Paper is devoted to the fate of Russian polar expedition of G. L. Brusilov on the schooner "SV.Anna" in 1912-1914, who is considered missing North of Franz Josef Land. The author summarizes the documents and literature on the expedition of G. L. Brusilov and analyzes the information according to which the expedition members who remained after the departure of the party of V. I. Albpean ports. These data include the appearance of Erminia Brusilova in Riga in the 1920s and 1930s, and the steering wheel with the icon of St. Anna Kashinskaya and the inscription "…andora", taken from an old sailboat in the North sea in 1945-46 and stored in a port tavern in Stralsund, a letter from France searching for relatives of the sailors from the "St. Anna" in the Murmansk region in the 1970s. The author believes that familiarity with the materials of the drift of " St. Anna" defined the plans of French polar explorations undertaken by J. F. Charcot in the 1920s. It is suggested that the personal mail of the expedition participants was left by G. L. Brusilov on the ship when he made additions to the ship's log. The fate of V. I. Albanov, in which many ambiguities remain, may be determined by the news of the rescue of G. L. Brusilov and his sailors, which obliged V. I. Albanov to return to G. L. Brusilov the value of the property he took from the ship.

The theme of nature is the central theme in the work of Northern writers. It vividly and uniquely reflects the culture of human-nature relations, which are based primarily on a careful and respectful attitude to nature as a source of life, the continuity of generations, and the preservation and well-being of Wildlife itself. The article presents a review of critical literature on perception and the image of nature by northern literature authors as exemplified by the story “Bear grief” by a Khanty prose writer E. Aypin. Rituals and customs connected with the image of a bear and their reflection in the Khanty literature are observed. The article suggests the analysis of the story in the context of which the image of a bear is found as a symbol of solidarity of Man and Nature.

The article examines some of the features of the functioning of Yakut borrowings in the Upper Kolyma, Tompon, Lower Kolyma dialects of the Even language. Earlier, some specific features of the Even-Yakut bilingualism were considered fragmentarily in the dialectological works of Even scholars. The lexical material of the studied dialects demonstrates the process of close linguistic and cultural interaction with the Yakut ethnos on the territory of Yakutia. In these Even dialects, Yakut lexical borrowings are revealed in all thematic groups. In the borrowing language, the lexemes included from the source language are adapted at all language levels and are characterized by a number of features. The material for the study of Yakut borrowings was the author's field materials collected in different years in the Nizhnekolymsky, Tomponsky, Verkhnekolymsky uluses of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2013-2015) and published publications on dialects and dialects of the Even language.

The content presented is based on a presentation the author prepared for the Online International Scientific Summer School, 2020, in which the purpose was to discuss relevant requirements for international research collaboration. Thus, from the standpoint of an educator and applied linguist, concepts on interculture and its connection to education are focused. An illustration of a Project with these underlying concepts are provided, aiming at setting the ground for future international research collaborations.