Vol 5, No 4 (2012)
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HISTORY
7-12 305
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The article is devoted to the description of life of the “trading people” from Chechens who were moved to the Tersky town at the end of the 16th century. They became the state servicing people, for what they received the salary. Besides of the service and agriculture, they actively were engaged in trade.
13-18 290
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The article is dedicated to the planned cattle delivery to the Russian army during the First World War in the Kalmyk steppe of the Astrakhan gubernia and in the Bolshederbetovsky ulus of the Stavropol province. Carried out under the pressure of guardian administration, they have seriously undermined the welfare of the population of Kalmykia.
19-22 310
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In the article the basic directions of local authorities activity of the Lower Volga region in the field of the solution of problems of children’s homelessness and neglect are considered, forms and methods of the Soviet management on overcoming children’s criminality are revealed, problems with which the Soviet offi cial organizations were in struggle against children’s homelessness during the military period are analyzed.
23-28 306
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The article is dedicated to an analysis of the Far Eastern geopolitics of France at the end of the 20th century. The special attention is paid to the systematic part and spatial determinism of the occurred events. The conclusions are presented in regard to the reasons and time of the fall of the French Indochina.
29-33 374
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The article is devoted to the history of emergence of theatre in Kalmykia. The elements of theatrical art which are concluded in national creativity and religious practices of a Tsam mystery are considered. There are also considered the history of emergence of theatre in 1920–1930s.
34-44 555
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The article is devoted to coverage of the issue of centralization of the administration of Russia’s Buddhists. The author shows that the view on the organization of the first Central Buddhist Board of Russian Buddhists in 1922 is erroneous and is based on the distortion of the facts.
SOCIOLOGY
58-61 251
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The article describes the legislative base of state financial support for families. The main directions of the maternity (family) capital in the Republic of Kalmykia are considered. The comparative description of laws on the regional maternity (family) capital in four regions of Southern Russia is given.
62-68 472
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The article puts into focus principles of the Republic of Kalmykia population distribution in natural and climatic zones. For the first time maps of arid zones and population density have been compared. The article contains also a comparative analysis of rural population density in the districts of Kalmykia in 1970 and 2010.
69-75 234
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In the article the attempt to reveal the importance of linguistic and communication structures at perception and evaluation of social advertisement messages is undertaken. The substantiation of expediency of mastering of features of national mentality as a necessary condition of success of the advertising product is resulted.
76-80 298
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In the article the youth role in preservation of Kalmyk culture is described. Young men, actively joining to folk customs, folklore, do not allow the ethnic culture to disappear in the conditions of assimilation.
ECONOMICS
Towards the Question of the Organizational Aspects of Management Reporting in the Livestock Industry
81-83 226
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The article outlines the basic theoretical and methodological issues in the compilation of management reportings in the livestock industry. The variants of compiling of management reporting in the livestock industry are examined.
84-87 223
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The article deals with the theoretical bases of the Islamic banking, definition of the Islamic bank was given and the role of the Islamic law in the regulation of the Islamic financial institutes activity is analyzed.
JURISPRUDENCE
88-92 462
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The article deals with the foreign experience in the organization of control system in the sphere of local government at the present time. The important part of the article is devoted to the lawful analysis of various control forms of local organizations in their implementation of the delegated authorities and also to the experience in the application of indirect control of the activity of local government in some foreign countries.
93-96 287
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The article deals with the issues of formation and development of federal law on elections of the President of the Russian Federation, democratization of the electoral law and procedure in the 1990-s. The federal law played an important role in the foundation of the Russian citizens’ position, including the citizens of Kalmykia, in solving crucial state problems.
LINGUISTICS / LITERATURE STUDIES
97-99 238
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The article is devoted to the case indicator -a:/-o:/-e: which one can find in the texts of the old Kalmyk written works dating back to XVIII century, for instance in the official documents. According to its lexical-grammatical form, this case corresponds to the archaic Mongol dative-locative case which one can find in such written texts as “The Secret History of the Mongols” (XIII c.) and “Altan Tobchi” (XVIII c.). Though, in its meanings it matches both the dative-locative and linking cases.
