Culture: Kalmyk folklore

Kalmyk translator Danara Balaeva-Kokaeva published Kalmyk fairy tales in English on the global Internet, the KalmykiaNews reports. (more…)

Parade of Friendship of Peoples
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June, 12 at Elista!

Program:
1) Shamanic rituals
2) Lecture “Traditions of the mysterious Kalmyk people”
3) Concert
4) Parade
5) The spectacular show (more…)

The review of the recent published book “I will follow you, Tibet…” [ Ru ]

“I will follow you, Tibet…” is the title of the book that was published in Elista in March, 2015. The author of the book is Deelvreen Okn (Olzeeva Elena Victorovna). Her name can be translated from Kalmyk into English as “the daughter of victory”. The writer describes (more…)

The Kalmyks, the only Buddhist people in Europe, are the farthest north-western believers in Buddha. After fifty years of persecution of their traditional religious faith, as a result of the process of democratisation started in the country in the mid 80s of the 20th c., they had an oppotunity to regain their spiritual world which had developed for nearly eight hundred years under the influence of Buddhist teaching. People of different generations turn to their traditional faith, rite and deities.
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As many respected scholars of Oriental studies suppose – Kalmykia is the second birthplace of fairy tales after India. And for good reasons.

We have many stories of different genres: heroic tales (baatrlgch tuuls), magic tales (sidtya tuuls), everyday stories and many others! Kalmyk Folklore is really rich.

And our the most important heritage is, of course, as many of you have probably guessed, the epos “Djangar“! (more…)

In 2013 will be 70-year anniversary of the tragedy of the small Kalmyk people.

December 28, 1943 the Kalmyk people suffered genocide by the Soviet Union.

Genocide is the ultimate crime against humanity.

Children, women and old men were sent to Siberia in cold railcars. (more…)

New Years Eve Party in New Jersey, USA

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New Years Eve Party

December 31 2012
8:00 pm to 1:00 Am

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HORS D’OEUVRES * BUFFET DINNER * CHAMPAGNE TOAST * CASH BAR (more…)

About new sport complex [ Ru ]

December, 11 Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Alexei Orlov visited Chernozemelsky district of Kalmykia. In the village Adyk Alexey Orlov took part in solemn opening sports complex, reported Kalmyk White House.

This sports complex was built by the Kalmyk breeding farm “Pervomaysky” (member of the People’s Khural of the Republic of Kalmykia, director of breeding farm “Pervomaysky” Valery Boldyrev), as well (more…)

European tourists have meeting with simple kalmykian people near KGB office in blessed Kalmykia, write KalmykiaTour paper.

European tourists learned stories about Soviet Union and soviet period. (more…)

During his second visit to Kalmykia (Elista) in September 1992 His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama said, “The aim of my visit is to establish harmony: harmony with the environment, harmony among religions, harmony in the society and family and, – in the end, harmony of a man with his own self. I am stressing a great importance of this because everything depends on harmony in the world”.

All traditional beliefs co-exist organically in the Kalmyk society. Reviving national culture (more…)