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Medal Awarding Procedures for Smallpox Vaccination in Nineteenth-Century Kalmykia: Analyzing File No. 141 of Collection И-2 ‘Kalmyk Affairs Commission’ at the National Archive of Kalmykia

Oriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. The early-to-mid 19th-century Kalmyk Steppe witnessed certain changes in the system of governing the Kalmyk people that were to introduce the region into the unified agenda of Russia’s administrative and territorial structures.
Larisa B. Mandzhikova
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The Integration of the Kalmyks into the Legal System of the Russian Empire in the Late 18th and the First Half of the 19th Centuries. Translation from Russian

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
This article analyzes the specific features of the integration of the Kalmyk population into the legal system of the Russian Empire over the period from the late 18th to the first half of the 19th century. Following the abolition of Kalmyk statehood, the
Maria V. Chernik
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The Shaping of Autonomous Entities in the RSFSR, 1920s: Problems of Population and Territory (An Insight into Materials from Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast).

Oriental Studies, 2021
Introduction. Soviet Kalmykia’s historiography comprises quite a cluster of publications to have dealt with the shaping and development of the ethnic statehood. Such works primarily focus on preparatory and constitutive activities, economic beginnings.
Konstantin N. Maksimov
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The Concept of “Steppe” in the Novel-Chronicle by A. M.  Amur-Sanan “Mudreshka’s Son”

Монголоведение
Introduction. The article is devoted to the concept of “steppe”, which is important for the Kalmyks' worldview. The purpose of the article is to study the implementation of the concept of “steppe” in a literary text.
Galina B. Esenova
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Kalmyks in 1727 Negotiations on Sultan Bahti Giray of Kuban to Become Russia’s Protectorate

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The article scrutinizes the 1727 Kalmyk-Kuban contacts and — within the latter — the role of the rebellious Sultan Bahti Giray of Kuban to have dramatically destabilized the Russian-Ottoman steppe frontier.
Vladimir T. Tepkeev
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity

Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva, Abulgasim Ahbara, Imen Baazaoui, Slim Ben Jemaa, Yinhong Cao, Elena Ciani, Edgar Farai Dzomba, Linda Evans, Elisha Gootwine, Olivier Hanotte, Laura Harris, Meng‐Hua Li, Salvatore Mastrangelo, Ayao Missohou, Annelin Molotsi, Farai C. Muchadeyi, Joram M. Mwacharo, Gaëlle Tallet, Pascal Vernus, Stephen J. G. Hall, Johannes A. Lenstra   +20 more
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Party and Mass Media: Development of Party-Soviet Print Media in Kalmykia, 1920s–1930s

Монголоведение, 2020
Introduction. The paper provides insight into archival sources and shows the development of Kalmykia’s party-Soviet print media during the 1920s and 1930s.
Evgeniya V. Sartikova
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Institutionalization of the National Statehood of Kalmykia in the Form of Administrative Autonomy

Oriental Studies, 2018
Following the analysis of a wide range of sources - both published and newly discovered in the funds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia - the paper examines the final stage of Soviet ...
K. N. Maksimov, M. I. Matsakova
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The Earliest Years of Astrakhan Diocesan Committee, Orthodox Missionary Society of Russia: Analyzing Materials from the State Archive of Astrakhan Oblast

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The article analyzes and introduces into scientific discourse a set of archival documents included in Collection 597 — ‘Astrakhan Diocesan Committee of the Missionary Orthodox Society’ — of the State Archive of Astrakhan Oblast dealing with
Andrey A. Kurapov
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The psychological aspect of time dynamics in the Kalmyk thangka of the Green Tara

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2023
The article presents the author’s interpretation of the information space of the ancient Kalmyk tanka Green Tara, created for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, which was celebrated in the Bolshederbetovsky ulus in 1913. There is no doubt that
N. A. Bardaeva
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