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Vasily Tatishchev and Issues of Improving the Kalmyk People’s Economic Conditions
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. This article is devoted to the activities of Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev, when Astrakhan governor (1741–1745) responsible for the affairs of the Kalmyk steppes.
Maksim M. Batmaev +3 more
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The anguish of repatriation : immigration to Poland and integration of Polish descendants from Kazakhstan [PDF]
, 2014 Repatriation remains an unsolved problem of Polish migration policy. To date, it has taken place on a small scale, mostly outside of the state’s repatriation system.
Grzymała-Kazłowska, Aleksandra +1 more
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Kalmyk Identity in Historical Perspective
Caucasus Survey, 2022 Abstract The Kalmyks have lived in southwest Russia for about four centuries. Whilst cultural assimilation with neighbouring peoples has been an ongoing process since the Kalmyks first settled in the lower Volga from 1630, the twentieth century, which saw the rise and fall of several political regimes in Russia, was the most dramatic period in the ...
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Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук, 2021 Introduction. The matrices of Kalmyk seals, which are drawings and texts engraved on hard material (as well as their imprints on paper, sealing wax or other harder substances), have never been object of a special study. Kalmyk sphragistics, an auxiliary scholarly discipline that studies Kalmyk seals, takes its first steps with this article. At the same
Bembya Mitruev, Daria Gedeeva
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Kalmyk measures of length: ethnolinguistic aspect
Nomadic civilization: historical research, 2021 The article is devoted to the study of Kalmyk measures of length. Folk terms, in contrast to universal official state measures forming a correlated system of metrological units, are characterized by a close connection with specific occupations of the population (cattle breeding, fishing, crafts, etc.).
K. P. Batyreva +2 more
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Монголоведение, 2018 The article examines folk beliefs of the Kalmyks about somewhat sacral nature of the place where Donduk Dashi (popularly referred to as Balvatin Khan), the last Khan of the Kalmyks, was cremated in 1761; it narrates about presumed magic properties of ...
E. Bakaeva
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Russian Policy toward Kalmyks and Jungars during the Decline of the Jungar Khanate [PDF]
, 2014 departmental bulletin ...
6678, Chetyrova, L.
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Climate Change, Desertification, and Water Stress in Kalmykia [PDF]
, 2023 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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Borders in a Borderland: The Buryat‐Cossacks and the Buryat National Movement, 1917–21
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 403-421, July 2025.Abstract Between the February revolution and the 1921 end of the Russian Civil War, Buryat nationalists built a nation around Lake Baikal. Leaders sought Buryat autonomy within a postrevolutionary Russian polity. A lengthy border with Mongolia framed the region’s political geography and state‐builders competed for Buryat allegiances, compelling Buryat ...
Griffin B. Creech
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Involvement of the Kalmyk military formations in the suppression of the Bashkir uprising in 1755
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки, 2021 Background. Up to the present time, the Bashkir uprising of 1755–1756 continues to be considered in line with the colonial approach of “oppression – resistance”.
S.V. Dzhundzhuzov
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