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Zunghars in Southern Russia in the Late 17th Сentury

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article is devoted to the migration of a part of Zunghars (Dzungar people) from Central Asia to the borders of South Russia in the late 17 century, which still remains insufficiently explored in the historiography.
V. T. Tepkeev
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Mingiyan Lidzhiev, about the Torghuts and Khoshuds

, 2019
Mingiyan recounts the history, composition and movement of various Torghut and Khoshud clans: Many years ago the Torghuts were divided into several ulus, including Iki-Tsokhurovsky, Baga-Tsokhurovsky, Erketenevsky and Yanga ulus.

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Kalmyks in the Persian Campaign of 1722: Introducing Some Newly Discovered Documents

Oriental Studies
Introduction. Recent times witness an increased interest in the written heritage of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russian-Kalmyk interactions. So, the paper introduces some collections from a variety of previously unpublished orders and edicts ...
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Konstantin Naktanov, about the Bagud clan

, 2019
In this interview Konstantin talks about the history and composition of the Bagud clan.Konstantin: Our clan, Bagud, descends from the younger brother of Ayuka Khan.

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Interview with Alexandr Povaev

, 2018
Alexandr was born in 1948 in the village of Podsosnovoe in Altaiskiy krai. Upon their return from Siberia the family settled in the village of Shin-Mer. In the beginning they lived in a dugout but later built a house. Alexandr’s grandfather was a saddler

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Arltan Baskhaev, A Brief Military History of the Kalmyk

, 2018
The integration of the Oirat/Kalmyks with the Russian state commenced at the beginning of the 17th century. Prior to this, they lived in south Siberia and in the 1620s came to Lower Volga which was the land of the Nogais who were the vassals of the ...

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Sanj Khoyt, The History of the Torghuts

, 2018
Sanj talks about the history of the Torghuts in Kalmykia. According to him, there are several versions of the etymology of the ethnonym Torghut. In the view of the French scholar Paul Pelliot, it derives from the Turkic verb ‘tur’ (to stand) + the plural

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Galina Yavanova, About the Bogdakhin Clan

, 2018
Galina talks about the history of the Bogdakhin clan. The Dalai Lama V and the Panchen Lama IV gave the Kalmyk people a mobile temple as a present. When the temple was brought to Kalmykia in 1681, Ayuka Khan and Monke Temir, who was a Derbet nobleman ...

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Batyr Elistaev, About the Bogdo Dalai Lamyn Rashi Lunpo Temple

, 2018
Batyr’s monastic name is Gonbo Dordzhe. He was born in 1965 in a cattle farm in Orgakin and spent his childhood with his grandparents. From his grandmother Batyr learnt about a temple that stood in the past in their native place.

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Arltan Baskhaev, Military Legends

, 2018
According to a legend about Chimid Baatr, he saved Russian prisoners from Nekrasov’s Cossacks who were intending to sell them as slaves in Crimea. After rescuing the Russians, Chimid Baatr headed with them to the nearest Russian garrison.

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