In the article dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Tuva's voluntary entry into the USSR and the RSFSR in October 1944, the author's attention is focused on revealing three main aspects of this truly fateful event for Tuva - its voluntariness, legality and timeliness. It also notes the speculative approach of liberal authors to covering these issues without strong reliance on sources. The author notes the lack of study by the predecessors of a number of important aspects and details of the problem, and a more indepth study was undertaken, including with the involvement of new sources (periodicals and archival documents). The conclusions of the Russian authors on the voluntariness, legality and timeliness of Tuva's entry into the Soviet Union and Russia were confirmed and strengthened in the article.
In this article, the author, based on his previous articles and new publications about the collector of Tuvan folklore O. K.-C. Darym, for the first time provides a generalized scientific analysis of the material he collected. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the multifaceted activities of O.K.-C. Daryma should be considered in the system of traditional culture of the Tuvan people and continue to study their heritage from the point of view of new approaches of modern folklore.
The article is devoted to the analysis of foreign-language names of measures in the corpus of 64 published Tuvan heroic tales. The composition of 17 lexical units with orthographic and phonetic variants, as well as with derivatives recorded in the texts, is determined. It was revealed that 6 units are obsolete, 8 are found only in the language of folklore, 3 are not recorded in the lexicographic sources of the Tuvan language and in works on Tuvan lexicology. A significant part of the analyzed lexical units is unknown to modern native speakers. In most cases, the source language and the intermediary language from the Chinese and East Tocharian languages is Mongolian, 4 units are borrowed from the Russian language. The names of measures are divided into five semantic groups: measures of length and distance; measures of fabric; measures of volume; measures of weight and cost; measures of time. It is concluded that foreign language vocabulary in the language of Tuvan folklore requires further study and description by means and methods of linguafolklore studies and linguacultural studies.