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PhD, Chief Assistant, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies and Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The 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).
The article analyzes views of Siberia on the part of Bulgarians from Bessarabia. From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, Bessarabia was a part of the Russian Empire; then, from 1945 to 1991, it was part of the USSR; and currently it is located on the territory of Ukraine and Moldova. Stories about migration to Siberia during the Stolypin reform of 1906 and at the time of de-kulakization in 1946, recorded from the older generation of Bessarabian Bulgarians born in the first half of the 20th century, reveal two opposing models of perception of Siberia — positive and negative. In the view of modern Bulgarians of Bessarabia, there is a significant influence of the second model on the first one.
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