Бюллетень Калмыцкого научного центра Российской академии наук
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2587-6503 |
| Wikidata | Q96734721 |
| OpenAlex | S4210181066 |
| MAG | 4210181066 |
| Total publications | 168 |
| Coverage period | 2019 - 2025 |
| Country | RU |
| Cited by | 1 |
| Impact factor | 0.025 |
| h-index | 1 |
As the "Bulletin of the Kalmyk Scientific Center," this venue likely publishes research on the history, culture, and ethnography of the Kalmyk region and its people. Such content, particularly ethnographic or historical studies of specific cultural groups, is highly relevant to social anthropology and ethnohistory
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Eurasian Exchange Networks · European Linguistics and Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Impulse Buying and Technology Impacts
Участие калмыков в Русско-турецкой войне 1735–1739 гг
Introduction. This article examines the historiographical aspect of the participation of the Kalmyk troops in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739. The study covers the pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary periods. The aim of the work is to analyze the main trends in studying the role of the Kalmyk troops in the war and to identify the specifics of the research approaches to this problem in different historical periods. Results. The research…
Археологические раскопки кургана 12 курганного могильника «Гашунский» на территории г. Элисты Республики Калмыкия
Introduction. In 2024–2025, the archaeological expedition of the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted archaeological research on the northeastern outskirts of the city of Elista in the Republic of Kalmykia (excavation of Mound 12 as part of the identified archaeological heritage site “Gashunsky Mound Cemetery” (9 mounds). The purpose of this article is to describe the results of archaeological excavations of the a…
Легендарные повествования о бодхисаттве Авалокитешваре (К сравнению сюжетов 1-й части «Мани-камбума» и «Сутры о мудрости и глупости»)
Introduction. This publication presents the results of a textual comparison of two well-known works: the “Mani-kambum” and the Sutra of the Wise and the Fool (or Zanlundo). The “Mani-kambum” is a collection of texts attributed to the Tibetan king Srontsang-gampo (7th century) dedicated to the cult of the Bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara. When analyzing the composition and content of the first section of the “Mani-kambum”, which include…
Материалы по истории буддийского духовенства Калмыцкой степи XIX – начала XX вв. в фондах Государственного архива Астраханской области
Introduction. This article presents the results of a study of the collections of the State Archives of the Astrakhan Region on the history of the Buddhist tradition of the Kalmyk people in the 19th – early 20th centuries. It also lists the most significant files related to the history of the Buddhist clergy of the Kalmyk steppe and analyzes their contents. Materials and Methods. The study utilizes historical-typological, historical-systematic, an…
Судебные гражданские дела Ламайского духовного правления о правах женщин-калмычек (1834–1848)
Introduction. The Lamai Spiritual Administration (1836–1847) was responsible for handling civil court cases, primarily related to family and marriage matters, such as marriage, abduction of girls, remarriage of widows, and other cases. The study focuses on the types of documents created during the court proceedings and their role in the administrative process of the mid-19th century. Studying the content of the documents will allow us to learn ab…
Остеометрическая характеристика населения ямной культуры по материалам археологических раскопок на территории Республики Калмыкия 1976–2002 гг
This paper presents the results of the analysis of the bone remains from the Yamnaya culture population (Early Bronze Age), obtained from the study of the burial mounds in the Republic of Kalmykia in the period from 1976 to 2002. According to craniological data, the population inhabiting the Lower Volga region during the Early Bronze Age belonged to the proto-Europoid type, characterized by a sharply profiled face and a strongly protruding nose. …
Совместный труд калмыцких и тувинских ученых. Рец. на кн
The review examines the Catalog of Buddhist Manuscripts and Woodcuts in Tibetan and Mongolian published in 2024 by the Tuvan Institute of Humanitarian and Applied Socio-Economic Research, carried out in the cooperation between two scientific institutions — the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Tuvan Institute of Humanitarian and Applied Socio-Economic Research. The publication of the catalog from the Foundation o…
Историческое сознание современного российского общества (опыт социологического измерения). Рец. на кн
The review examines the collective monograph “The Arrow of Time” in the mass consciousness of Russians: assessments of the past, judgments about the present, ideas about the future”, issued by the publishing house “The Whole World” in 2024. The publication of this collective monograph is timed to coincide with an important milestone date — the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which was celebrated on February 8, 2024. The auth…
Демографическое развитие Дальнего Востока России (XVII–XX вв.)
