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Full Professor (History), leading researcher, department of Ethnography, Institute of Archaeology
and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
This work is accomplished according to the plan of research schedule of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science Х.100.3.4 “Culture of Life Necessities and Environmental ManagementSeen through the Prism of World-view: Stability and Variability”.
This paper deals with the analysis of field and archival sources for the history of toponyms (place names), as well as related toponymic traditions of Russian peasants of Southern Siberia (basin of the Upper Ob’, Altay Mountains). Russian peasants carried out “settling of landscape” in two ways. Existing Turkic and Fenno-Ugric place names were converted and explained from the viewpoint of the Russian language. Russian names were assigned in accordance with national notions, world view and mentality. Giving new names to newly created settlements or nominating unknown natural objects, the Russian settlers have carefully preserved toponyms of indigenous origin up to the present day, so that they can serve as a of ethnographic source. The new material makes it possible to reveal the mechanisms of the creation of new place names as oikonyms, hydronyms, oronymsetc, based on mythical and everyday oral narratives, names and nicknames of persons who have left their mark in the collective memory. The existing corpus of names and toponymic legends about of the origin of place names indicates “striking roots” by Russian ethnic groups, who have formed own ethnic landscape system at unfamiliar territories.
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Kurilov V.N. (2002) Russkiy subetnos Zapadnoy Sibiri v seredine XIX v.: rasselenie i toponimiya [Russian Sub-Ethnos of Western Siberia in the Midst of the 19th Century: Settlement and Toponymy]. PhD Thesis (History). Novosibirsk, 2002. In Russian.
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