituals and ceremonial folklore; semantics of folk costume.

Excerpt from an interview with Svetlana Vasilievna:

It was all very simple. First, as any normal person, I was interested to know: “Who are we, where are we from and where are we going? But that was a long time ago, I am still an art critic, I graduated from the Academy of Arts. And because, by the will of fate, we had to leave Krasnodar, because due to the illness of my husband, we had to change the climate to a more continental one. So my two children and I arrived in Vologda. At first, I led excursions as a junior researcher in the Vologda Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve. Then I was asked to develop some scientific topic, but so as not to interfere with anyone. Then I decided to deal with ornament, although it was believed that everyone already knew about it. And then a paradoxical thing was discovered, which is in the North Russian ornament: in the Abashev and Andronov cultures, these ornaments do not go beyond the limits of the so-called Aryan circle. Then a chain stretched: since there was a glacier here, then when these very Slavs, the Finougrians came here. Then it turns out that the glacier was not there at all. In addition, the climatic characteristics were more optimal than in western Europe. And then it turns out that the climate here was generally superb, as climatologists say. If so, who lived here? Anthropologists claim that there were no Mongoloid characteristics here, they were classical Caucasians, and the Finougri were classical Mongoloids. Then it was necessary to resort to scientific evidence: after all, there is anthropology, linguistics, geomorphology, and so on. You collect all this data like a Rubik's cube, and if nothing falls out of context, then everything is correct. The time of analysis has passed and the time of synthesis has come, which can last for centuries. Today we have geographical names, we have vocabulary, an anthropological type, we have historical data, we have an ornament, certain ritual structures, we have certain texts that decipher these ritual structures; and all this taken together, plus the conclusions made by Jean Selmen Bai, Warren, Tilak, who are not interested in the apologetics of Russian history. We take it all together and get the result."

Excerpt from speech (March 2009)

Indeed, today there is a huge struggle and the struggle is already geopolitical. Indeed, the point is that a new ideology of Russia, of multinational Russia, which unites all of its peoples on the basis of their common kinship, their common ancestral homeland and common history, should be built. Regardless of the confessional and national fragmentation that takes place today. And therefore, turning to our ancient roots, to those origins, we can state with you: “Yes, it seems we are all different, but today geneticists are already talking about ekuts, who call themselves Sakha, that is, people of Sakha (deer, elk), Central Russian, North-West Indians, modern Tatars have the same set of antigens. What does this mean? About genetic relationship.

… Comrades, my dear friends, compatriots, we already have the Vedas, there is no need to invent anything. What the Aryans took to the territory of Hindustan, what they kept as a shrine, which did not affect any other confessions and could not work …

In order to know your history, it is enough to read the hymns of the Rig Veda and the Avesta, which both the ancient Iranians and the ancient Indians carried away to their new territory and kept as a shrine, like the apple of their eye. They had no right not only to change the syllable or word, but even intonation; and they came down to us. Let's not invent anything, invent anything, we have a huge, deep past; for many thousands of tens of years we cannot now cover it, we cannot understand the knowledge that came to us in fairy tales, in songs, in rituals, in everything. Elementary is what has survived in our religious system, what has gone into Orthodoxy: "God is light and there is no darkness in him." Why, the ancient Aryans said the same thing: initially there was light, and everything that surrounds us is only an emanation of light, it is only an illusion of light. We come from the light and go to the “other world”. And we are leaving the world of reality, which is ruled by the world, to the world of Navi. And nav in Sanskrit, which means in our language with you, means new, fresh, young. We go into another light in order to cleanse ourselves in it, return back and rise to a new level. And so on to infinity until we gain the right to be a saint, that is, to have a light body and not come back.

… Understand that any inspiration, illumination, enlightenment of a researcher is a huge titanic work, it is always a sacrifice. And in this our ancestors were right: yes, sacrifice is our life. And when it dawns on us, when we are working on the brink of a heart attack, our brain consumes 3-4 times more blood than in normal state. This means that the brain is straining, the blood vessels are straining. We pay for these discoveries with ourselves, with our lives, with our blood.

I urge you: be polite, people, be vigilant. Respect your predecessors. When you create something, your followers will rely on you. After all, this is the foundation on which a new ideologeme is being built, for ideology is the ideals embodied in the word, or rather in the law. And without them, no ethnic group can exist. And striving to build a new Russian ideology based on our past, we say: yes, all the peoples of our country are united, they grew up from the same soil, they have a common blood, a common history, common roots, so let's live in peace …

S. V. Golubev