The development of the Far East began in the 17th century with the expeditions of the Cossacks, who founded prisons, which became control centers. However, the population growth was held back by the harsh climate, gender imbalance, and conflicts with local tribes. In the 19th century, systemic measures (military colonization, peasant resettlement, sea transportation) contributed to the increase in the population, although by the beginning of the …
Рецензия на коллективную монографию «Жизненный мир работников
This review article is entirely devoted to analyzing and comprehending the key points and ideas raised in the framework of the new collective monograph “The Life World of Workers: Sustainability versus Precarity”, published by the well-known publishing house “The Whole World” in our country, edited by Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Zh. T. Toshchenko. This collective monograph presents the positive and negative aspects inh…
Documents of the Horde Branch of the Astrakhan Chamber of State Property as a Source
Introduction. The archive fund No. I-6 “Horde branch of the Astrakhan Chamber of State Property” (1848–1881) of the National Archive of the Republic of Kalmykia consists of 10 files containing information on the activities of the Temporary Construction Commission for the construction of houses in the villages. From various types of documents, you can learn about the problems that arise during the construction of houses and their solutions, about …
The “Kalmyk” Collection of the Saratov Museum of Local History in the Context of Anti-Religious Propaganda
The religious policy of the Soviet state in the first third of the 20th century was aimed at destroying the influence of religion and the authority of the clergy on society. As part of the ideological rivalry with confessions, temples, each of which was an architectural monument, and objects of worship, which were the result of the creative activity of the masters of the past centuries, were destroyed. The article is devoted to the so-called “Kal…
To the Problem of Tibetan Texts from Tuvan Archives Related to Zaya pandita. Part 1
This study has two parts, the first being presented in the paper. Here we consider five Tibetan-language manuscripts from the collections of the Tuvan Institute of Humanities and Applied Socio-Economic Research under the Government of the Republic of Tuva, in which colophons the name of Zaya-Pandita is mentioned. The first in this succession of reincarnations, including eight embodiments, was the renowned Buddhist scholar and translator Zaya pand…
Peter the Great’s Decrees and Letters to Khan Ayuka as Sources on the History of Russian-Kalmyk Relations
Introduction. Studying the history of any nation is unthinkable without an appropriate analysis of historical sources. The funds of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts and the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire contain a significant number of documents from the era of Peter the Great. We are particularly interested in materials related to the history of Russian-Kalmyk relations, specifically decrees, diplomas, and letters f…
Sources on Archaeological Sites Studied in the Republic of Kalmykia (1929–2019)
Introduction. The key factor in the study of sources on the research of archaeological sites is the maximum integrity and accessibility of a set of sources on the research carried out, both individual monuments and the monuments belonging to different eras. The purpose of the article is to describe the work on the creation of a set of sources on archaeological sites explored in the Republic of Kalmykia in 1929–2019. Results. The work on the creat…
Resource Availability of Russian University Teachers in the Context of the Implementation of Managerialism Policy
The article analyses the resource availability of the Russian university teachers in the conditions of managerialism policy implementation. Managerialism requires from the teaching community active professional activity on the widest range of employment. It is conditioned by the assertion of the values of inter-university competition, implemented through the tools of commercialization of science and education. In this competitive opposition, the …
New Written Novel’s Architectonics
Introduction. The structural and substantive components of the novel and its transformations are analyzed in the article. Research methods: historical-typological, structural-descriptive, comparative-contrastive, narrative, biographical, hermeneutic. Results. The formation of a new matrix of the cultural state in the first decades of the Soviet reality determined a special form of large-format prose, the attributive feature of which can be consid…
On Infant Mortality in Southern Russian Regions
The article examines some indicators of the population’s availability of health resources and their impact on infant mortality rates in the Republic of Kalmykia and its neighboring regions. Materials and methods. The information base of the study was made up of general infant mortality rates in Russia and in the federal districts, in the Republic of Kalmykia and in the group of analyzed regions — in the Astrakhan, Volgograd, Rostov regions, the R…
“Memoir Novel” by E. Grishkovetz in Terms of Poetics of “Autofiction”
