No 3 (2025)
LINGUISTICS
Phraseological Units of Grudges of the Siberian Tatars with the Component ‘Pash’ – ‘Head’ in the Structural and Semantic Aspect
Abstract
The grudges and curses of the Siberian Tatars with the component ‘pash’ – ‘head’ are analyzed from a structural and semantic point of view. The topic’s relevance lies in the fact that this group of phraseological units occurs both in Tatar linguistics and dialectology. The method of interviewing informants, the descriptive-analytical method, the method of structural-semantic analysis, component analysis, the method of definition comparison, and the quantitative-statistical method were applied. The originality of the study lies in the use of new dialectal material, the identification of forms of phraseological units in the dialects of Siberian Tatars, and the determination of national and cultural characteristics of the analyzed units in the dialectal space of the Tatar language. The grudges of the Siberian Tatars echo the old Turkic linguistic worldview. The pejorative phraseological units of the component ‘pash’ - ‘head’ reflect a pre-religious view of the universe. The anthropocentric principle is reflected in the correlation of the human head with the Upper World. In the wishes to bring the head under the earth (to the underworld), there is a demand for the death of the addressee, e.g., ‘паш тумән парыф қатал’ – ‘head down,’ ‘пашың пелән паш түмән кит’ – ‘head down,’ ‘пашың йер астыта йатсын (цересен)’ – ‘your head lies under the earth (rotting).’ The authors have identified ways of forming phraseological units of grudges in the dialects of Siberian Tatars – using the imperative (zero affix -сын // -сен) and the wishful mood (-ғыр / -гер, -қыр /-кер). It has been shown that some units function in a full and a shortened version: ‘эценә шеш қаталғыр и қаталғыр,’ ‘инәңнең (атаңның, палаңның пашын йот и паш йотқыр.’ Phraseological units of grudges are directed against the wrongdoer – a bad person, a thief, an envious person, a slanderer, a greedy person, an insatiable person, a braggart, a pest, a scoundrel, a liar, etc. The extent of the punishment varies: from physical mutilation (‘пашыңа таш төшсөн’ – ‘a stone shall fall on your head’) to death (‘пашыңны айу йотсон’ – ‘a bear shall eat your head’), from one (‘тәнеңне пашсыс күмсеннәр’ – ‘your corpse shall be buried without a head’) to several cases (‘қайғылартан пашың цықмасын’ – ‘don’t let your head get out of rest’). Phraseological units have paradigmatic relationships and form synonymous series. The material studied can be used in the compilation of dialect, phraseological, linguistic, and cultural dictionaries of the Tatar language, which constitutes the practical value of this article.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):9 - 18
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Semantic Invariant of the Sociative Suffix –lsA in Barguzin Buryat
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This article deals with the semantics of the suffix -lsA in Barguzin Buryat. The morpheme originally coded sociative but then also took on the reciprocal function. Field data from Baragkhan ulus (Republic of Buryatia), collected by interviewing local speakers and by elicitation, show that contrary to previous works on Buryat, the Barguzin version of the suffix -lsA does not form traditional assistive clauses and has certain limitations in terms of how a plural argument can be expressed in sociative clauses: essentially, it cannot form sociative clauses in the strict sense, i.e. it does not allow a simple plural noun phrase or coordinated noun phrases as the plural argument. In the paper, the existing meanings of the affix are shown, including different sociative types: subject-oriented, object-oriented, and event-oriented. It has been established that the events described by sociative clauses must be spatially, temporally, and factually related. I argue that all possible meanings of the suffix amount to event plurality as the semantic invariant. Furthermore, the events -lsA refers must be part of the same situation (in the sense of situation semantics). Reciprocal and sociative semantics of different types then result from different possible contextual relations between the events. For example, in the case of a reciprocal clause with two participants, the events share the same set of participants and descriptive properties but differ in the distribution of semantic roles between the participants. Argumentoriented sociative clauses refer to events that have the same descriptive properties but differ in an argument. ‘Attendant action’ -lsA clauses refer to events that may have nothing in common except the basic connection within the situation they both belong to.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):19 - 28
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Vocalism In The Middle Chulym Language: Some Preliminary Results
