https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7068-0708
E-mail: marina_klyaus@mail.ru Tel.: +7 (495) 938-17-44
32a, Leninskii ave., Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation
PhD in History, Researcher, N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Galin Georgiev
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-6407
E-mail: etnologia@mail.bg Tel.: +359 (87) 912-43-35
6a, Moskovska str., Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
PhD, Chief Assistant, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies and Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
M. P. Klyaus’s research is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 19–59–18003 “Bulgarians of the Urals and Siberia in the 20th — 21st Centuries: History, Culture, Identity.”
G. Georgiev’s research is supported by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, the Bulgarian Academy of Science, project KP‑06-RUSIA‑2/27.09.2019 “Bulgarians of the Urals and Siberia in the 20th — 21st Centuries: History, Culture, Identity,” in the framework of bilateral cooperation between Bulgaria and Russia (2018–2019).
This article examines the ideas of the Bulgarian population of the Tyumen Region about its ethnic identity and proposes models of self-identification among Russian Bulgarians. Interviews with Bulgarians from Tyumen and Nizhnevartovsk were the source base. A qualitative analysis of the interviews revealed the problem of ethnic self-identification of the offspring of interethnic marriages; specifics of respondents’ experience in choosing ethnicity; and the nature of interethnic interaction in everyday life, including linguistic and cultural interaction. The article also considers public organizations of Bulgarians, social platforms and virtual ethnic groups. The authors conclude that the Bulgarians living in the Tyumen Region, despite their small number and geographic dispersion, retain their ethnic identity, successfully integrating into the socio-economic, political and cultural space of this West Siberian region.
Chernykh A. V., Kamenskikh M. S., Khristov P. P. (2020) Bolgary v regionakh Urala v 1920– 1930-e gg.: formirovanie i razvitie etnodispersnoi gruppy [Bulgarians in Regions of the Urals in the 1920s‑1930s: Formation and Development of an Ethnically Dispersed Group]. Voprosy istorii [Questions of History]. 2020. No. 10–1. Pp. 187– 198. In Russain.
Chernykh A. V., Klyaus V. L., Klyaus M. P., Kamenskikh M. S. (2020) Bolgarskoe soobshchestvo Permskogo kraya: formirovanie, rasselenie, chislennost’ [The Bulgarian Community of Perm Territory: Formation, Settlement, Size]. Vestnik Permskogo federal’nogo issledovatel’skogo tsentra UrO RAN [Perm Federal Research Centre Journal]. 2020. No. 1. Pp. 88–96. In Russain.
Kamenskikh M. S. (2020) Sovetsko-bolgarskoe vzaimodeistvie v Prikam’e v 1950-e gody [Soviet-Bulgarian Interaction in the Kama Region in the 1950s]. Vestnik Permskogo federal’nogo issledovatel’skogo tsentra UrO RAN [Perm Federal Research Centre Journal]. 2020. No. 3. Pp. 80–84. In Russain.
Mandzhukova R. (2006) Besarabskata diaspora v Rusiya — trudnosti na izsledvaneto i v’zmozhni metodiki [The Bessarabian Diaspora in Russia — Difficulties of Research and Possible Methods]. In: B’lgarite v Severnoto Prichernomorie. Izsledovaniya i materiali [Bulgarians on the Northern Black Sea Coast: Research and Materials]. Vol. 9. Odessa: Druk. Pp. 129–136. In Bulgarian.
Sredkova S. (2018) Trudovi praktiki v’v vsekidnevieto na besarabskite b’lgari [Labor Practices in Everyday Life of Bessarabian Bulgarians]. Antropologiya [Anthropology]. 2018. No. 5. Pp. 142–155. In Bulgarian.
Klyaus M. P., Georgiev G. Models of Self-Identification of Russian Bulgarians in Siberia: The Example of the Bulgarians of the Tyumen Region. Traditional Culture. 2021. Vol. 22. No. 2. Pp. 111–121. In Russian.