Samara Volga Region Research Articles

Models of Inter-Ethnic Interaction of Peoples of the Samara Volga Region (on the Example of the Village Bol’shaya Kamenka of Samara Region)

Introduction. For contemporary humanities one of the urgent problems is the study of the interaction and coexistence of people of different nationalities, as well as the transformation of their ethnic identity in the context of constant interethnic contacts. It is especially important to trace these processes in contact zones, in particular in ethnically mixed villages, an example of which is the village of Bol’shaya Kamenka in Samara region. Research Methods. The authors used historical-comparative and structural-functional methods. They made it possible to analyze the transformations of the cultural and linguistic sphere of the ethnic groups under consideration and determine their results. Field studies were conducted in a qualitative paradigm, in the framework of which an empirical interpretation of the concepts associated with the study was carried out. Results. The article discusses the ethno-territorial structure of the settlement, analyzes the processes of interethnic interaction between Russians and Mordvinians, resulting from the types of ethnic self-awareness / identity of people, in particular, such a component as a sense of oneself. The prospects and significance of the model of consolidation (solidarity) of the rural community in the context of both Russian-Mordvinian and interethnic interaction in the Samara Volga are estimated. Discussion and Conclusion. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the result of the long Russian-Mordovian interaction in the village of Bol’shaya Kamenka of the Samara region was a model of consolidation or solidarity of various ethnic groups. It continues to work now. Not only representatives of ethnic groups historically living in the Samara region have the opportunity to join it, but also migrants who moved here relatively recently.

Geographical terms used in reference to the lakes in Moksha-Mordovian dialects of the Samara Bend

Introduction. The article considers geographic terms for lakes and ponds, which can be found in three Moksha-Mordovian dialects of Samara Bend: Tornovoye, Shelekhmet and Bakhilovo. Until now, the geographical vocabulary of these dialects has not been the subject of special study, nor has it been put into academic discourse. The purpose of this study was to describe and to conduct lexico-semantic and etymological analysis of geographical terms used to define ponds and lakes in these dialects. Materials and Methods. The general theoretical and methodological basis of the research consists of the works of national and international researchers. Their subject of research is the toponymy and geographical vocabulary of the Mordovian languages. In lexical terms the work is based on the materials of the author’s field studies conducted in the villages of Tornovoye and Shelekhmet of the Volga region and Bakhilovo of the Stavropol district of the Samara region during the field seasons in 2017 and 2018. When collecting and analyzing linguistic field material, descriptive and comparative methods of linguistic research were used. Results and Discussion. The results of the study showed that the geographical lexemes differ both from the corresponding literary-written Mordovian forms and from the majority of dialect variants. Each of the studied dialects uses its own unique term in these meanings. When comparing limnonymy terms of Moksha dialects of the Samara Bend, with an appropriate geographical terminology of other Mordovian dialects of the Samara Volga region, only the term pandalu found in shelekhmetsky dialect shows full compatibility. The term bua found in tornovsky dialect cannot be found in other Mordovian dialects of the Samara Volga region. Conclusion. The study made it possible to establish that the geographical terms of the Moksha-Mordovian dialects of Samara Bend, used to designate lakes and ponds, have significant differences from the composition of the corresponding terminology of the literary and written Mordovian languages and their dialects, and also significantly differ from dialect to dialect.

Топонимическое пространство мокша-мордовского села Благодаровка Борского района Самарской области

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the toponymic area of the Moksha-Mordovian Blagodarovka village of the Borsky district of the Samara region. The aim of the article is an introduction into scientific discourse and the etymological analysis of toponymic vocabulary of the Blagodarovka village and its outskirts. The methods of the article are based on the principles of toponymic researches formulated in the works of leading Russian onomasticians. The article is based on the author's experience. As a result of the researches, the main characteristics and dialect belonging of the Blagodarovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language were determined, the geographical terminology existing in it was fixed, and the toponymic vocabulary was collected and analyzed. It is concluded that Blagodarovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language, despite a relatively short period of existence in the Russian environment with separation from other Mordovian language areas, is one of the most Russified Mordovian dialects of the Samara Volga region. A number of geographical names of the toponymic area of Blagodarovka find identical or close parallels in most other Moksha-Mordovian and Erzya-Mordovian toponymic areas of the region. The natural and geographical settlement conditions of native Blagodarovsky dialect speakers of the Moksha-Mordovian language as in the case of other Mordovian dialects of the Samara Volga region had a significant impact on the composition and semantics of the geographical terminology that exists in it.

DIALECTS VOCABULARY OF THE AGRICULTURALANDFIELD FARMINGIN TOPONYMICOF SAMARA REGION

The composition and meaning of dialect words, which serve as small areas of the field, forests and meadows are considered. The specifics and geography of the folk termins of agriculture and field farming in the Samara Volga region, their connection with the historical and cultural landscape of the region, is determined. It is noted that microtoponymic is an important source of information about the specifics of regional vocabulary, its links with the Russian dialect vocabulary, as well as the source for regional dictionaries.

