FROM “RUSSIA” TO SIBERIA...: MODERN EXPEDITIONARY NOTES ABOUT THE UDMURTS OF THE KRASNOYARSK KRAI

Abstract

The Udmurts moved to Siberia for two reasons: voluntarily during the Stolypin agrarian reform (1910-1912), and forcedly during the period of dekulakization (30s of the XX century). The settlers got a second homeland and compactly located in the Tomsk oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Three expeditions have been made to the Krasnoyarsk Udmurts so far: in 1974, 1991 and 2020. This article enters new scientific information about the modern state of the folklore tradition of the Udmurt settlers. The material was fixed on audio, photo and video equipment in three districts of the Krasnoyarsk krai: Birilyussky, Bolsheuluysky and Dzerzhinsky. The most of the memories are related to stories about the migration from Udmurtia to the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Special attention was paid to the celebrations and rituals held by local Udmurts. Some song genres were recorded: ritual (wedding, guest, feast) and non-ritual (traditional lyrical, author's and borrowed from the repertoire of neighboring ethnic groups-Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians). The main part of the songs belongs to the north-Udmurt tradition, as most of the performers are representatives of the Igrinsky district of Udmurtia.