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The article is devoted to analysing vocalism in Middle Chulym, one of the two dialects of the Chulym Turkic language, which belongs to the Khakass-Shor subgroup of Turkic languages. The article examines various phonetic processes associated with the development of vowels, including the changes that have occurred from a historical perspective and in relation to synchronic phonetic phenomena. The authors have carried out a detailed analysis of the changes in Proto-Turkic vowels in Middle Chulym, including the raising, labialisation and reflection of vowels in position after velar consonants. The influence of the consonantal environment on the qualitative and quantitative changes of the vowels, such as compensatory and contractive length, as well as specific cases of contraction in different contexts, are also considered. The main focus is on acoustic data obtained in field studies, which allow us to clarify previously assumed phonetic changes. In particular, the assumptions about the complete transition of the front vowels to the back row, which were made on the basis of auditory analyses, are refuted. These processes allow a better understanding of the internal development of Middle Chulym vocalism and the identification of its unique innovations that distinguish this dialect from other languages of the Khakass subgroup.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):29 - 47
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The Russian Language in the Assessments of the Mongols: the Sociolinguistic Representation
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The article is devoted to analyzing the linguistic attitudes, evaluations, and social representations of the inhabitants of modern Mongolia in relation to the Russian language. The empirical basis of the study is based on the results of a comprehensive socio-psycholinguistic survey on the function of the Russian language in the educational system of Mongolia, which was conducted from 2021 to 2023. The survey results show that respondents believe Russian should be taught in Mongolia’s educational institutions. The analysis of subjective attitudes revealed a certain hierarchy of foreign languages in the rating system of adult Mongolians: English comes first, Russian second, and Chinese third. The study showed that there are different motives for learning these languages. English is characterized by integrative attitudes, while Russian and Chinese are instrumental. At the same time, the results showed that the conceptual image of the Mongolian world is more similar and closer to the Russian worldview than to English and Chinese. Respondents consider Russian to be an important and necessary language for getting a good education, achieving academic goals, traveling, and satisfying cultural needs. The analysis of the social perception of Mongolians regarding the importance of the Russian language today, the need to learn it, and the problems in the education system revealed that the main reasons for the deterioration of Russian language skills are primarily problems in the education system, the lack of language and competition with other foreign languages. At the same time, the majority of respondents (82%) believe that Mongolians need Russian language skills in modern conditions. The main factors contributing to the functioning of the Russian language in Mongolia are the prestige of the Russian language as a scientific and educational language, the territorial proximity of the two states, common historical moments, rich Russian culture and art. To solve the problems related to the Russian language, the majority proposes to improve the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language in the Mongolian education system and to update legal acts at the state and interstate levels.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):48 - 60
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Mother Tongue Level of Sakha Children in the Monoethnic Environment of the Sakha Republic
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The relevance of the research topic arises from the need to provide a scientifically sound description of the linguistic situation and to find solutions for preserving the Sakha language in the context of a linguistic shift when children lose their mother tongue, even in a monoethnic environment. The study aimed to determine the level of the native language of Sakha children aged 5 to 17 years in 14 districts of the Republic of Sakha, where the Sakha–speaking population predominates (Amginsky, Vilyuysky, Verkhnevilyuysky, Verkhoyansky, Gorny, Megino-Kangalassky, Namsky, Nyurbinsky, Srednekolymsky, Suntarsky, Tattinsky, Ust-Aldan, Churapchinsky, Khangalassky), as well as in four kindergartens and three schools in Yakutsk with a Sakha-speaking environment. The scientific novelty of the study is that a comprehensive sociolinguistic study of the mother tongue level of Sakha-speaking children of younger and middle age was carried out for the first time. The study attempts to investigate the sociolinguistic problem of the reproduction of the Sakha language by preschool and school-age children in relation to the linguistic attitudes of their parents. The work’s theoretical significance lies in clarifying the content of the concept of ‘language mastery’ in relation to bilingualism from a sociolinguistic perspective. The study’s practical significance lies in the fact that the results obtained can be used to determine measures to improve children’s language skills.
The study of language competence is based on the theories of lexical semantics by Yu. Apresyan, the “Primordial Vocabulary” of Yu. Desheriev, the interference of L. Shcherba, E. Vereshchagin, A. Karlinsky, the psychological theory of coherent speech of A. Leontiev, S. Rubinstein, the language development methods of M. Alekseeva, B. Yashina, O. Ushakova, of E. Strunina and the socio-psycholinguistic approach of N. Ivanova.
