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The Fifth International Congress of Slavists recently concluded its fruitful work in our capital city. By general recognition, this is the largest scientific congress that has ever taken place in our country. The most prominent Slavologists from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Canada, Norway, Poland, Romania, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hungary, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Yugoslavia, the Union of South Africa took part in its diverse scientific work. .. For a whole week, in the halls of Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski" one could hear a variety of reports on the Slavic languages ​​and their general patterns; on the place, great role and importance of Slavic literatures in the development of world literature; on new searches in the field of poetics and stylistics; about the rich past and present state of Slavic folk poetry or about the turbulent history of the Slavic peoples. . More than five hundred scientific reports were read, accompanied by over two thousand speeches. Considering that only over one thousand two hundred foreign delegates were present at the congress, in addition to the guests and the numerous Bulgarian delegation, one can judge the great activity and liveliness of the discussions. The following sections met continuously: five sections of poetry studies - Slavic literary languages, comparative-historical and typological Slavic linguistics, Slavic dialectology, interaction of Slavic and non-Slavic languages, language unions and onomastics, descriptive and applied Slavic linguistics: four sections of literary studies - general problems, Slavic literatures until the end of the 17th century, Slavic literatures in the 18th-19th centuries and modern Slavic literatures, one section of literary-linguistic problems; one section on the problems of folk art and two sections on historical and philological problems - ethnogenesis of the Slavs, the formation of Slavic states and the development of the social thought of the Slavic peoples in the Middle Ages. The national revival of the Slavic peoples. National liberation and revolutionary movement. Development of social thought in modern times. The October Socialist Revolution and the Slavic peoples. The social and cultural development of the Slavic peoples after the Second World War and problems of Slavic ethnography.