Valeria Kuchko
Biographic Data
| ID | 787827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valeria Kuchko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valeria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuchko |
| SIGNATURE | KUCHKO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ural Federal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7139-5738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kostroma Chrononyms Related to the Memory of Saints Significant for the Region
Статья посвящена составу костромских хрононимов, связанных с памятью значимых для Костромского края святых Русской православной церкви. Статья основана на полевых материалах, собранных Топонимической экспедицией Уральского университета за более чем 20 лет работы в Костромской области (с 2000-х гг. вплоть до настоящего времени). В материалах прослеживается наличие явных следов особого почитания святых XIV в. Авраамия Чухломского (Галичского) и Пах…
Kesariny
This article introduces into scholarly circulation the previously unrecorded term kesariny ‘yuletide maskers’, documented by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural Federal University in Chukhloma District, Kostroma Oblast during its field season in 2025. The word is found in a narrow area on the Vologda-Kostroma borderland and means primarily ‘yuletide maskers’, but also ‘participants in yuletide ritual outrages’, ‘maskers at a wedding’ and ‘characters…
Folk Calendar of the Kostroma Region. I
This publication presents a collection of materials on the chrononymy of the Kostroma Region from the 20th and 21st centuries. The field data were collected by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural University between 2003 and 2024. The corpus of chrononyms is large, containing over 5,100 entries. Due to its size, the calendar materials will be published in two parts, based on the traditional seasonal division of the calendar year: spring-summer and au…
Tradition of Using Urochlivye Kamni “Jinx Stones”in the Kologrivsky District of the Kostroma Region
The article presents the latest field materials of the Toponymic expedition of the Ural University to the Kologrivsky district of the Kostroma region, collected in July-August 2024 and concerning the practices of using small stones or mineraloids such as belemnites and fulgurites (qualified by folk tradition as stones) for magical and folk medical purposes. In addition to the Toponymic Expedition’s card index, the material was also extracted from…
Babchestvo in One Kostroma Area
The article focuses on the socio-cultural situation in the south of the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region, within the modern settlements Bolshoe Yurovo, Yurovo, Bolshye and Malye Rymy. A number of important social functions in the local community during the Soviet period (and some by today) were performed by older women — they are commonly called babushki/ molel’nye babushki. They were midwives, healers, participated in religious ritual…
Sociocultural Landscape of the Pomor Coast of the White Sea through the Lens of Collective Nicknames
This article is based on field data collected in September 2023 by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg). The research was conducted in several settlements along the Pomor coast of the White Sea in the Belomorsky District of Karelia, including Sumskiy Posad, Kolezhma, Lapino, and Belomorsk. The paper presents some of the expedition’s findings on how collective nicknames and related narratives reflect the region’s hist…
Chrononyms and Some Features of the Calendar Cycle of Makarevsky District, Kostroma Region
The article examines the local holiday tradition recorded in an area of the Upper Volga basin, namely in the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region. It particularly focuses on the linguistic representation of this tradition: chrononyms (holiday names), related proverbs, and chrononymic derivatives. The research is based on field materials collected by members of the Toponymic Expedition of the Ural Federal University during several field tri…
Tin in Russian traditional culture
The article deals with the history of tin usage in Russia. The most important fact about it is that tin was an imported metal which Russia did not produce commercially. Nevertheless, tin became an important item of domestic trade by the 17th century and was widely used by all classes of Russian society, including the peasantry. The main focus of the article is on the presence of tin and tin products in the Russian folk tradition. The article show…
How the Name of a Stone Warns About Deception
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The Phenomenon of Species Substitution in the Names of Minerals and Metals (A Case Study of the Names Including the Lexeme ‘Gold’)
The authors investigate the phenomenon of species substitution in official and unofficial names of stones, minerals and metals in the Russian language. Examples of species substitutions are the cases when the designation of a particular mineral (stone, metal) contains the name of a mineral or a metal of another type (class, category), e. g. the Ural emerald ‘demantoid’, the cat's gold ‘mica of golden colour’, pseudomalachite ‘water-phosphate of c…
Folk Chrononyms of the Lower Onega River Region
В центре внимания автора — узколокальная система названий праздников, отмечавшихся в Онежском районе Архангельской области (точнее — в районе нижнего течения р. Онега). Основные языковые и этнографические данные, представленные в статье, записаны сотрудниками Топонимической экспедиции УрФУ в полевом сезоне 2018 г., в ходе которого обнаружилось, что календарная лексика Нижнего Поонежья включает, помимо названий общерусских праздников традиционного…
Once More on the Etymology of the Russian Word Mazurik ‘Cheater’ (in Light of the Cultural and Linguistic Image of Mazur in Slavic Traditions)
The article proves the hypothesis of the origin of the Russian colloquial word mazurik as deriving from the name of the Polish ethnographic group mazury ‘Mazurs’—inhabitants of Mazovia (in central and south-eastern Poland) as well as immigrants from this area to other places, mainly in the north-east. This hypothesis had previously been stated in the literature, but it had not been demonstrated rigorously. The authors show that the word mazurik i…
Toponymic Legends and Historical Facts (Legends about Robbers in the Area of Vologda and Kostroma Regions Eastern Boundary)
Материалом для статьи служат топонимические предания о разбойниках, записанные Топонимической экспедицией Уральского университета на территории восточного Вологодско-Костромского пограничья. Зонами наиболее активного распространения преданий являются Вохомский район Костромской области и Н икольский район Вологодской области. Внутри каждой крупной зоны выделяются очаги, в которых названия, включаемые в топонимические предания, представлены наибол…