The empirical material was collected during the implementation of the research project “Monitoring the native language level of Sakha children in preschools and secondary schools of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)” in 2024, within the framework of the state program “Preservation and Development of State and Official Languages in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in 2020–2024”. Interviews were conducted with 4,052 children aged 5 to 17 years, and a sociolinguistic survey of 1,574 parents in 14 target villages and in Yakutsk, which made it possible to establish not only the fact of language shift but also the conditioning of children’s linguistic development by the attitude of their parents. The oral interviewing method was used, including children’s stories about themselves, their family, and their daily routine, an interview on a picture, a picture-based story, a method of nonintegrative observation of children’s communication, and a sociolinguistic survey of parents, caregivers, and teachers. The collected material was processed using data analysis, interpretation, and systematization.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):61 - 69
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On the Problem of Etymologizing the Ichthyonyms of the Russian Dialect with the Stem ar-/arg- ‘Minnow’
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A lexical group of words with the stem ar-/arg- (arka, agysh, argan, etc.) was recorded in the Russian dialects of the Perm, Kirov, and Sverdlovsk regions, while no equivalents were found in other regions. According to the available etymology, they go back to the Komi word ar ‘malek, fry’, which seems quite convincing given the structural and semantic similarity of the Komi and Russian equivalents and the area in which they occur. However, the version appears incomplete, as the material of the Komi and Russian dialects has not yet been fully considered, although the analysis allows for other sources. The study aims to test the hypothesis further and close the gaps as much as possible. The material for the study was taken from various lexicographical sources: Dialectal, regional, thematic, etymological, etc. Dictionaries of the Komi and Russian languages, dictionaries and scientific works dealing with ichthyonymic vocabulary, description of fish species, habitat in the region, etc. The methods and techniques of areal linguistics, comparative and comparative historical linguistics were used. The result of the study is: 1) it is confirmed that the Russian ichthyonyms are related to the common Komi word ar ‘malek, fish fry’; it is shown that under the conditions of close contacts between Russians and Komi-Permians the forms arik, arka, arga ‘malyavka’ were formed, which underwent further formal and semantic transformation under the conditions of dominant Russian influence: argysh, argish, argashik, arishka , etc. ‘small river fish’, ‘minnow’; 2) it was found that the epicenter of innovation was the Upper Kama region, the zone of the closest KomiPermian-Russian contacts, from where the contamination forms penetrated both the Komi-Zyryan and the Russian dialects of the more remote areas of the Perm territory and other regions; 3) a new version is proposed about the second possible origin of the Russian ichthyonyms, which is supported by comparable material from the Turkic languages (e.g., tat. argon, argan/ argan balyk ‘salmon’), ichthyological sources from the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX century indirectly testify to this.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):70 - 79
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ANTHROPOLOGY
“There is No More Poozerye”: Ilmenskoye Poozerye – Extinction or Transformation?
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The article deals with the transformation of the cultural identity of the indigenous inhabitants of Ilmenskoye Poozerye (Ilmenskoye Lake Region) against the background of modern social and economic changes and emphasizes the historical significance of this region, which still retains some unique cultural features such as the dialect and a distinct local identity of the indigenous population. Although Ilmenskoye Poozerye is not an official administrative-territorial unit today and is often referred to in the past tense, the locals clearly recognize the boundaries of their region and continue to refer to themselves as Poozerians. Contrary to the widespread opinion of experts that the Ilmenskoye Poozerye region has exhausted its research potential, the article shows that this historical area can currently be researched. Although the local population itself is convinced of the ‘death’ of the Poozerye, the research shows that the Poozer community has not died but has changed.
