PetrSU takes part in events aimed at preserving, developing and popularizing the Karelian rune-singing tradition. Teachers and students of PetrSU took part in the XV scientific conference “Local history readings”: “Karelia in word, text, image”, held within the framework of the Year of Karelian runes. Local history readings in 2021 are devoted to works about Karelia in the broadest sense – these are literary works, visual images (documentary and feature films, performances, painting, monumental art, etc.), scientific research, travelers’ notes, diaries, memoirs, letters, etc. etc. The conference participants presented reports not only about the works themselves, but also about the conditions of their creation, their authors, about their influence on contemporaries and subsequent generations, as well as reports on individual settlements of Karelia.