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Toponymic Legends and Historical Facts (Legends about Robbers in the Area of Vologda and Kostroma Regions Eastern Boundary)
Материалом для статьи служат топонимические предания о разбойниках, записанные Топонимической экспедицией Уральского университета на территории восточного Вологодско-Костромского пограничья. Зонами наиболее активного распространения преданий являются Вохомский район Костромской области и Н икольский район Вологодской области. Внутри каждой крупной зоны выделяются очаги, в которых названия, включаемые в топонимические предания, представлены наибол…
Once More on the Etymology of the Russian Word Mazurik ‘Cheater’ (in Light of the Cultural and Linguistic Image of Mazur in Slavic Traditions)
The article proves the hypothesis of the origin of the Russian colloquial word mazurik as deriving from the name of the Polish ethnographic group mazury ‘Mazurs’—inhabitants of Mazovia (in central and south-eastern Poland) as well as immigrants from this area to other places, mainly in the north-east. This hypothesis had previously been stated in the literature, but it had not been demonstrated rigorously. The authors show that the word mazurik i…
Folk Chrononyms of the Lower Onega River Region
В центре внимания автора — узколокальная система названий праздников, отмечавшихся в Онежском районе Архангельской области (точнее — в районе нижнего течения р. Онега). Основные языковые и этнографические данные, представленные в статье, записаны сотрудниками Топонимической экспедиции УрФУ в полевом сезоне 2018 г., в ходе которого обнаружилось, что календарная лексика Нижнего Поонежья включает, помимо названий общерусских праздников традиционного…
The Phenomenon of Species Substitution in the Names of Minerals and Metals (A Case Study of the Names Including the Lexeme ‘Gold’)
The authors investigate the phenomenon of species substitution in official and unofficial names of stones, minerals and metals in the Russian language. Examples of species substitutions are the cases when the designation of a particular mineral (stone, metal) contains the name of a mineral or a metal of another type (class, category), e. g. the Ural emerald ‘demantoid’, the cat's gold ‘mica of golden colour’, pseudomalachite ‘water-phosphate of c…
Tin in Russian traditional culture
The article deals with the history of tin usage in Russia. The most important fact about it is that tin was an imported metal which Russia did not produce commercially. Nevertheless, tin became an important item of domestic trade by the 17th century and was widely used by all classes of Russian society, including the peasantry. The main focus of the article is on the presence of tin and tin products in the Russian folk tradition. The article show…
How the Name of a Stone Warns About Deception
(, , , , , , , ). , , ( ) - , . , , - . . , ( , ) ( , , , , )
Chrononyms and Some Features of the Calendar Cycle of Makarevsky District, Kostroma Region
The article examines the local holiday tradition recorded in an area of the Upper Volga basin, namely in the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region. It particularly focuses on the linguistic representation of this tradition: chrononyms (holiday names), related proverbs, and chrononymic derivatives. The research is based on field materials collected by members of the Toponymic Expedition of the Ural Federal University during several field tri…
Tradition of Using Urochlivye Kamni “Jinx Stones”in the Kologrivsky District of the Kostroma Region
The article presents the latest field materials of the Toponymic expedition of the Ural University to the Kologrivsky district of the Kostroma region, collected in July-August 2024 and concerning the practices of using small stones or mineraloids such as belemnites and fulgurites (qualified by folk tradition as stones) for magical and folk medical purposes. In addition to the Toponymic Expedition’s card index, the material was also extracted from…
Babchestvo in One Kostroma Area
The article focuses on the socio-cultural situation in the south of the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region, within the modern settlements Bolshoe Yurovo, Yurovo, Bolshye and Malye Rymy. A number of important social functions in the local community during the Soviet period (and some by today) were performed by older women — they are commonly called babushki/ molel’nye babushki. They were midwives, healers, participated in religious ritual…
Sociocultural Landscape of the Pomor Coast of the White Sea through the Lens of Collective Nicknames
This article is based on field data collected in September 2023 by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg). The research was conducted in several settlements along the Pomor coast of the White Sea in the Belomorsky District of Karelia, including Sumskiy Posad, Kolezhma, Lapino, and Belomorsk. The paper presents some of the expedition’s findings on how collective nicknames and related narratives reflect the region’s hist…
Kostroma Chrononyms Related to the Memory of Saints Significant for the Region
Статья посвящена составу костромских хрононимов, связанных с памятью значимых для Костромского края святых Русской православной церкви. Статья основана на полевых материалах, собранных Топонимической экспедицией Уральского университета за более чем 20 лет работы в Костромской области (с 2000-х гг. вплоть до настоящего времени). В материалах прослеживается наличие явных следов особого почитания святых XIV в. Авраамия Чухломского (Галичского) и Пах…
Kesariny
This article introduces into scholarly circulation the previously unrecorded term kesariny ‘yuletide maskers’, documented by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural Federal University in Chukhloma District, Kostroma Oblast during its field season in 2025. The word is found in a narrow area on the Vologda-Kostroma borderland and means primarily ‘yuletide maskers’, but also ‘participants in yuletide ritual outrages’, ‘maskers at a wedding’ and ‘characters…
Folk Calendar of the Kostroma Region. I
This publication presents a collection of materials on the chrononymy of the Kostroma Region from the 20th and 21st centuries. The field data were collected by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural University between 2003 and 2024. The corpus of chrononyms is large, containing over 5,100 entries. Due to its size, the calendar materials will be published in two parts, based on the traditional seasonal division of the calendar year: spring-summer and au…
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