scholarly journals Morphonological Phenomena in the Kalmyk Language of the 18th Century (Exemplified by the Documents of the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia)

Author(s):  
Danara Suseeva ◽  

The results of the analysis of morphonological phenomena in the words of the Kalmyk language of the 18 th century are presented in the article. The research material is comprised of the official business documents of the Kalmyk khans of the 18 th century and their contemporaries, written in the old Kalmyk language, called Todo bichig "clear letter", which were deposited in the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia (Fund 36, Inventory1). In Kalmyk linguistics, for the first time, information was obtained about the compatibility of morphemes of the Kalmyk language of the 18 th century and about morphonological phenomena caused by the processes of word- and form building. It was found out that at the junction of morphemes such morphonological phenomena as truncation, overlap, augmentation, alternation, interfixation, vowels lengthening often occurred, and within morphemes – the alternation of short and long vowels. It is revealed that the paradigms of root and subordinate morphemes of the 18 th -century Kalmyk language differ from similar paradigms of the modern language. The results obtained are important not only for understanding the historical grammar of the Kalmyk language, but also for the theoretical grammar of the modern Kalmyk language. The perspective of this study is that its results are the starting point for a new direction – the comparative study of morphemics and morphonological phenomena of related Mongolian languages belonging to the agglutinative type of languages. It becomes possible to compare and contrast not just their single identical root and affixal morphemes (the traditional approach), but also their morphemic paradigms, consisting of allomorphs and variants in both diachronic and synchronous aspects.

Author(s):  
Алексей Сергеевич Нилогов

В статье рассматривается вопрос документальной реконструкции родословной хакасского этнографа Степана Дмитриевича Майнагашева (1886–1920). До сих пор в биографии хакасского учёного С. Д. Майнагашева оставались белые пятна, включая точно не установленную дату его рождения. Несмотря на наличие родословных преданий о происхождении Майнагашевых, отсутствовала научная верификация этой генеалогической информации на материале церковных метрических книг, именных списков и ревизских сказок (переписей населения). Объектом исследования является биологическая родословная С. Д. Майнагашева, а предметом — архивно-документальная реконструкция её патрилинейной части. Источниковую базу составили фонды таких архивов, как: Государственный архив Красноярского края, Национальный архив Республики Хакасия, архив города Минусинска. Впервые в научный оборот вводятся уникальные архивные документы по генеалогии Майнагашевых: по Аскизской Петропавловской церкви — метрическая запись о рождении/крещении С. Д. Майнагашева за 1886 г., метрическая запись о бракосочетании/венчании его родителей Д. А. Майнагашева и В. Н. Кызыласовой за 1877 г., метрическая запись о смерти/погребении деда этнографа А. П. Майнагашева за 1866 г., по Таштыпской Христорождественской церкви — метрическая запись о рождении/крещении отца Д. А. Майнагашева за 1851 г.; сведения из трёх последних ревизий Казановского рода Сагайской степной думы за 1832, 1850 и 1858 гг.; данные о фактах крещения представителей рода на 1854 г. В ходе генеалогических изысканий проведена экспертиза семейной родословной Майнагашевых, составленной в 1970–1980-х гг. топографом М. Г. Мойнагашевым на основе устных преданий и архивных источников. Критический анализ этой генеалогической схемы показывает, что её информационный потенциал нуждается в тщательной научной верификации с привлечением церковных метрических записей и актов гражданского состояния. Дальнейшее изучение генеалогии Майнагашевых будет посвящено анализу родословных легенд, а также генетико-генеалогическому тестированию современных мужских потомков. The article deals with the issue of documentary reconstruction of the Khakass ethnographer Stepan Dmitrievich Mainagashev’s (1886–1920) genealogy. Until now, there have been gaps in biography of the Khakass scientist S. D. Mainagashev, including an unspecified date of his birth. Despite the presence of genealogical legends about the origin of the Mainagashevs, there was no scientific verification of this genealogical information on the material of church metric books, lists of names and census lists (population censuses). The object of the study is S. D. Mainagashev’s biological genealogy, and the subject is the archival and documentary reconstruction of its patrilineal part. The source base consisted of the funds from such archives as: State Archive of the Krasnoyarsk Region, National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia, Minusinsk Archive. For the first time, unique archival documents on the genealogy of the Mainagashevs are introduced into scientific circulation: from the Askiz Peter and Paul Church — a metric record of the birth/baptism of S. D. Mainagashev in 1886, a metric record of the marriage/wedding of his parents D. A. Mainagashev and V. N. Kyzylasova in 1877, a metric record of the death/burial of the grandfather, ethnographer A. P. Mainagashev in 1866, from the Tashtyp Nativity Church — a metric record of the birth/baptism of D. A. Mainagashev’s father in 1851; data from the last three censuses of the Kazanov family of the Sagai Steppe Duma in 1832, 1850, and 1858; data on the baptism facts of representatives of the family as of 1854. Within the genealogical research, we carried out an examination of the Mainagashevs’ family genealogy, compiled in the 1970s and 1980s by the topographer M. G. Moinagashev on the basis of oral traditions and archival sources. The critical analysis of this genealogical scheme shows that its informational potential needs careful scientific verification with the involvement of church metric records and civil status acts. The further study of the Mainagashevs' genealogy will be devoted to the analysis of genealogical legends, as well as genetic and genealogical testing of modern male descendants.