Based on in-depth interviews with people born in the Poozerye villages, it is concluded that the current community is imaginary, as it does not include all Ilmenskoye Poozerye residents, on the one hand, and urban residents with Poozer roots, who are emotionally connected to this micro-region and share the value of its past, on the other. At the same time, despite their physical distance from each other, residents continue to feel part of a single community and refer to themselves as Poozerians. Nostalgia for past times and village life unites both native Poozerians and those who have moved to the city, creating a community that can be described as ‘nostalgic.’ In this context, nostalgia is seen as a resource that creates social bonds and enables coping with life changes. The emotional attachment to the place itself and its past is another form of manifestation of the local identity of the Poozerye community, along with other criteria.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):80 - 88
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The Orthodox Parish in the Context of the Changes in the Anti-Religious Policy of the Soviet State 1944–1945 (Based on the Material of the Peter and Paul Church of Tomsk)
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The article analyzes the problems of believers and clergy in the Tomsk region in the restoration of religious life in the context of changes in the anti-religious policy of the state in 1944-1945 using the example of the Peter and Paul Church in Tomsk. The study is based on documents from the collection of the Plenipotentiary of the Council for Religious Affairs at the Council of Ministers of the USSR for the Tomsk Region. The article states that the repressive religious policy of the pre-war period did not lead to a complete suppression of religion and that religious congregations were illegal. It notes that one of these congregations, which formed around an illegal house of prayer, had a significant share in the revived parish. We have analyzed the conditions under which the Orthodox congregation of the Peter and Paul Church was involved in the restoration of religious life in a legal position. We came to the conclusion that the change in religious policy in 1943 met with the inertia of the local authorities, and it took a year for all the formalities for the opening of the church to be approved. The reports of the local authorities and the documents of the congregation reveal problems in the restoration of religious life, such as the poor technical condition of the building purchased by the faithful, conflicts between the congregation and the priesthood of the Novosibirsk and Barnaul diocese, and internal congregational problems related to the confrontation between priests and parishioners. The article reveals a lack of unity among the active parishioners when one of the parties, during the course of the conflict, revealed information to the authorities about the maintenance of an illegal house of prayer before the establishment of the parish. We analyzed the congregation’s serious problems with financial accounting and the violations of the condition of the church buildings. We concluded that spiritual life has declined during the ongoing anti-religious persecution. The article provides quantitative data on the level of liturgical activities of the Peter and Paul Church clergy in the context of demographic changes in the region. We found that the restrictions on the revitalization of religious life did not fully meet the needs of the population. The article shows that even under these conditions, other Tomsk believers turned to the Peter and Paul Church, and the clergy conducted services and sacraments not only in the city itself but also outside the city, which could be due to the social demand for the revival of religious life.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):89 - 98
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Building Rituals of the Chuvash
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The article characterizes the content of occasional rituals related to the construction of houses among the Chuvash in the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The study aims to determine the ritual practices associated with house construction. The work’s theoretical basis is the comparative history method, which makes it possible to identify parallels in the culture of the peoples of the Ural-Volga region. The article deals with rituals such as sacrifice during construction, the choice of a place for the construction of a future house, the rite of nikĕs pătti/‘porridge for the deity of the foundation’ and the installation of mačcha kashti/‘ matitsa.’ Based on archival information and materials obtained from Chuvash informants in the regions of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Samara, and Chelyabinsk during the expeditions from 2009 to 2018, the ritual acts accompanying the construction of a house characterized by the uniformity and local peculiarities are shown. The context of the ritual acts was common to the Chuvash in all regions. However, differences were found in the number of apotropaic objects, the verbal code, and the status of the speaker. The great importance of occasional rituals in the construction of a dwelling shows the special attitude of the Chuvash toward the sacralization of space and their desire to domesticate it and use it according to their own needs. The performance of building rituals created the conditions for the well-being of the family and the material prosperity of the future homeowners, and the effect of apotropaic magic protected against the harmful effects of otherworldly forces. A space unsuitable for construction or ritual acts not performed in time could lead to misfortune. Therefore, all traditions and customs associated with construction were strictly observed. The symbolism of the apotropaic objects necessary for construction – coins and wool, sometimes cereals and grain - has been preserved in modern construction areas despite the change in traditional ideas about their original purpose and the influence of Orthodoxy on the worldview of the majority of Chuvash. The results of the study open up the prospect of a systematic study of Chuvash building rituals and characterize their changes over time (from archival material and authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries to ethnographic material collected in the 21st century) and space (different regions of the UralVolga region where the Chuvashes settle are considered).