The purpose of the article is to define poetics and genre peculiarities of the memoir novel “Theater of Despair. Desperate Theater” by E. V. Grishkovetz. Results. The synthetic and even oxymoronic nature of the genre (memoirs assume the reality of what is described, “it did happen”, while novel is a work of fiction) poses specific aesthetic tasks and problematizes the author – hero – reader relationship again. Grishkovetz’s memoir novel is an exa…
The Material World in the Dramatic Reception of V. S. Rozov
The dramaturgy of the Soviet period has been sufficiently studied both from the point of view of the specifics of the artistic system and in terms of its ideological and thematic content. The work of V. S. Rozov, who updated the traditional genre of Russian realistic psychological drama, reflects the main problems of the contemporary era of the author and his person, who is in the dialectical process of searching for his own moral principles and …
Poetics of Things in Kalmyk Tales about Animals
The article examines the poetics of things in Kalmyk fairy tales about animals. The research material included both published and unpublished texts of Kalmyk fairy tales about animals in the original and translated into Russian, as well as legends and traditions. Despite the fact that when studying Kalmyk fairy tales about animals related to the genre, plot, composition, system of characters, and linguistic means, researchers touched upon such ma…
The Material Environment as a Means of Forming Psychologism in L. N. Tolstoy’s Novel “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
The article examines the specifics of the material environment in the story by L. N. Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” as one of the ways of forming psychologism. The artistic world of the work, saturated with material details, on the one hand, characterizes the inner world of the hero, on the other hand, it becomes an active participant in the action, ultimately causing the death of Ivan Ilyich. The story presents a specific image of a house-gr…
The Potential of Modeling the World in the Poetics of the Objectivity of N. S. Leskov’s Prose 1864–1866
The purpose of the article is to identify the structurality of the writer’s artistic language in connection with the philosophical and aesthetic position by analyzing the poetics of the material world of Leskov’s early prose. Results: already in Leskov’s early prose, the material world acts as the most important way of modeling the artistic world. The writer tends to two main methods of depicting the subject series — stringing and animating. Anot…
Dombra in Kalmyk folklore and Lyrics of the 20th – early 21st centuries
The relevance and novelty of the article is determined by the fact that the poetics of a musical instrument was not the object and subject of research in Kalmyk folklore and poetry. Among the national musical instruments, the dombra retains its functionality at the present stage. The study of dombra as a thing and as a musical instrument in the translation of folk culture and art is of interest in a historical-functional, comparative-comparative …
The Poetics of the Thing in M. Duras’s L’Amante Anglaise
The paper considers the structural and functional specifics of the portrayal of things in the novel “La menthe anglaise” by M. Duras. In the framework of the analysis it is stated that the traditional for criminal plot function of a thing as a clue is absorbed here by another, less obvious and related to the search for the “right question” about the true reason of the murder. The “getting rid” of things as traces of their presence in the everyday…
Three Seals of Khan Ayuka
Introduction. Recent years have witnessed some publications of letters signed by Kalmyk Khans, nobility, and containing samples of Kalmyk sphragistics. The seals are of great interest for Kalmyk historical political studies and have never been explored before. It has skipped the attention of researchers that Kalmyk Khan Ayuka used a total of three different seals to ratify his correspondence — in different periods of his reign. Goals. The study a…
Exploring of Tibetan-Language Texts
Introduction. This article is the result of a research project to create a corpus of the Tibetan language based on the measurement of the lexical composition of 600 Tibetological works published over the past 40 years. The language corpus of this article consists of 642 articles in Tibetan from 25 Tibetan journals published from 1978 to 2018. Goals. This work introduces a classification words, division into parts of speech, uses statistical data …
Woman as Head of Incomplete Family in Modern Russian Society
Introduction. Large-scale sociocultural transformations of the late 20th – early 21st centuries affected the life of Russian family. The period witnesses the shaping of the so-called post-nuclear family characterized by the blurring of parental statuses and roles resulting, in particular, from the spread of incomplete families. Goals. According to official data, in Russian society, as a rule, incomplete family with a child (children) is headed by…
Archaeological Burial Monuments of the Volga-Manych Steppe
Introduction. The work continues the Collection (Corpus) of archaeological monuments to have published data on sites excavated between 1929 and 1997 inclusive. Goals. The paper introduces further data on burial sites investigated from 1998 to 2009 in the Volga-Manych steppe, the latter largely matching the borders of Kalmykia. Materials and Methods. The review focuses on burial monuments only, and data on excavated habitats (settlements and hillf…
Cultural Heritage of Turks in Mongolia and Its Protection
