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PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, Kalmyk Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
The research was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 20–012–00287, “Unpublished Kalmyk Folklore from I. I. Popov’s Archive.”
The study of Kalmyk folklore has a two-century history, but despite this, there is still unpublished material by Kalmyks stored in the archives of the Russian Federation. The State Archive of the Rostov Region has a collection of folklore works recorded by the horse breeder and amateur ethnographer I. I. Popov. Seven of his handwritten notebook books contain fairy tales, epic songs, legends, riddles, proverbs, and translations of religious writings. They have a common structure: title, table of contents, preface, folklore samples in “clear writing,” transcription in Cyrillic (with additional signs to indicate the sounds of the Kalmyk language, long and unclear vowels), translation into Russian, commentary. In the notes, along with the interpretation of individual lexemes, descriptions of individual rituals, and archaic notions from the pre-Buddhist period are also given. The introduction of this collection into scholarly circulation will expand our understanding of the folk art of the Kalmyks of Russia and will serve as an additional source for typological studies of the folklore of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples.
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