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):99 - 108
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Selkup Porca: Methods of Preparation, Methods of Consumption, Transformation of Meanings
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The article is dedicated to the most important product of traditional Selkup cuisine – fishmeal called porsa in Selkup. The historical significance of porsa in the Selkup diet is examined and compared with ‘Russian bread’ – grain flour. Techniques for the preparation of porsa and methods for its consumption are discussed. New values for fishmeal that have emerged over the last two decades are recorded. The problem of Selkup porsa has not yet been studied separately, which is a scientific novelty. The article serves to preserve the Selkup national culture and encourages the Selkups to search for new forms of ethnicity, making it relevant. The research was carried out using analysis, description, comparative historical method, and field research. As a result of the study, the following conclusions were drawn. Porsa is comparable to grain flour in its appearance and, more importantly, in its role in the Selkups’ livelihood. The techniques for making porsa varied but were all based on the method of grinding dried fish. The porsa was eaten dry and flavored with fish oil; the porsa was cooked into a soup; large quantities of wild berries were added to these dishes. Porsa was considered a strategic product as it was easy to store and helped the Selkups when they had a ‘rainy day’ and ran out of food. Mixed with grain flour, porsa was used to bake bread, cakes, and pies. Among the Selkups, some dishes are called porsa but are not prepared in the form of fishmeal, or dishes that are prepared from minced dried fish but are not considered porsa; these dishes and porsa lead to a common denominator – fish oil, which is found in all of them. Due to the discovery of these contradictory phenomena, the study raised the question of which products and dishes other than fishmeal the Selkups referred to as porsa. To date, the production and consumption of dishes made from porsa have been minimized among the Selkups; porsa has changed its meaning and has become a means of recalling the happy past, a medicine that cures the stomach, and above all, a tool with which the Selkups assert their ethnic identity.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):109 - 119
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On the Problem of Preserving the Traditional Wedding of the Southern Altai People as a Cultural Heritage of the Altai Republic in the City of Gorno-Altaisk
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The article aims to shed light on the problem of preserving the Altai wedding in the town of Gorno-Altaisk. The study’s material is field data collected by the author over three decades in the Altai Republic. The methods of description and systematization of the collected material were used in the analysis of the source base. It was found that in the urban Altai population, a traditional wedding is considered prestigious, which is why the ritual wedding ‘Altai toi’ is celebrated in the first half of the day, and a youth wedding is celebrated in the second half of the day. It is emphasized that the modern wedding ceremony is less extensive compared to the traditional one, which is important in urban conditions. The characteristics of the town’s wedding ceremony are described, essentially performed as a sign of respect for the bride’s relatives. Attention is drawn to the problems that arise when Altaians perform a wedding in a comfortable apartment when an open fire is required for the rituals in honor of the family hearth. The problem of ritual chanting, which accompanies the bride through the streets of the town to the house of the groom’s parents and is performed early in the morning, is described, and it is pointed out that the town of Gorno-Altaisk acts as a ‘hub’ of the ritual life of the ethno-territorial groups of the Altai people, whose representatives live in the capital of the republic. This can be illustrated by the example of the Southern Altai people, whose ethnic self-identification consists of ethnoconsolidating characteristics – traditions, customs, and language. Controversial wedding situations arise when the groom or bride are Telengits because the ritual meanings of the Altai Kizhi and Telengits do not match. Contradictions can be observed when the wedding is performed in the “Telengit way” with the combination of post-wedding offerings (‘belkenchek’), while the Altai Kizhi prohibition that the bride’s parents be present at the wedding in the groom’s home is observed. The described tradition of observing the main rituals and ceremonies allows us to attribute the preserved Altai wedding rites to the ethnocultural heritage of the Altai Republic. Over the last ten years, the Council of Zaisans, as the head of the clans-seoks, has proposed establishing a “yurt-ayil” as a center of traditional culture, where the most important rituals can be held in honor of the groom’s ancestral fire. Special efforts are needed to develop ethnic culture in modern conditions and make the town a spiritual center.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):120 - 130
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Nutritional Model of the Komi (Zyryan) During the Great Patriotic War
