In 2018 the 8th International Conference “Written Monuments of the East. Translation and Interpretation Problems” (October 31, 2018 - November 2, 2018) was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academyof Sciences. At the conference sessions more than 40 papers were presented byscholars from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Cambridge, Leiden, London,Rome and Toronto. All of them were devoted to the study of the classical heritage ofthe East - manuscripts and visual arts, folklore, religion and mythology. This explainsthe growing popularity of our conference, year by year, its expanding thematicspectrum and range of participants. As in previous years, the conference’s organizerwas the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Department ofWritten Monuments of the East).