On 21-23 November 2017 the Saint Peterburg union of scientists and the Russian Geographical Society organized all-Russia interdiciplinary scientific conference «“Russian Himalayan Studies: yesterday, today, tomorrow”». Our team presented the talk “Linguistic expeditions to Indian Himalayas” at the linguistic part of the conference. The participants discussed some very important questions about the cooperation of the researches of the Himalayas region. The photos by Natalia Terexina are available here.