Author(s):  
Galina M. Yarmarkina ◽  

Introduction. Anthroponyms contain valuable insights into the history of ethnic language and culture. The historical aspect of anthroponymy needs further research to reconstruct a wider panorama of the ethnos-specific anthroponymic system. Goals. The article seeks to consider the anthroponymic elements of Khan Ayuka’s letters in comparison with parallel Russian translated equivalents of theirs. Comparison of the Kalmyk and Russian texts makes it possible to trace traditions of naming people in different ethnocultural societies, thus revealing materials for a Kalmyk 18th-century name list. Methods and Materials. The paper analyzes 1714 letters of the Kalmyk Khan Ayuka and their Russian translations (referred to 1714 as well) housed by the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia. The personal names considered identified through the use of the continuous sampling method. The main research methods employed are the descriptive and comparative ones, and that of contextual analysis. The analyzed texts contain not only Kalmyk anthroponyms but also ones borrowed from other languages, which resulted from socio-political contacts with different peoples and states. Along with Russian, there are Kazakh, Tatar, Khiva, Turkmen, and other anthroponyms. Still, the article focuses on Kalmyk anthroponymic elements. Conclusions. Anthroponymy of each ethnos in each era has its own characteristics. In this regard, the material contained in the official correspondence of Khan Ayuka restores part of the Kalmyk anthroponymic register typical for the 1700–1720s. Restoration of the name list in diachrony requires both original texts and their Russian translations be used, since anthroponyms mentioned in the original documents and translated texts complement each other, which may indicate regularity, reproducibility of such personal names.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1266-1273
Author(s):  
Svyatoslav V. Kulinok ◽  

The article offers a review of a new documents collection prepared by the staff of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus (NARB) and devoted to creation and first months in operation of the Belarusian headquarters of partisan movement (BHPM), the main military and political body that guided partisan movement on the territory of the BSSR. The collection includes 204 documents, 196 of them from the NARB fonds; most are being introduced into scientific use for the first time. The historiography on the history of partisan warfare on the territory of Belarus is quite diverse, and yet this collection is of great importance and significance. Firstly, a comprehensive study of the BHPM activities in the wartime is yet to be carried out by Belarusian or foreign historians. Secondly, the designated time period (September-December 1942) remains little-studied; documentary materials that have for a long time been classified are yet to be introduced into scientific use. Authors-compilers use the published documents to address various aspects of the BHPM activities in its most difficult days: recruitment of qualified personnel and personnel records, operational intelligence work, organization of communication and logistics of material supply in partisan formations, document management and document flow. The collection also contains documents of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (CHPM) and the partisan formations of the BSSR, which makes it possible to consider the activity of the BHPM not as an autonomous process, but as an interaction of the CHPM, the BHPM, and other partisan formations. It is important to introduce into the scientific use documents related to the activities of the subordinate BHPM structures: school for training personnel, mobile radio centre, Belarussian diversionary special operations brigade. One of the main documents on the history of the partisan warfare - ‘Plan for development of the partisan movement and actions of the BSSR partisan detachments in winter 1942/1943’ - is being published for the first time. Collection of documents and materials allows to re-evaluate various areas of activities of the BHPM and its subordinate structures in autumn-winter of 1942.


