A structural subdivision of the Federal state budget scientific institution «The Udmurt Federal Research Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences».

The Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Udmurt Federal Research Centre of the Ural Branch of RAS is an academic centre that received recognition in Russia and abroad due to its research in the field of Finno-Ugric studies. The Institute was founded as a research institute under the Council of Ministers of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1931. In February 1988 the Institute became a part of the USSR Academy of Science.

The Institute focuses its attention on:

     -    complex interdisciplinary research on history and ethnography of the Ural-Volga nations,

     -    spiritual values of national literature and folklore,

     -    lingo-culturological analysis of linguistic processes in the region.

The development of the problems cultural Genesis in the Volga-Kama region in ancient times and middle ages, national state building of the Eastern Finnish peoples, peasantry studies, ethnomusicology, ethnoarcheology, comparative linguistics, onomatology,  specific features of minor Literature was in many respect initiated by the scientists of the Institute and largely solved successfully.

The result of the scientific activity is annually published proceedings including monographs, collected works, monuments of writing and culture, textbooks and teaching aids, encyclopedias.

In the scientific library there are concentrated history and culture storks of the region (60.602 copies), with more than 1400 editions comprising rare stock.

During the years of the Institute existence and functioning of the scientific archive (since the early 1930s) a huge array of documents on folklore, linguistics, ethnography of the people in Udmurtia as well as the Udmurts living outside the Republic (4.234 storage units of written documents and 5.783 units of photomaterials). The first audio recordings were made in the early sixties. Since the 1990s they have started joint expeditions with the employers of the Museum named after Kreitsvald (Estonia, Tartu),   the Institute of Musicology (Budapest, Hungary), the Centre of World Music (Helsinki, Finland), the University of Tampere (Finland). Gradually a solid source base in the form of handwritten notebooks and photograms on different carriers was created. At present there are about 1000 audio cassettes (more than 1300hs of sounding) with the recordings of the folklore material and field theme interviews.

In 2010 the laboratory of Sound Digitalization equipped with up-to-date devices and modern software was founded with the support of the British library. It resulted in the translation of analog recordings into a digital format wav.(6.066 storage units) with the inventory attacheol to every digital unit.