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http:\/\/www.altai-republic.ru\/<\/a><\/p>\n *As of 2025, due to increased censorship and restrictions, some links may not be available. We are consistently monitoring access and updating links as necessary.<\/p>\n <\/a>The Oirot Autonomous Oblast’, was established in 1922.\u00a0In 1948, it was renamed the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast\u2019. In 1990, it received the status of Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and in 1992 it became the Altai Republic within the Russian Federation. The Republic is located at the junction of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and the Siberian taiga.\u00a0Its capital is Gorno-Altaisk. Altai is a Turkic language, and until 1948, it was named Oirot.<\/p>\n This is a beginning guide to bibliographic tools for researchers of Altai. Though not a comprehensive overview, this guide outlines three primary ways researchers can access bibliographic information about Altai publications:<\/p>\n Additionally, this guide highlights several other resources related to Altai history, culture, language, and national bibliography.\u00a0Researchers may also want to consult the following online database for additional coverage: Elektronnyi katalog knig na iazykakh narodov RF i stran SNG <\/a> on the homepage of the the Russian National Library.<\/p>\n Sources: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 1, pp 303, 458-462); the Official Altai State Website<\/a>; Ethnologue<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Russian National Library’s Department of Literature in National Languages [also known as the Department of National Literatures] of the Russian Federation, Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Baltic countries has reproduced holdings catalogs in microfiche format. The national languages imprints catalogs in microfiche format diffuse most of the difficulties associated with transliteration in the vernacular languages, spelling, forms of entry, and uncertainties with the entirety of the collection.\u00a0 Researchers can access the entire holdings for a specific language at the Russian National Library through the microfiche set; conveniently exporting selected titles via PDF scans. The following scans reflect some of the Altai language holdings available in microfiche format.<\/p>\n Letopis’ pechati <\/em> is a bibliography that lists all publications in the Republic of Altai for each year (since 2002) in the following categories: books, brochures and periodicals. The National Library of the Republic of Altai has the letopisi pechati<\/em> for 2002-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2011, and 2013-2016\u00a0<\/a>available electronically on their website. These documents can be downloaded as PDF or Word files. Note that not all the l<\/em>etopis’ pechati <\/em> files are labeled according to the year, and users may need to open document in order to view the year of coverage. To read these documents, users may need to install the font, “Altai<\/a>.” Through WorldCat, users can also find editions of the letopis’ pechati<\/em>\u00a0of Altai in\u00a0physical (OCLC accession number 154723758) and digital form (OCLC accession number 619278788).<\/p>\n Entry information for items listed in the l<\/em>etopis’ pechati <\/em> includes: a general classification number given at the beginning of the section, a consecutive entry number, author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, pagination, illustrations, size, serial statement, ISBN, number of copies printed, price, government registration number, e.g. [94-1546] and other necessary bibliographic information for citations. <\/span>Please note that due to maintenance issue this website may time out, but this can be corrected by refreshing the page. <\/span><\/p>\n The following two newspapers (among others) were published in Altai during the soviet period: Altaiskaia pravda <\/em> (began in 1917) and Molodezh Altaia <\/em> (began in 1920). Users can consult Gazety SSSR 1917-1960: Bibliograficheskii spravochnik 5 <\/a> <\/em> for a list of newspapers published in Altai during these years. (Source: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 1, p. 303)).<\/p>\n The Altaiskaia kraevaia universal’naia biblioteka im. V.Ia. Shishkova has developed the website “Elektronnye resursy Altaia<\/a>“.\u00a0The website seeks to serve as a platform for libraries, museums, theatres, researchers, and other parties, and is meant to increase the interest in the local history of the republic. It provides\u00a0access to a large number of materials from and about Altai, such as books, bibliographies, and maps. The page \u201cKnigi Altaia v nalichii i pechati\u201d provides knizhnye letopisi for all the books published in the Republic for the years 2001-2018 that users can search by theme. The “kalendary znamenatel’nykh dat” gives access to PDF documents of overviews of important dates and events in Altai for a given year since 1971 (with a few editions missing). Lastly, the website provides information about important individuals in Altai literature, monuments, culture and art, and an overview of publications by researchers of the Shishkov Library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The main archive in the Altai Republic is the Altaiskii Krai State Archive. The collections of this archive contain more than 2.4 million documents in more than 6800 fonds. The documents cover the period 1744-2012.\u00a0On the archive\u2019s website<\/a>, users can find information about its collections, services, projects, and materials that are available online.\u00a0In the online database<\/a>, users can search by title words, item number, year of publication, and specific sections of the archive.\u00a0The archive\u2019s online materials<\/a> include:<\/p>\n The Committee of Archives of the Altai Republic has also created an online resource, the Electronic Archive of the Altai Republic<\/a>. It provides a collection of digitized materials provided by the archives of the Altai republic, in order to make them more widely accessible. In the section \u201cPublikatsii<\/a>\u201d, users can find an overview of publications about specific archival collections of Altai for recent years.<\/p>\n The official state languages in the Altai Republic are Altai and Russian. Altai is a Turkic language, and is also referred to as Oirot, Oyrot, Northern Altai, Southern Altai, Telengit, Telengut, and Teleut. Until 1922, the Altai written language was based on the Cyrillic script, between 1928-1938 on the Latin script, and since 1938 it uses the Cyrillic script again. Aside from the letters of the Russian alphabet, it has nine additional characters: \u0408\u0458, \u04a4\u04a5, \u04e6\u04e7, \u04f0\u04f1, \u0492\u0493, \u049a\u049b, \u04ba\u04bb, \u04b8\u04b9, and Ii. Users interested in working with vernacular languages\u00a0can download a Cyrillic extended keyboard<\/a> that can be used for Altai and many of the other languages of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n Sources:\u00a0Ethnologue;\u00a0<\/a>Altaiskaia pis’mennost’<\/a>.<\/p>\n http:\/\/nbra.ru\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n
<\/a> LIBRARY CATALOGS<\/h2>\n
Katalog literatury na Altaiskom (Oirotskom) yazyke [microform]\u00a0Rossii\u0306skai\ufe20a\ufe21 nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nai\ufe20a\ufe21 biblioteka. Otdel literatury na nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nykh i\ufe20a\ufe21zykakh.<\/h3>\n
New York : N. Ross, 1997.\u00a0U\u00a0of I Library Call Number:\u00a0MFICHE 016.9573 R736k2.\u00a0Location: International and Area Studies Library, Microfilm Room. OCLC Accession Number: 39971625.<\/h4>\n
<\/a>\u00a0General resources<\/h2>\n
Letopis’ pechati\u00a0<\/em>and publishing in Altai<\/h3>\n
Newspapers and periodicals<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
Elektronnye resursy Altaia<\/h4>\n
Archival materials<\/h3>\n
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Language and keyboard<\/h3>\n
<\/a> ONLINE RESOURCES<\/h2>\n
<\/a> Natsional’naia biblioteka Respubliki Altai im. Mikhaila Vasil’evicha Chevalkova<\/h3>\n
<\/a> Electronic Library<\/h3>\n