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January, 16. 2013. Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov on the opening ceremony Artesian High School.

Today the Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov visited with working visit to Chernozemelskiy district where the village Artesian took part in the opening ceremony Artesian High School № 2, Read the rest of this entry »

Professor from St. Petersburg Svetlana Makhlina about Buddhism, kalmyk culture, ritual dances and temples

Buddhism – historically the first world religion. And yet, as Borges said, is “the most widespread religion in the world”. In Russia, the earliest penetration of Buddhism was characteristic of the Kalmyk people, who took more than 400 years ago.

Kalmyk culture germinated on the unique cultural soil elyutov who lived in a colorful country where the vast steppes “stretched white, happiness, koshmovye tent noble Noyon and zaisangs, but black as a bitter fate, tents commoners – albatu, ketchinerov and shabinerov”. Read the rest of this entry »

January 15, 2013 held a working meeting of the Head of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov with the CEO “Kalmyk broiler” Albert Yegorov. The meeting focused on the creation of a new plant for the production of poultry meat in Kalmykia.

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Government of Kalmykia Igor Zotov, First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Agriculture, Peter Lantsanov. Read the rest of this entry »

[ Ru ] President of the international organization of FIDE, the former head of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Russia Mr. Udayanga Weeratunga.

Were to discuss the transfer of the Bodhi tree sapling with a view to its subsequent delivery to Kalmykia.

“It is proposed that the ceremony will be held in February this year in Colombo. Bodhi tree – the legendary tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment” Read the rest of this entry »

Topic of my discussion is about me, because I have unusual life story.

My name is Olga. My family is good and successful; my parents brought me up as a kind, helpful and clever girl. At school I always studied hard and my mother took me to different societies: to art school, to the center for talented children for learning English and computer classes, bell dances. To tell the truth, I felt myself as a “blue stocking”, I had no private life and friends, but after finishing school my life abruptly changed. Read the rest of this entry »

Mystical creatures and bone of virgin waiting for You!
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Welcome to kalmyk museum!

It is safe with us!

Kalmyk National Theatre present the performance “Judge me themselves” in Elista, capital of Kalmykia.

January, 25 and 26. 2013.

18.00.

Welcome to theatre! Read the rest of this entry »

Today, January 10, hosted a working meeting of the Head of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov with the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Republic of Kalmykia, Nikolai Ochirov, reports KalmykiaNews agency.

During the meeting they discussed the development of the oil and gas industry in Kalmykia, as well as the implementation of investment projects in Kalmykia in Read the rest of this entry »

Innovative and space technologies of Kalmykia: The space expansion is discussed by engineers from Kalmykia. Kalmyk engineers plan to start living microorganisms into space.

Tardigrades (commonly known as waterbears or moss piglets or “Wooly Bears”) are small, water-dwelling, segmented animals with eight legs notable for being one of the most complex of all known polyextremophiles. Read the rest of this entry »

Kalmyk wedding [ Ru ]

Information about kalmyk wedding: Marriages are made by collusion between the parents of the future husband and wife, the consent of guys and girls usually do not ask.

Girl were married outside his khoton*. Chiyal Bazaar was not, but the values ​​are passed on the groom’s family to the bride’s family to be significant.

Previously gelyung** defines whether a marriage successful. This was compared Read the rest of this entry »

Christmas – a celebration the Ecumenical values. His grace epistle drawn to for each of us, regardless of national or social conventionalities, reports Read the rest of this entry »

Kalmyk corpus created by Alexandra Vankaeva

Internet, with its vast amount of information has become firmly established in our lives. Every year more and more people are getting their users. Under the heading “Khalmg NET» we are going to tell our readers about the most interesting online projects related to the Kalmyk culture, having any relation to the Mongol world at large. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, January 6, in Elista held traditional charity children’s holiday “Christmas Eve.”

Holiday prepared by the students of Sunday school of the Kazan Cathedral of Elista.

On a holiday special guests was attended Bishop of Kalmykia Zinovy ​​and Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov.

Members of the “Eve” were children Read the rest of this entry »

Russian politician Irina Khakamada: Kalmykia amazed me [ De | Ru | Fr | Es ]

Russian politician Irina Khakamada: Cheerful small nation

East – a delicate matter. This is common knowledge. But one thing – to talk about it, and quite another – encounter this subtlety in life. Read the rest of this entry »

Many tourists have asked me this question: When time of flowering tulips in Kalmykia? Therefore, I decided to write for all at once.
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Flowering tulips in Kalmykia starts around at the end of April – early May. Therefore, usually residents of Republic of Kalmykia and the tourists travel to the spring blooming steppe to admire the blooming tulips on May holidays (from 1 to 10 May).

The time of flowering of wild tulips in Kalmykia may change depending on how early or late spring begin. If the spring is Read the rest of this entry »