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The article is based on the analysis of ethnographic sources and discusses the dietary habits of the Komi (Zyryan) during the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of the topic arises from the fact that in modern ethnological science, there is an interest in the topic of ethnic adaptation during the crisis when the mechanisms rooted in folk culture are actualized, which makes it possible to maintain the minimum living standards of society. The research optics aims to study the life of people in the conditions of hunger, which makes it possible to reveal the characteristics of food and understand how, in the absence of a centralized state supply, the lack of food was overcome and what life practices were realized. The sources for the article were the materials on food culture in Komi (Zyryan) collected by T. Chudova in 2000-2022, which are now in the scientific archive of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University. Also included are the author’s field notes on everyday practices during the war years. Oral narratives about life and everyday life are historical sources that make it possible to obtain reliable information first-hand and not through interpretation. Analysis of the ethnographic sources leads to the conclusion that food resources during the war years depended on the season: From spring to fall, the basis of the diet consisted of wild plants, and in winter, – potatoes and vegetables. The use of the region’s biological resources enabled survival during this difficult period, and the knowledge of the nutritional properties of wild plants and the maintenance of the practice of including them in the diet points to the mechanisms embedded in folk culture that enable us to adapt to food shortages. The basis of the traditional diet in Komi (Zyryan) was the cultivation of grain, the scarcity of which during the war years and the impossibility of obtaining it from the region led to changes in the structure of cultivated land when they began to actively grow potatoes and vegetables, which took an important place in the diet. The protein component of the diet has practically disappeared from the table of rural residents. The presence of a feed cow on the farm made it possible to somehow survive in a time of hunger. Based on the product range composition, the nutrition model during the war can be defined as a ‘survival model’.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):131 - 138
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FOR THE SCIENTIST'S ANNIVERSARY
Finno-ugric Direction of the Linguistic School Founded by A. Dulzon in Tomsk
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This review article is dedicated to the Finno-Ugric field of research as part of the scientific heritage of Andrei Petrovich Dulzon (also known as Andreas Dulson), whose 125th anniversary will be celebrated in 2025. A. Dulzon, an outstanding Russian scientist and an international authority in the field of linguistics, ethnography, and archeology, made a remarkable contribution to the study of the languages and cultures of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. A. Dulzon’s role in founding the linguistic school at the Tomsk State Pedagogical University, which today houses the Laboratory of the Languages of the Siberian Peoples is particularly noteworthy. The problem he formulated regarding the origin of the Siberian aborigines and their languages is of central importance, which became the basis for complex interdisciplinary studies by linguists, archeologists, and ethnographers. The article reflects the main stages in developing the Finno-Ugric direction, beginning with the studies of A. Dulzon himself in the 1960s and continuing to the present day. The article describes the main areas of interest of scholars in this direction, as well as the latest trends in their research, in which more and more attention is paid to the integrated linguoanthropological approach to the study of the languages and cultures of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the North, which A. Dulzon insisted on. The linguistic school of A. Dulzon continues to develop, conducting field research and publishing activities, organizing conferences that serve as a platform for the exchange of knowledge and research in the field of languages and cultures, attracting scientists from all over the world, and making a significant contribution to the overall picture of linguistic and cultural knowledge.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):139 - 147
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Andrei Petrovich Dulzon – One of the Founders of the Siberian School of Turkology
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The article deals with the work of A. Dulzon (also known as Andreas Dulson), the founder of the Tomsk School of Turkology and one of the pioneers in the study of the Chulym Turkic language and the dialects of the Tomsk Tatars. Thanks to the work of A. Dulzon, the Chulym-Turkic language, received its first systematic scientific description, becoming the standard for subsequent generations of researchers. Professor Dulzon’s research laid the foundation for the development of many areas of modern Siberian Turkology, including toponymy, dialectology, and the interaction of different ethnic groups in the region. Under the direct supervision of A. Dulzon, six dissertations on Turkic languages and toponymy were defended. Through his efforts, regional scientific schools were founded, including the Novokuznetsk School of Turkology, where more than 20 doctoral students were trained in Shor and other Turkic languages. Today, the traditions of studying Siberian Turkic languages established by Andrei Dulzon continue and are developed at Tomsk State Pedagogical University (TSPU). Thus, the work of A. Dulzon is still relevant and in demand, confirming his scientific legacy’s importance for the modern generation of Turkologists.
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2025;(3):148 - 156
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