The paper is devoted to the issues of participating of Kalmyks with Don Cossacks and regular armies in wars of Russia in the fi rst quarter of XVIII century when Peter I sorted out the problems of consolidation of state positions on the western and southern boundaries.

The author of this article gives the review of ethnic history of Oyrats of the western Mongolia and northwest China in second half of the XVIII century. The author analyses their number and outlines the basic areas of settling in this period which is known by all considerable political and historical changes (a liquidation of Dzunghar khanate, suppression of Oirats revolt and others).

The article is devoted to development of Kalmyk autonomous region as a part of Stavropol region in 1957-1958: in the period since the beginning of the restoration of an autonomy of the Kalmyk people and till the transformation into independent region as a part of RSFSR.

The article examines the changes of the offi cial name of the Republic of Kalmykia in the 90-s of the XXth century. The author studies the right of the subject of the Russian Federation to decide an issue about its name.

The article deals with events in Yakutia in the beginning the XXth century during formation of the national democratic movement of the Sakha people. This movement has given the dynamism to the development of the socioeconomic and sociopolitical processes promoted the awakening of national consciousness of the people.

The author considers issues of patriotic education as basis of society consolidation. The author gives the analysis of activity of organ of power, public organizations, etc.

The author considers the different types of social identity of the Kalmyks and Koreans living in the Republic of Kalmykia. The analysis of material received as the result of sociological surveys revealed that the most demanded kinds of social identity among the Kalmyks, the title nation, and the Koreans living in Kalmykia are as follows: age, professional, ethnic and local.

The article is devoted to the anaysis of the historical experience of living of an ethnic group of the Mozhdok Kalmyks and the history of the formation and development in the end of the XVIIIth - beginning ХХth century. The author gives a description of the process of their new social, economic, political, legal and cultural space with maintenance of ethnic identity and devotion to the traditions.

This article is devoted to funeral rites of the Кalmyks conducted in the period of preparation of the deceased for burial which are based on traditional worldview and Buddhist practice. Besides, there were analyzed problems of transformation of funeral rites in the XIX - XXth centuries.

This article is dedicated to investigation of west-mongolian origins personal names in comparative study, revealing of peculiarities of function, which use in past and present in language.

The article is devoted to revealing peculiarities and defi nition of principles of classifi cation and nomination of the proper names in the Erendzhenovs prose. The analysis allows authors to draw a conclusion about originality of toponimikon of art text and of the worldview of the Kalmyks on the whole.

This article is devoted to the problems connected with the world view in the Kalmyk heroic epic «Dzangar». The author concludes that the symbolic of the mountain and the palace in the epic is connected with the notion of the center which is comparable in social hierarchy of epic society with the image of the heard of the Khanat.

In the article the b roaching Oirat songs distinctiveness is considered. The conducted analysis of texts being the rich spiritual heritage of the Oirats shows their genre and compositional peculiarities. At the present moment the ancient people tradition revealed in this type of folk has been paying researchers attention - linguists, folklorists, literary critics and others.

The article is devoted to the Bashkir national legends and some archival sources which show the close contacts of the Bashkirs and Kalmyks.

The article deals with the typological transformations of fairytale motif about a wise girl (a daughterin- law or a daughter), received the wide circulation in Оirats fairytale folklore. By comparison of various fairytales the author uses already known materials and her own fi eld records. In the course of the analysis it has been revealed that one of essential elements of such plot is the motif of a diffi cult problem, connected with a number of other motifs which form compositional peculiarities of different variations of fairytale and heroines art character

This article analyzes the content of the Bagatsohurovsky cycles original songs, which revealed a complete set of existing motifs from different plot narratives. There were found out from analysis of motif fund that in the song «About victory of the renowned khan Dzhangar over the ferocious Kharа Kines» there were the largest amount of different motifs which are necessary to research for comparative and diachronic analysis.

The article is devoted to the analysis of economic in the agriculture of Republic of Kalmykia in 1985- 2000. The author reveals the reason of changing of livestock in different years of transitional period.

The article is devoted to study of different paradigms dominated in 20th century: V. V. Dokuchaevs, W. Cattons and R. Danleps paradigms and others. The multifactoral analysis of ecosystematical and anthropogenic impact on natural and social environment is examined by the author on the example of desertifi cation of territories of Kalmykia.

В 2010 г. исполнилось 100 лет со времени издания десяти песен «Джангара», записанных у джангарчи Ээлян Овла (1857-1920). Песни зафиксировал и подготовил к изданию студент четвертого курса Санкт-Петербургского университета Номто Очиров, ученик известного востоковеда профессора В. Л. Котвича. Труд Номто Очирова был высоко оценен В. Л. Котвичем, который впоследствии в статье «Джангариада и джангарчи» отмечал: «Открытие новых песен «Джангара» произвело немалую сенсацию в научных кругах столицы. Особенно важно то, что на этот раз удалось записать целый цикл песен, представляющих собой органическое целое, в то время как раньше исследователи имели дело с отдельными песнями» [1, c. 197-198].