One of the most significant and most cited books on the study of Karelian language and culture is the book by Finnish researcher Pertti Virtaranta “Studies on Karelian Culture”. This book, translated into Russian, was published by the Karelia publishing house in 1992. Now you can borrow it to read, for example, in the National Library of the Republic of Karelia. This book is worth paying close attention to if you are interested in the Karelian language and traditions. After all, it contains a lot of interesting information, which is often a discovery for the modern generation. The author, who visited Karelia many times in the 1950s - 1980s, met with many famous Karelian scientists, writers, journalists, actors, painters and other representatives of the creative intelligentsia, as well as with ordinary people from Karelian villages and residents of Petrozavodsk. It is interesting that even in the city, wherever and with whom Virtaranta spoke, everyone had Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish roots. The book tells in detail about the Karelian scientists who worked at the Institute of Language, Literature and History, with whom Virtaranta fruitfully collaborated. Here are many facts from the biography of each of those whose names have forever entered the history of Karelian science.