Institute of the Peoples of the North

One of the central figures involved in the research institute was Vladimir Bogoraz.

By the end of 1929, the institute's teachers had joined forces to create the Unified Northern Alphabet[1] for use by the linguistic minorities living in the north of the Soviet Union.

On December 13, 1930, the Presidium of the Scientific Investigation Association at the institute presented a version of the Unified Northern Alphabet to the Scientific Council of the USSR's Central Committee on Alphabet Adaptation (Russian: Всесоюзного центрального комитета нового алфавита, romanized: Vsesoyuznogo tsentral'nogo komiteta novogo alfavita).

In addition, some letters were marked with diacritics to show palatalization, length and aspiration.

The finalisation of principles for creation of a literary public institution for the peoples of the north came at the first pan-Russian conference.