Introduction. Central Asia is a cradle of nomads. Since the territory of Mongolia hosts numerous monuments of nomads of all times, most researchers unanimously noted that Mongolia could be viewed as a hotbed of nomads. Goals. This study focuses on the preservation of historical monuments dated to the Turkic period. Results. These monuments include those of written cultures, burials, stone sculptures, and mounds. These historical monuments are und…
Tuvan Ethnicity as an Object of Research
Introduction. This article attempts to review and analyze domestic and foreign scientific works on the history of the study of Tuvan ethnicity covering such aspects as language, religion, traditional spiritual culture, material culture of the people, national character, history of Tuvan ethnicity, ethnic identity of Tuvans and other factors characterizing the Tuvan people as a unique ethnic group among the peoples of Central Asia. Goals. The arti…
Republic of Kalmykia
Introduction. The problem of educational migration among Kalmykia’s rural youth is grave enough. The former tends to further evolve into labor one and directly results in rural population decrease. The oppressive outflow of school leavers leads to losses of intellectual and demographic resources within the region. Goals. The study aims at analyzing different aspects of educational migration among rural youth and revealing specific features observ…
Natural Objects in the Ethnocultural Landscape
The article deals with toponymic stories and legends of the Oirat people inhabiting the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang. The work is based on the author’s field materials and some literary sources. Toponymic legends and tales belong to the genre of oral non-fictional prose. Those are stories about geographical objects and natural monuments of a particular area. The main feature of toponymic tales and legends is that they relia…
Ethnic Kalmyks That Lived in Mongolia during the Revolution of 1921
Introduction. The contacts between Mongolia and Kalmykia were intensive enough in the 1920s. In 1921, a group of Kalmyks arrived in Mongolia to further participate in the revolutionary events. So far there have been no essential doubts as for numbers of ethnic Kalmyks to have been involved into the revolutionary movement. There is available data on 130 Kalmyks the bulk of whom were serving in the Mongolian People’s Army and also functioned as tra…
Covid-19 Pandemic and Labor Migration of Kalmykia’s Rural Population
Introduction. The issue examined in the article is topical enough since it arises from the need to analyze actual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal labor migration processes among the population. The COVID-19 crisis has affected most sectors of the economy. The introduction of quarantine measures and non-working days led to a number of problems for labor migrants: loss of work, reduction in wages, change of employment, loss of a certai…
Gender Asymmetries of Modern Tuvan Family Revisited
Goals. The article attempts an analysis of gender asymmetries in Tuvan family in the context of Russian sociological studies of the family. Results. The study of gender aspects inherent to the sociodemographic development of the region identifies the current family gender-related transformation trends resulting from economic factors, primarily that of labor market and employment. The article presents a gender analysis of possible risks associated…
Memorial, Podvig Naroda, Pamyat Naroda
Introduction. The memory of the Great Patriotic War is preserved by all post-Soviet nations. In this war, virtually every family had a member lost, and his/her destiny often remained unknown. So, the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to create online combined databases. Goals. The paper considers the actual problems of digitization, systematization, law and technical implementation tackled by developers of the databases. Results. The three onli…
Satirical Legacy of Mikhail Khoninov
Introduction. The family archive of the Kalmyk writer Mikhail V. Khoninov (1919–1981) contains unpublished works of various genres, both in the original and in translations. The latter comprise his satirical heritage represented by fables, feuilletons, apologues, couplets, quatrains, etc. Goals. The article introduces into scientific circulation Russian translations of some unpublished satirical poems and a feuilleton of the poet which for variou…
Traditional Formulas of Yakut Folktales
Introduction. The article is the first to have examined texts of Yakut folktales recorded personally by A. A. Savvin during the Vilyuysk Expedition of 1938 and revealed some categories of traditional formulas. Goals. The work primarily aims to identify traditional formulas of Yakut folktales from the Vilyuysk group of uluses. Accordingly, the study shall systemize traditional verbal folktale constructs by all known categories of initial, medial a…
Kalmyks in the Campaign of 1736, Kuban Front
Introduction. The article examines newly discovered documents to further analyze the participation of Kalmyks in the Russo-Turkish war of 1735– 1739. Goals. The work introduces new data on the actual circumstances to have preceded the involvement of Kalmyk cavalry into the campaign of 1736 and describes their combat activities. Materials and methods. The paper focuses on documents from the National Archive of Kalmykia — and specifically the then …
Ethnicity Related Social Conflicts