2020 ◽  
pp. 343-354
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Toropitsyn ◽  
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Danara A. Suseeva ◽  
Janat B. Kundakbayeva ◽  
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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of administrative and political work carried out by the Russian authorities in the border South-Eastern gubernias to settle differences between the Kalmyks and the Kazakhs in the mid-18th century. In the 1730s, a part of the Kazakh tribes entered into allegiance of Russia, but this did not eliminate all causes of their conflicts with other Russian subjects. The historiography has not paid much attention to relations between the frontier peoples. Published sources do not touch upon this topic; thus, many important facts related to the activities of the Kalmyk Commission (1741–1745) have been overlooked by the scholars. Documents from the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia permit to eliminate this gap in the historiography. They may be used in a comprehensive analysis of the Russo-Kalmyk-Kazakh relations in the mid-18th century. The article draws on them to describe measures taken in 1741–42 by the head of the Kalmyk Commission, Astrakhan Governor V.N. Tatishchev in order to promote peace between the Kalmyks and the Kazakhs. His correspondence with the Kazakh khans and starshinas, the governor of the Kalmyk Khanate, the office of the Orenburg Commission and the local administration is analyzed. It is noted that he was forced to tackle the issues of return of prisoners and of stolen livestock and prevention of raids. V.N. Tatishchev’s work for preparation of the Kalmyk-Kazakh peace congress is underscored. The article analyzes the behavior of the Kazakh nobility and concludes that the nobles were unwilling to attend the congress, preferring not to bind themselves with personal obligations. New documents are being introduced into the scientific use, that permit not only to clarify the nature of relations between the Kalmyks and the Kazakhs in the 1740s, but also to give an idea of the principles and mechanisms of diplomatic and administrative work of central and local authorities in promoting peaceful coexistence of different peoples within Russia.


Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Kyshpanakov ◽  

The goal of this study is to highlight the little known facts about scientific life of Kalmyk scholars — philologists Ts. D. Nominkhanov and I. K. Ilishkin, restoration of some significant episodes of their work conducted in 1944–1949 during the deportation of the Kalmyk people that fell on the last years of the Great Patriotic War and postwar period when the scholars were in exile in Khakass autonomous region. The study is based on the materials of the National Archive of the Republic of Khakassia funds, the manuscript fund of the Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History, the periodical press of that time, specifically the newspaper “Sovetskaya Khakassia”, the main print newspaper in the region. In the bibliographic database of the N. G. Domozhakov National Library all the newspapers for the given time period were analyzed by the method of continuous sampling and the articles written by Ts. D. Nominkhanov and also materials containing critical remarks against the scholars in the times of their persecution were selected. Photos from the personal archive of the regional ethnographer L. I. Belousova were also used for the article. The author emphasized the introduction of a lot of photos, decrees and extracts from Ts. D. Nominkhanov’s personal file. They are published for the first time. The given materials despite their limited quantity enable us to provide more information on the scientific life of Ts. D. Nominkhanov and I. K. Ilishkin during deportation, evaluate the scientific heritage that they left for further generations of students and scholars of Khakassia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
D. A. Dirin ◽  
Paul Fryer

