The Tsimlyansk Sea in the Narratives of the Inhabitants of the Submerged (Relocated) Stanitsi Cover Image
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Цимлянското море в разказите на жителите на потопените (преселени) станици
The Tsimlyansk Sea in the Narratives of the Inhabitants of the Submerged (Relocated) Stanitsi

Author(s): Olga Belova
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Archaeology, Economy, Literary Texts, Cultural history, Psychology, Museology & Heritage Studies, Customs / Folklore, Media studies, Poetry, Geography, Regional studies, National Economy, Library and Information Science, Business Economy / Management, Agriculture, Energy and Environmental Studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Governance, Communication studies, Sociology, Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Theology and Religion, Economic policy, Environmental and Energy policy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication, Social psychology and group interaction, Social development, Demography and human biology, Human Ecology, Rural and urban sociology, Political Ecology, Sociology of Culture, Economic development, Environmental interactions, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Migration Studies, Socio-Economic Research, History of Religion, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: oral history; folk narrative; Tsimlyansk Dam; submerging; local memorial culture

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the plot-motive content and genre structure of the oral narratives (memories) about the submerging of the Don stanitsi [stations] in connection with the construction of the Tsimlyansk Dam in the middle of the 20th century. The focal points of the narratives about submerging are: the loss of the ‘small homeland’ as a result of the catastrophe, the eschatological experiences, the miraculous ‘return’ of the submerged territories and objects (in visions and in reality, depending on natural phenomena). The narratives about the submerging from the Don region demonstrate a typological similarity with texts from other regions of the former USSR, which allows us to speak of a separately developed genre of modern verbal folklore.

  • Issue Year: XLVIII/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 454-474
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bulgarian