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Public Healthcare System in Early 20th Century Kalmyk Steppe
Introduction. The article discusses the urgent issue of the development of health care in Kalmyk uluses in the early 20th century. Its relevance is obvious, granted the scarce historiography in the field: very little has been published on the subject, some recent papers describing briefly and schematically medical care offered to the Kalmyk nomad ...
Alexander N. Komandzhaev +2 more
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Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations [PDF]
The southern Siberian Turkic groups were mostly unknown to outsiders when the Swedish scientist Johan Peter Falck (1732–1774) visited their settlements in the early 1770s.
Stahlberg, Sabira, Svanberg, Ingvar
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Introduction. The article discusses the history of the creation and organization of the activities of the Council of Kalmyk Administration, which carried out the administrative management of the Kalmyk steppe of the Astrakhan province in the period from ...
Mandzhikova Larisa B.
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Introduction. The paper examines traditional Kalmyk society during WWI. The Soviet-era historiography dealing with the issue in question is limited to few articles published in the 1960s–1980s. More attention has been paid to the topic relatively recently, and some of its aspects need further additions, since this tends to become relevant enough in the
Alexandr N. Komandzhaev +1 more
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Consolidated Annual Reports of the Kalmyk Administration: Historiographic Heuristics
The article deals with the annual reports of the Kalmyk Administration which are an umbrella type of record keeping documentation for studies of the political, economic, social and cultural development of Kalmyk Steppe of Astrakhan Governorate.
L. V. Okonova
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New records of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from Dagestan, Russia [PDF]
Twenty-three species of lichens and five lichenicolous fungi are reported for the first time for Dagestan. Of them, Bellemerella polysporinae, Lecanora pannonica, Opegrapha lutulenta, Porpidinia tumidula and Verrucaria praerupta are new to Caucasus and ...
Ismailov, Aziz, Urbanavichus, Gennadii
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Climate Change, Desertification, and Water Stress in Kalmykia [PDF]
In Russia as a whole, climate change has led to higher temperatures, permafrost thawing, human health impacts due to extreme heat, and higher incidence of forest fires and other natural disasters, among other country-wide consequences. Warming associated
Churyumova, Elvira, Holland, Edward C.
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Introduction. The article analyzes semantic components and variants of the Kalmyk color term хар ‘black’ in folklore texts. Goals. The study investigates semantics of the color term хар ‘black’ in a linguocultural perspective. Materials.
Aleksandra T. Bayanova
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Ulus of the Dondokovs in Early Years of Viceroy Ubashi’s Reign
Introduction. The article deals with the earliest years of the young Kalmyk Viceroy Ubashi’s reign. Goals. The paper attempts an analysis of the Dondukovs’ arrival in Kalmyk Steppe during the mentioned period. Results.
Alexander V. Tsyuryumov
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The paper reviews the “Dictionary of Place Names of the Republic of Kalmykia” compiled by scientists of the Kalmyk State University and published in 2019. It is primarily focused on toponyms collected during the expeditions of 2013–2017 but also includes
Tamara G. Basangova
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