100-107 325
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The article deals with the results of the contrastive study of word families in the Kalmyk and the Russian languages. The structure of different types of nests belonging to different languages has much in common. In word families of the Kalmyk language one can find the same motivation and non motivation relations of single-root words which are common for the Russian word families. The volume of the word families depends on the wealth of the lexical meaning of the vertex word and its derivatives.
108-117 335
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The paper presents comparative analysis of the case forms in Dagur and Buryad. The author gives interpretation of ways of development of these forms from possible comments on how the case markers developed from common Mongolic state. The analysis lets us to ascertain the formal similarity of markers in Dagur and Buryad, which is due to the common origin. Above all the Dagur language has retained a number of archaic features, which Buryad lacks.
133-138 250
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The article presents a data of the “stone sutras” which are an integral part of the written and spiritual heritage of the Oirats. The description of the texts on “Clear Script” which were found out on six stones in one of residing areas of Xinjiang Oirats is given. It is shown that on five stones texts from “Vajracchedika-Sutra”, on one — Buddhist mantra “Om ma ni pad me hum” are beaten out.
139-145 289
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The article gives a description of manuscripts on “Clear Script” which are stored in the private collection of the Buddhist monk O. Namjil living in Mongol Kürya (PRC).
162-174 328
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The article observes some toponyms of Oirat origin which occur nowadays on the Chinese territory of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The subject of field study is an Oirat toponymic landscape, a set of the names of rivers, lakes, landforms, settlements, etc. as a verbal expression of the geographical landscape of the area. The main focus of the article is Oirat hydronymy (the names of the rivers and lakes). Presenting ethnolinguistic interpretation of the field data gathered during the expedition to China in 2012 the author reveals predominance of hydronymic system in the given area.
On the Characteristics of Oirat Manuscripts and Xylographs Stored in Private Collections in Xinjiang
175-179 243
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This article is devoted to description of the Oirat’s private collections of manuscripts and xylographs found during a scientific expedition in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of PRC.
180-186 330
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The article is devoted to the description of modern song folklore of Oirats of the Xinjiang-Uigur autonomous region of People’s Republic of China on a material collected by authors during the international expedition of 2012. The authors introduced into the scientifi c circulation a number of musical texts, recorded from an informant named Midgya.
FOLKLORE STUDIES
118-121 329
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In the article the plots of the bogatyr fairy-tales of the Kalmyk folklore which have much in common with Tatar and Mongolian heroic legends are analyzed.
122-126 276
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The article gives the description of thematic structure of songs of Kalmyk and Xinjiang-Oirat versions of the “Dzhangar” epos. The author comes to a conclusion that analysis of safety and modification, dynamics and statics, productivity and unproductiveness of thematic components of the epos allows to solve some issues of formation and existence of the epic text both within the framework of local epic tradition and of general epic level.
127-132 386
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In the article the life and work of an outstanding American scholar Albert B. Lord, the researcher of European eposes, the founder of the “oral” theory or Perry Lord’s theory is described. The author gives the description of his research on the «Kalevala», published in English.
ETHNOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY
45-57 384
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The article contains the analysis of research of a craniological series from the Bukeevsky steppe’s burial mounds localised in the Volga-Ural interflow. According to the archaeological data these materials were dated from the 14th century — an epoch of the Golden Horde age. In the paper in order to relate Bukeevsky steppe’s nomads to other groups of medieval population of Eastern Europe and cross-border areas the comparative analysis of the craniological series (from the 2nd millennium AD) was carried out.
146-155 380
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The article is a summary of the scientific expedition on the project «Linguistic and ethno-demographic features of the Oirats (Kalmyks) of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region of the PRC (from July 6 to August 13, 2012). The author describes the aims and objectives of the expedition, the participants, the preliminary results of the systematization and processing of field data.
156-161 354
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The article presents the preliminary results of analysis of the field materials on modern demographic and socio-political status of Oirats of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
187-192 394
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The article dedicated to the description of musical instruments of Oirats in the Western Mongolia and Xinjiang. There is a great variety of musical instruments that testifies about a high degree of development of the Oirat musical culture.
ISSN 2619-0990 (Print)
ISSN 2619-1008 (Online)
ISSN 2619-1008 (Online)