The paper is devoted to ethno-cultural landscapes of the Republic of Tuva. Ethnocultural landscapes (ECLs) are specific socio-environmental systems that developed as a result of the interaction of ethnic groups with their natural and social environments and are in a constant process of transformation. An attempt is made to identify the mechanisms of the formation, functioning and dynamics of ethnocultural landscapes in the specific conditions of the intracontinental cross-border mountain region, as well as to establish the main factors-catalysts of their modern changes. For the first time an attempt is made to delimit and map the ethnocultural landscapes of Tuva. For this, literary sources, statistical data and thematic maps of different times are analyzed using geoinformation methods. The results of 2014-2018 field studies are also used, during which interviews with representatives of different ethno-territorial, gender, age and social groups were taken. It is revealed that the key factors of Tuva’s ethnocultural landscape genesis are the natural isolation of its territory; the features of its landscape structure; the role of government; population migrations from other regions and the cultural diffusion provoked by them. 13 ethnocultural landscapes are identified at the regional level. Their modern transformation is determined by the shift of climatic cycles, aridisation, globalisation of sociocultural processes, changes in economic specialisation and ethnopsychological stereotypes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mbuzeni Mathenjwa

The history of local government in South Africa dates back to a time during the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. With regard to the status of local government, the Union of South Africa Act placed local government under the jurisdiction of the provinces. The status of local government was not changed by the formation of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 because local government was placed under the further jurisdiction of the provinces. Local government was enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa arguably for the first time in 1993. Under the interim Constitution local government was rendered autonomous and empowered to regulate its affairs. Local government was further enshrined in the final Constitution of 1996, which commenced on 4 February 1997. The Constitution refers to local government together with the national and provincial governments as spheres of government which are distinctive, interdependent and interrelated. This article discusses the autonomy of local government under the 1996 Constitution. This it does by analysing case law on the evolution of the status of local government. The discussion on the powers and functions of local government explains the scheme by which government powers are allocated, where the 1996 Constitution distributes powers to the different spheres of government. Finally, a conclusion is drawn on the legal status of local government within the new constitutional dispensation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-348
Author(s):  
V. N. Tarasova ◽  
T. Ahti ◽  
O. Vitikainen ◽  
A. V. Sonina ◽  
L. Myllys

This is a report of a revision of 565 herbarium specimens of lichens, lichenicolous or non-lichenized fungi and additional locality records of common species produced from a visit of the Russian-Finnish expedition to Vodlozersky National Park right after its foundation in 1991. The analyzed collection and field records represent the earliest information about the lichen flora of the territory of the park. In total, 177 species are listed including 173 lichens, 3 non-lichenized and 1 lichenicolous fungi. Xylographa rubescens is new to the Republic of Karelia. Twenty two species are reported for the first time for biogeographic province Karelia transonegensis; 47 species for the Karelian part of Vodlozersky National Park; and 17 species for the whole territory of the park.


2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 322-327
Author(s):  
G. Ya. Doroshina ◽  
I. A. Nikolajev ◽  
Yu. V. Lavrinenko

Fissidens gracilifolius, Leptodontium flexifolium, Lindbergia dagestanica, Tortella bambergeri are recorded for the first time in the Republic of North Osetia — Alania. Rare species for the Republic are discussed: Fabronia ciliaris, F. pusilla, Lindbergia grandiretis, Tortula modica, Weissia wimmeriana, Zygodon rupestris.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Guskova

The article is devoted to the analysis of interethnic relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the 1940s and 1960s. The article is based on materials from the archives of BiH, Croatia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. The documents show the state of affairs in the Republic – both in the economy and in ideology. In one or another way, all of them reflect the level of tension in the interethnic relations. For the first time, the article presents the discussion on interethnic relations, on the new phenomenon in multinational Yugoslavia – the emergence of a new people in BiH under the name of “Muslim”. The term “Muslims” is used to define the ethnic identity of Bosniaks in the territory of BiH starting from the 1961 census.


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