Introduction. Contemporary Russian ethnic conflictology is characterized by conceptual ambiguity that somewhat hampers further scientific progress. This is explained by the multiplicity of concepts employed by various authors to denote conflicts arising between representatives of different ethnic groups. Goals. The article aims to identify such conceptual gaps and reviews potential solutions. Results. So, the paper examines a number of key concep…
Baga Dorbet Cycle of the Jangar. The Song of How Bogdo Jangar Defeated Mangas Utu Tsagan and The Song of How Bogdo Jangar Defeated the Mangas Khan Kürül Erdeni
Introduction. The article studies plot formation patterns in The Song of How Bogdo Jangar Defeated Mangas Utu Tsagan and The Song of How Bogdo Jangar Defeated the Mangas Khan Kürül Erdeni included in the Baga Dorbet cycle of the Jangar (early narratives recorded in 1862). Materials. The work explores original Clear Script texts of the songs kept at the Manuscript Department of St. Petersburg University Library under the title ‘(Handwritten Record…
Orthodox Christian Mission in Kalmyk Steppe, Early 20th Century
Introduction. The Journal of Astrakhan Eparchy (Russ. Astrakhanskie eparkhialnye vedomosti) was the official periodical of Astrakhan and Yenotayevka Eparchy in 1875 to 1918. Quite a share of the published articles dealt with household life, customs, religion of the Kalmyks, and dissemination of Christianity in Kalmyk Steppe. Goals. The study aims to identify, analyze, investigate and introduce materials contained in journal issues and covering th…
Alexander N. Veselovsky and Scientific Controversy about Genesis of Heroic Epic
Introduction. The article analyzes attitudes of the outstanding Russian scholar Alexander N. Veselovsky (1838–1906) towards the scientific controversy to have arisen in the early 19th century around the theory of origin of heroic epic. Goals. The breadth of academic expertise and sophisticated methodologies made A. N. Veselovsky a recognized leading scientist of his era both in Russia and worldwide. Distinguished by spacious mind and fluency in m…
Craniological Materials at Kalmyk Scientific Center (RAS)
Goals. The article attempts a general review of craniological materials contained in the Anthropological and Archaeozoological Collection of Kalmyk Scientific Center (RAS). Results. The paper describes procedures employed for scientific registry of materials, outlines a structure of the original table titled ‘Craniological Materials’. The counting system defines the term ‘anthropological item’. There are additional insights into proportions of re…
To Mighty Lord Genghis Khan, the Son of Yesükhei, I Pray Nine Times
Introduction. Üres Sara, a holiday marking the beginning of summer, is one of traditional celebrations still observed among some Mongolic peoples, including Kalmyks. The celebration includes a whole range of ritual actions accompanied by recitation of special prayers. Goals. The paper introduces one such texts from the Don Kalmyk tradition that was recorded at the turn of the 20th century by Kalmyk folklore collector Ivan I. Popov to be further i…
Museum of Kalmyk Scientific Center (RAS)
Introduction. The Museum of Kalmyk Scientific Center (RAS) houses quite a number of sculptural and pictorial images associated with the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419; Tibetan Buddhist scholar to have founded the Gelug that gained widest distribution among Mongolic peoples) and delivered by different donators or from as various places. Goals. The articles analyzes several pieces of Buddhist art contained in the Museum’s collections and som…
The Song of Shara Mangas
Goals. The article introduces a Latin transliteration of one authentic Clear Script text of The Song of Shara Mangas included in the Oirat manuscript of the Jangar from the Golstunsky Collection. Materials. The original Clear Script document is kept at the Manuscript Department integral to the Library of Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg University. The main method employed is that of traditional transliteration. Results. Intro…
The Song of Shara Gürgü
Introduction. The article provides a comparative insight into two versions of The Song of Shara Gürgü [the Furious]: the first was recorded in 1862, and the second was heard in the mid-to-late 20th century. The Appendix publishes The Song of Shara Gürgü recorded by N. Ts Bitkeev, E. B. Ovalov, N. B. Sangadzhieva — then employees of Kalmyk Institute of Language, Literature and History (present-day KalmSC RAS) — on 24–25 August 1971 in the village …
Translation Problems of Minor Kalmyk Folklore Genres
Introduction. Proverbs and sayings are a genre of oral creativity that transmits the knowledge and experience of many generations. Paroemias are of practical importance for an individual as a member of society endowed with social roles and living by certain rules. The proverbs of the Don Kalmyks recorded by Ivan I. Popov also reflect the accumulated life experiences of previous generations, the wisdom of the people to have created them, their att…
Materials on Mongolic Visual Anthropology
Introduction. In 1923, Swiss filmmaker August Kern took motion pictures of Kalmyk settlements. Those were further used to compile an ethnographic film titled ‘Mysteries of Kalmyk Steppe. Glimpses of Kalmyk and Tatar Lifestyles’ (Fr. Les mystères de la steppe kalmouk. La vie des Tartars et des Kalmouks). Only one part of the film survived to the present but it does provide an extensive insight into the then life of Kalmyks. The newsreel depicts a …