Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
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| Institution: | Department of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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| Description: | The Kalmyks have a remarkable military history, which is bound inseparably with that of Russia. The movement of Oirat tribes, the ancestors of the Kalmyks, from Dzungaria to what is today Kalmykia was gradual, stretching out over half a century and involving military confrontations with various tribes on their way. In the first half of the 17th century by their first treaties with the Muscovites, the Kalmyk lords obliged to participate in Russia’s military campaigns and defend its territory. Following the integration of the Kalmyk territory with Russia and the subsequent abolishment of the Kalmyk Khanate (1630-1771), their military tradition was carried on by newly formed Kalmyk Cossack regiments, which were part of wider Cossack military communities of the Don, Ural, Astrakhan, Stavropol, Orenburg and others. The Kalmyk Cossacks lived separately from the rest of the Kalmyks until the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Having a hereditary right to serve in the Cossack regiments, Kalmyk Cossacks and their families had become not only sedentarised and bilingual but also developed their unique cultural practices and beliefs. Following the Bolshevik Revolution the Cossack regiments were disbanded across Russia only to be reinstated in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Today in Kalmykia there are around 30,000 registered Kalmyk Cossacks attached to 5 Cossack okrugs (districts).
Here you can watch videos, read essays and listen to stories about Kalmyk military history, military heroes, beliefs, rituals and many others. |
Media items
This collection contains 41 media items.
Media items
Anatoliy Kekeev, How to Develop the Kalmyk Nation
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Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 19 Mar 2018
Anatoliy Kekeev, The History of the Kalmyks
11 views
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 19 Mar 2018
Anatoliy Safinov, Gakhaev and Amursanan
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Anatoliy says that he heard from others that Gakhaev was from Iki Derbet ulus originally. When he was young he was sent to study in Stavropol’. In the past, gifted boys were sent...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 23 Aug 2017
Arltan Baskhaev, A Brief Military History of the Kalmyk
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The integration of the Oirat/Kalmyks with the Russian state commenced at the beginning of the 17th century. Prior to this, they lived in south Siberia and in the 1620s came to...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sat 20 Feb 2016
Arltan Baskhaev, Military Legends
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According to a legend about Chimid Baatr, he saved Russian prisoners from Nekrasov’s Cossacks who were intending to sell them as slaves in Crimea. After rescuing the Russians,...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sat 20 Feb 2016
Bembya Fedorov, About Chonkush Ovtsadykov
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Chonkush Ovtsadykov was born in 1876. He had two siblings. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05. During the war one day he was out scouting along with 11 other...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 30 Jan 2017
Bulgun Mankirova, Sanal Badmaev, The History of Kalmyks
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Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 17 Aug 2017
Erdni Manzhikov, About the Military History of the Kalmyks
19 views
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 8 Jan 2018
Ivan Ulyumdzhiev, About Various Ways of Using a Sword
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Ivan says that in the past Kalmyk soldiers knew many ways of cutting with a sword, including beheading and chopping the body into two (from the shoulder to the waist).
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 22 Oct 2017
Keemia Orlova, About Old Books and Texts in Kalmykia and Western Mongolia
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In 2005 Keemia published a brochure about manuscripts written in Oirat and Mongol scripts that are kept in the archives in Kalmykia. The Kalmyk scholar Delyash Muzraeva, who...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 26 Feb 2017
Khoshun-Bator Chudutov, About Amur-Sanan
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Khoshun-Bator talks about Amur-Sanan who was his grandfather’s friend.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 11 Apr 2019
Khoshun-Bator Chudutov, About Gakhaev
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Khoshun-Bator talks about Prince Gakhaev.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 11 Apr 2019
Khoshun-Bator Chudutov, About the Role of Kalmyks in the Formation of the Russian State
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Khoshun-Bator talks about the Kalmyks’ contribution to the strengthening of the Russian state.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 11 Apr 2019
Khoshun-Bator Chudutov, Why Did the Oirats Settle in the Volga?
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Khoshun-Bator talks about why the ancestors of the Kalmyks left Dzungaria and came to settle in the Lower Volga.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 11 Apr 2019
Khoshun-Bator Chudutov, Why Did Ubushi Khan Leave for Dzungaria?
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Khoshun-Bator shares his personal view about the real reason Ubushi Khan left the Kalmyk steppes for Dzungaria in 1771.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 11 Apr 2019
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, About National Idea or Ideology in Kalmykia
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Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 10 Jan 2018
Konstantin Naktanov, The History of Kalmyks
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Konstantin is a Torghut, of the Keryad clan. He was born in Lagan’, Kalmykia. He is a lawyer and a colonel in the police. He travelled to Mongolia and Xinjiang where he talked to...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 14 Jun 2016
Ksenia Konchieva, About Ubashi Khan and the 1771 Exodus
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After returning from Siberian exile in 1957, our elders decided to perform a ritual for the land of Ubashi Khan, the land where we live today. It was barren in the past, for...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 25 May 2015
Larisa Kandueva, A Poem about WW II
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Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 31 Dec 2019
Leonid Ochir-Goryaev, The Armor of a Kalmyk Cavalryman
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Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (HISTORY)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 23 May 2017