Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
| Created: | 2015-03-31 15:15 |
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| Institution: | Department of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Description: | A supplementary branch of the traditional economy, fishing in the past was usually undertaken by impoverished Kalmyks who were in need of an additional source of income or food. By the eighteenth century work migration to the lower Volga began to take on a mass character. At the fisheries Kalmyks did two types of work. Those who were employed as fishermen went to the sea in groups of three or four on small boats called ongts. They used nets of various designs, including drift net (golm) fyke net (tyavdg golm), seine (shuugul) as well as fishing rods (gakhul'). Other Kalmyks were employed on land to cut, wash, clean, salt, and dry fish. At the turn of the nineteenth century fisheries had become the major source of employment for many Kalmyks living along the banks of the Volga and the Caspian Sea. Depending upon their financial situation, Kalmyks engaged in fishing could be divided into three groups – free, contracted, and hired fishermen. In the Soviet period, the Kalmyk fisheries were state-supported enterprises.
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Media items
This collection contains 13 media items.
Media items
Alexei Naranov, About Fishing and Fish Products
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 7 Aug 2017
Anatoliy Safinov, About Fishing
Anatoliy talks about his father-in-law who was a fisherman who could make and fix fishing nets. His father-in-law was a respected man, a diligent worker, and was often invited to...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 27 Sep 2015
Baatr Bastaev, About Rituals Performed by Fishermen
Baatr says he participated in a ritual of worshipping the spiritual masters of water. Before the opening of a fishing season, the fishermen perform this ritual in which a raft is...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sat 26 Aug 2017
Badma Koldaev, About Fishing
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sun 22 Apr 2018
Danil and Sergei Orusovs, About Fishing in the Past
Danil and Sergei say that before World War II rivers in Kalmykia were full of fish. Fishing brigades went fishing in the spring or autumn and handed over their catch to fish...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 11 Jul 2019
Dzhidzha Araeva, About How People Went Fishing in My Childhood
This is Dzhidzha’s story: I did not go fishing myself, but my mother did. During World War Two people used nets for fishing. They stretched their nets and left them until they...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 14 May 2018
Galina Tserenova, About Fishing and Fish Dishes
Galina talks about fish varieties that people from her native village caught and about fish dishes.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Fri 7 Apr 2017
Harvan Sundetov, The Fishery
Harvan is a fisherman. His father and grandfather also worked in this trade. Harvan has been fishing since he was 18. He worked in a sovkhoz called Krasnyi Moryak (Red Sailor)....
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 20 May 2015
Konstantin Naktanov, About Fishing
In the past, in Lagan’ the Kalmyks lived in small aimaks, including the Tsoomg, Tsyadr, Khar-Khol et. The Kalmyks went fishing on big boats to the Caspian sea and transported the...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 7 Jun 2016
Leonid Khochiev, About Fishing
Leonid talks about fishing among the Kalmyks.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Fri 27 Jul 2018
Sangadji Tarbaev, About the Village of Dzhalykovo
Sangadzhi reminisces about his uncle who used to go fishing in the Caspian Sea. His uncle’s house in the village of Dzhalykovo always smelled of fish. Their food included black...
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 5 Sep 2017
Sergei Olzeev, About Fishing
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Thu 26 Apr 2018
Ubush Sangadzhiev, About Fishing
Ubush talks about how people went fishing in his childhood. He reminisces about people using fishing rods made from reed. Locusts were used as a bate.
Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (FISHING)
Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 30 Apr 2018