Deportation and genocide in Soviet period in Soviet Union

Kizlyar-Astrakhan

The inhabitants of Kalmykia, mainly women, the elderly and children, worked on the construction of this railway. Adult men at that time were at the front, in the army. The road was built as soon as possible.

It was a real feat. But nobody talks about this anywhere.

It is still silent. (more…)

Republic of Kalmykia [ Ru ]

To the 75th anniversary of the deportation and genocide of the Kalmyk people in the Soviet Union:

On September 7, the premiere (more…)

Zoya from New York about Kalmykia

The Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni.

The Golden Abode of Buddha Shakyamuni can be seen from everywhere in Elista, regardless of somebody’s location and distance. His Holiness the Dalai Lama IV himself has chosen and blessed the site for its erection. Its grandiose white (more…)

Risen from the ashes of deportation [ Ru ]

December 24, 2013, in Elista, the capital of the Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia, is a concert presentation of ‘Risen from the ashes of deportation’.

Leading Nikolay Sandzhiev 
Chief conductor Savr Kataev 
Soloist Naran Dovdunov

Actors: Danara Shalhanova, Amulang Azydova, Mergen Kim, Elen Kadzhieva, Tatiana Buzyleva, Edward Burlakoff. (more…)

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”. (more…)

Today is the Day of Memory and Grief. December 28 in each Kalmyk family with pain and bitterness recollect loved ones, forever remaining in a cold Siberian land, and with boundless gratitude pay homage to the older generation.

From cold and hunger on the way killed thousands. Thousand Kalmyks soldiers were withdrawn from the front and sent to Soviet concentration camps. (more…)

The monument “Exodus and Return” [ De | Ru | Fr | Es ]

Commemorative monument to the Kalmyk victims of the deportation of 1943.

The monument “Exodus and Return” was opened on 29 December 1996 in memory of the deportation of the Kalmyk people in 1943, and the victims of Stalinist repression. The architect of the monument is Sergey Kurneev, sculptor Ernst Neizvestny. The monument was cast in bronze in New York, USA. (more…)