#Kalmyks

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Kalmyks from Russia

Russian vintage postcard, mailed in 1902 to Rybnik, Poland

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Kalmyk alphabet

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"Juan y paty 2" fb wrote: Kalmyk people are a Mongolic ethnic group living mainly in Russia, whose ancestors migrated from Dzungaria.

From Wikipedia: Kalmyks are the only Mongolic-speaking people living in Europe, residing in the easternmost part of the European Plain. This dry steppe area, west of the lower Volga River, known among the nomads as Itil/Idjil, basin on the Northwest shore of the Caspian Sea was the most suitable land for nomadic pastures. Itil or Idjil, the ancient name of the Volga River, written in the archaic Oirat script means exactly that, the "pastures" (Oirat-Kalmyk dictionary, 1977).

The ancestors of Kalmyks were nomadic groups of Oirat-speaking people, who migrated from Western Mongolia to Eastern Europe three times: in early medieval times, establishing in the 6th-8th century the Avar-Rouran Khanate; in medieval times, establishing the Ulus of Juchi and Il-Kanate as Khuda-in-laws of Chiggis Khan (Juvaini A-M. Genghis Khan: the history of the world conqueror. Manchester, UK: Manchester Univ. Press; 1997), and finally, in early modern times, establishing the Kalmyk Khanate in the 17th century.

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Kalmyk khanate. The only Buddhist majority state to ever exist in Europe.

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"Dune Wrestling"

"I visited this small dune in the Kalmyk semi-desert in different months for several years. Each visit added new information about the most interesting local residents, the secret toadhead agamas. I observed their mating behavior, building new burrows, hunting insects, and territorial conflicts. It was these fights while defending their territory that were the most exciting spectacle. A whole ritual with initial “negotiations” with the help of various movements of the tail, demonstration of intimidating poses, and a preliminary warlike dance culminated in a tough fight. This is one of the moments of such a fight in which small lizards look like grappling wrestlers on a sports mat."

By Victor Tyakht

Close-Up Photographer of the Year 

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Kalmyk girl, Russia, by Гаспар Лалаян

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Soviet M1919 uniform (Kalmyk formations)

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1929. Kalmyk woman in terlg and toortsg hat

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Hear me out, what if period drama but make it Kalmyk?

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" Who are any of us, anyway? We all generally operate on this notion of a true self. Yet, is there really such a thing as a true self? "

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Kalmyks from Russia

Russian vintage postcard, mailed in 1901 to Romans, France

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finally working on sorkish numerals and 16 ended up being "urvntŕ" [ʊrβn̩ˈdr̩]. good luck to any 16 year old sorkans

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Kalmykian woman speaks up

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Greetings in some languages of Mongolic and Tungusic (Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk, Manchu, Xibe, Evenki, and more).

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「Vasily Vereshchagin. A Kalmyk Lama」