On the 17^th-18^th of April in 2024 in Moscow the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Russian Federal state-funded higher education organization, the Institute of Slavic Culture of the Russian State University named after A.N.Kosigin II International scientific conference was held on the theme of “Interdisciplinary studies in the humanities: a single traditional space of culture and the arts”. Well-known scientists from the scientific institutions of the cities of the Russian Federation, such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as from the republics and regions of the Russian Federation, took part in the conference. At the conference, scientists from a number of foreign countries, including Belarus, Tajikistan, Serbia, Japan, along with specialists in the field of humanities from the Russian Federation science centers and individual regions, made presentations. At the conference held in a hybrid format, conditions were created for the participants to present their reports online. In the report examples of Azerbaijani folklore of various genres were compared with the folklore of the peoples of the Russian Federation and the semantic elements determining the composition of the concept of unity were analyzed from a structural-typological point of view, common features and specific aspects were clarified in the cross-cultural aspect.