Топонимическое пространство эрзя-мордовского села Большая Ёга Самарской области

Pokhvistnevsky District of Samara Oblast and its surroundings, as well as other elements of the toponymic space: geographical vocabulary, toponymic legends. Objective: introduction to scientific circulation, etymological and comparative analysis of toponymic nomenclature of the Erzya-Mordovian village Bolshaya Yoga. Research materials: the study is based on the materials collected and processed by the author during the field seasons 2015, 2018 and 2019 in the village Bolshaya Yoga, as well as in the neighboring Erzya-Mordovian villages of Pokhvistnevsky District of Samara Oblast forming the special Pokhvistnevo ethno-territorial group of the Mordovian people of the Samara Volga region. Results and novelty of the research: the result of the study is the comprehensive analysis of toponymic space of the Erzya-Mordovian village Bolshaya Yoga, including the comparative analysis of geographical vocabulary of the Bolshaya Yoga subdialect of the Erzya-Mordovian language, etymological analysis of the geographical names of the village and its vicinities. Scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that such analysis with regard to the toponymic space of Bolshaya Yoga was completed at the first time; valuable data for researchers of toponyms of Mordovia, Mordovian languages, as well as for professionals in other Finno-Ugric languages are introduced into scientific circulation.

GEOGRAPHICAL TOPONYMIC LEXICON OF THE ERZYA-MORDOVIAN POPULATION OF THE ZAVOLZHIE OF SAMARA REGION

The article introduces into scientific circulation and analyzes several geographical toponymic lexemes that exist in a number of Erzya-Mordovian dialects of the Samara Volga region. The dialects under consideration contain both geographical toponymic lexemes that are typical for most of the Erzya-Mordovian dialects, and lexemes that do not correspond to the geographical lexicon of the Erzya-Mordovian dialects from other territories. The analysis of the geographical terms under consideration is carried out with the involvement of relevant materials from other Moksha-Mordovian and Erzya-Mordovian dialects of the Samara Volga region, Mordovian dialects of neighboring territories, as well as geographical vocabulary recorded in Mordovian dialects on the territory of the Republic of Mordovia. The work is based on materials obtained by the author during field expeditions to the Erzya-Mordovian villages of the Samara region in 2017-2019.

Oxygen–carbon isotope composition of Middle Jurassic–Cretaceous molluscs from the Saratov–Samara Volga region and main climate trends in the Russian Platform–Caucasus

Abstract Oxygen and carbon isotope data from well-preserved mollusc shells and belemnite rostra are presented from the Jurassic (Bathonian, Callovian and Tithonian) and Cretaceous (Aptian, Turonian, Campanian and Maastrichtian) of the Saratov–Samara Volga region, Russia. New data provide information on the resulting trends in palaeoclimate and in palaeoceanography and palaeoecology in the late Mesozoic. Palaeotemperatures calculated from Jurassic–Cretaceous benthic (bivalves and gastropods) and semi-pelagic (ammonites) molluscs are markedly higher than those calculated from pelagic belemnites using oxygen isotopes. This is probably due to various mollusc groups of the Saratov–Samara area inhabiting different depths in the marine basins (e.g. epipelagic v. mesopelagic). Our isotope records, combined with a review of previously published data from shallow-water fossils from the Saratov–Samara area and adjacent regions permits us to infer temperature trends for the epipelagic zone from the Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous in the Russian Platform–Caucasus area. The Jurassic–Cretaceous belemnites from the Russian Platform and the Caucasus have a lower δ 13 C signature than the contemporaneous brachiopods, bivalves and ammonites.

ПРИНЦИПЫ И МЕТОДЫ ТОПОНИМИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ

The article discusses toponymic research methodology. The leading toponymists’ main approaches to the problem of developping the basic methods and principles of toponymy taking into account the interdisciplinary position of the science are outlined. The analysis of various authors’ conceptions used in the collection and processing of toponymic nomenclature is carried out. In conclusion, the author suggests a system of principles and methods of toponymic research developed on the basis of the leading scientists’ opinions in this field, as well as taking into account the experience of his own studies of the Samara Volga region toponymy.

Soil-archaeological characteristic of the archaeological settlement Kalmykovka I in the Samara Volga Region

The paper publishes the results of soil research on the archaeological site the settlement of the Neolithic and Bronze age Kalmykovka I located in the Krasnoyarsk district of the Samara Region. The paper briefly describes the archaeological site. Its cultural identity and the absolute age of the found artifacts are indicated. The morphological studies and analysis of the physical and the chemical properties of the modern soils, soil-forming rocks and cultural archaeological layers were carried out at the key site The taxonomic difference in soils was identified, related to the anthropogenic transformation of the soil in the middle and late Holocene. The physical properties of soils, and in particular, the granulometric composition, acquire lighter fractions in the direction from the watershed to the river terraces and slopes. Such pattern is recorded on other archaeological sites in the Middle Volga Region. The meandering of riverbed and the change in the level of rivers at different time intervals of the Holocene leaded to a change in the granulometric composition of the territory of the riverbed and river terrace. The preliminary results showed that an ancient man accounted for: a geographical location, a landscape exposure, the riverbed and the river level while arranging the settlement Kalmykovka I in different periods of the Holocene. The change in the paleogeographic situation on the given territory from the Middle Holocene to the Late one apparently influenced the river level content of the Sok River and its riverbed, which forced the generations of people to move the settlement deep into the watershed surface.

Актуализация геологического строения рифогенных построек в осевой зоне камско-кинельской системы прогибов на территории Самарского Заволжья на примере Западного купола Южно-Орловского месторождения

Актуализация геологического строения рифогенных построек в осевой зоне камско-кинельской системы прогибов на территории Самарского Заволжья на примере Западного купола Южно-Орловского месторождения