Oral Histories
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This collection hosts oral histories about events that have taken place in the recent past or are still in the process of unfolding including: stories about pre-Soviet nomadic lifestyle, the demolition of Buddhist temples in the 1930s, the deportation of the Kalmyks in 1943, the subsequent return of the Kalmyks from exile, life in the post-exile period, as well as stories about places, famous people, unusual objects, encounters with ghosts and spirits, adventures, and many others.
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Item Open Access Badma Koldaev, Dzhakuevka and other Astrakhan villages(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-04-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Koldaev, Tseren; Korneev, Gennadiy; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Badma Koldaev, about the writer Konstantin Erendzhenov(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-04-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Koldaev, Tseren; Korneev, Gennadiy; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Anna Bembeeva, About black tulips(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-02-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Bembeev, AleksandrItem Open Access Andrei Boskhomdzhiev, The village of Ovata, etymology(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-11-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Korneev, Gennadiy; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Bembeev, AleksandrItem Open Access Zinaida Pavlova, How my father's family was deported to Siberia(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-10-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Koldaev, Tseren; Korneev, Gennadiy; Sandzhiev, ArturItem Open Access Yuriy iIyanov, About Sandji Kalyaev(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-04-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Koldaev, TserenItem Open Access Andrei Boskhomdzhiev, About Kalmyk demonology(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-11-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Korneev, Gennadiy; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Bembeev, AleksandrItem Open Access Vladimir Karuev, About the etymology of the word kalmyk(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-02-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Sandzhiev, ArturItem Open Access Vladimir Baglikov, About the exile(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-10-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Bembeev, AleksandrItem Open Access Viktor Pompaev, About the exile(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-09-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Vera Tepkeeva, About the Kalmyk language and the National Drama Theatre(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-11-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Vera Bembeeva, About the village of Sharnut(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-01-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Korneev, Gennadiy; Bembeev, AleksandrItem Open Access Valeriy Ulyumdzhiev, About the lotus flower(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-07-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Koldaev, Tseren; Altana Okonova; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Tamara Bazyreva, About local toponyms(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2015-11-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Anton; Kovaeva, Bair; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Sergei Olzeev, The names of settlements that have disappeared(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-03-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Sandzhiev, Artur; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Sergei Olzeev, Exile(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-03-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Sandzhiev, Artur; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Sergei Olzeev, About kolkhoz and the construction of Kizlyar-Astrakhan railway(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-03-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Sandzhiev, Artur; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Andrei Boskhomdzhiev, A spell against evil(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2017-11-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Korneev, Gennadiy; Bembeev, Aleksandr; Bembeev, AleksandrItem Open Access Sergei Olzeev, About ghost stories(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2018-03-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Churyumova, Elvira; Korneev, Gennadiy; Sandzhiev, Artur; Churyumov, AntonItem Open Access Sanal Lidzhiev, About mystery and the unknown(Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge, 2015-09-01) Terbish, Baasanjav; Dovurkaev, Karu; Ubushieva, Bamba