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Vasiliy V. Ushnitskiy

Vasiliy V. Ushnitskiy
Location:
Russia, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk
Email:
ubb1964@mail.ru
Identifier:
eLIBRARY AuthorID
459077
Organization
Institute for Humanitarian Research and North Indigenous Peoples Problems of the Siberian Branch of the RAS
Abbreviated: IHRNIPP SB RAS
Russia, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk
ROR: Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North
https://ror.org/04xnqnd94 Facility http://www.igi.ysn.ru/
Author details are current as of June 15, 2026
Cand. of Sci. (History)
Author details are current as of June 15, 2026

Publications by the Author

1 publications
ABOUT THE TERM “URAANGKHAI” IN YAKUT FOLKLORE
Issue: №1(1), 2022 Section: Ethnography Pages: 111-117 Views: 10 PDF downloads: 4

ABOUT THE TERM “URAANGKHAI” IN YAKUT FOLKLORE

This article examines the existence and meaning of the term “Uraankhgai” in the Yakut folklore. The word “Uraankhgai” is an old self-name of the Sakha people. The ancient legends tell about the ancestral home of the Sakha people - Uraangkhai. The article deals with the historiography of the seeking for this ancestral home of the Sakha. The term “Uraankhgai” in the historical memory of the Sakha is associated with the Turkic-Mongolian area. At the same time, there were seekings for the roots of the ethnonym “Uraangkhai” in the Samoyed and Tungus-Manchu ethnic environment. Separately, the Sakha legends about the arrival of the Uraangkhai tribe from the south are analyzed.

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