performing ohuokhay , a traditional circle dance of the Turkic-speaking Sakha (Yakut) people in which participants—who can be both male and female—move around holding hands and stepping back and forth to a rhythm set by a lead singer with whom they sing
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Zoia Tarasova
Jenanne Ferguson
In going over submissions to Sibirica at the beginning of 2021, I found several articles related to culture and history in the Sakha Republic. Naturally, I thought it would be illuminating to bring them together to see how they might complement
Nicholas Parlato, Gail Fondahl, Viktoriya Filippova, and Antonina Savvinova
identities through legal actions and channels. In a close examination of the creation of two neighboring TTPs within the Sakha Republic (Iakutiia), one of the Russian Federation's 80-plus “federal subjects” (regions), we explore the evolving role TTPs have
Susan Crate
are proceeding faster than models have predicted, largely due to the cascading effects inherent in the earth system (IPCC 2021). The Arctic is seeing the most rapid change and, within it, the Sakha Republic, home to one of the most extreme climates in
Angelina Lukina
Translator : Tatiana Argounova-Low
For the Yakut 1 people residing in the region of Sakha (Yakutia), 2 northeastern Siberia, dances have always been a constituent and important part of their tradition and believed to have magical potency. Dances also represented a certain worldview
Toward a Postimperial Order?
The Sakha Intellectuals and the Revolutionary Transformations in Late Imperial Russia, 1905–1917
Aleksandr Korobeinikov and Egor Antonov
On April 27, 1922, a few months before the formation of the USSR, the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a resolution “On the Autonomous Sakha Socialist Soviet Republic” as an equal part of the Russian Soviet
Ivory Carving in Yakutia
National Identity and Processes of Acculturation
Zinaida I. Ivanova-Unarova and Liubov R. Alekseeva
regions of Arkhangelsk and Tyumen, in Sakha (Yakutia) and in Chukotka. The Chukchi ivory carving tradition is the oldest, dating back to the ancient Bering Sea period, or the beginning of the first century AD. Various objects made of walrus tusk were
Natalya Khokholova
It is customary in remote parts of Russia, like the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), to hear of people being reported lost and missing, as the region is a vast and scarcely populated territory with poorly developed infrastructure. During the summer
State of Uncertainty
Educating the First Railroaders in Central Sakha (Yakutiya)
Sigrid Irene Wentzel
connections may be taken for granted in some parts of the world, few places today offer the opportunity to observe the installation of a new railway line. One such case is the Amur-Yakutsk Mainline (AYaM ) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) in the Russian
Sensory Perception of Rock Art in East Siberia and the Far East
Soviet Archeological “Discoveries” and Indigenous Evenkis
Donatas Brandišauskas
whole up to the present time ( Brandišauskas 2017 ). 1 These sites can be seen as being linked to the ideas of animism as well as human interactions with spirits and animals (see Brandišauskas 2011 ). During my field research in the Republic of Sakha