{"id":7779,"date":"2017-07-16T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/?page_id=7779"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:22:25","slug":"natbibkalmykia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slavic\/spx\/slavicresearchguides\/nationalbib\/natbibkalmykia\/","title":{"rendered":"National Bibliography of Kalmykiia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/aboutus\/\">About Us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/collectionhighlights\/\">Collections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/srs\/\">Slavic Reference Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Research Guides \" href=\"http:\/\/www.library.uiuc.edu\/ias\/spx\/slavicresearchguides\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/visitingscholars\/\">Visiting Scholars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ias\/spx\/conferences\/\">Events and News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*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<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a>\u00a0The Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast&#8217; was created in 1920, and in 1992, it was granted the status of <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.kalmregion.ru\/\">Republic of Kalmykiia<\/a> within the Russian Federation. Its capital is Elista. The official languages in the republic are Kalmyk and Russian. Kalmyk is a Mongolic language.<\/p>\n<p>This is a beginning guide to bibliographic tools for researchers of Kalmykiia.\u00a0Though not a comprehensive overview, this guide outlines\u00a0three primary ways researchers can access bibliographic information about Kalmyk publications:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Through the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?query=any,contains,Rossi%C4%ADskai%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1%20nat%EF%B8%A0s%EF%B8%A1ional%CA%B9nai%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1%20biblioteka%20Otdel%20literatury%20nat%EF%B8%A0s%EF%B8%A1ional%CA%B9nykh%20i%EF%B8%A0a%EF%B8%A1zykakh&amp;tab=LibraryCatalog&amp;search_scope=MyInstitution&amp;vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;lang=en&amp;offset=0\"> Russian National Library&#8217;s Department of Literature in National Languages imprint catalog<\/a><br \/>\n(2) Through the <a href=\"http:\/\/kalmnlib.ru\/\"> National Library of the Republic of Kalmykiia online library catalog<\/a><br \/>\n(3) The\u00a0<em>letopis&#8217; pechati\u00a0<\/em>and national bibliography of Kalmykiia<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this guide highlights other resources related to the history, culture, language, and publishing in Kalmykiia. Researchers may also want to consult the following online database for additional coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlr.ru\/rlin\/ruslbr_v3.php?database=ONL2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Elektronnyi katalog knig na iazykakh narodov RF i stran SNG <\/a> from the Russian National Library. <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> This guide also highlights\u00a0online resources\u00a0including the\u00a0Kalmyk National Library webpage\u00a0and the<a href=\"https:\/\/kalmnlib.ru\/articles\/elektronnaja-biblioteka\"> electronic library of the National Library of the Republic of Kalmykiia.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 11, page 367); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ethnologue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"catalogs\"><\/a> LIBRARY CATALOGS<\/h2>\n<h3>Natsional&#8217;naia biblioteka imeni A.M. Amur-Sanana Respubliki Kalmykiia<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalmnlib.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/www.kalmnlib.ru\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The electronic catalog (<a href=\"http:\/\/kalmnlib.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elektronnyi katalog<\/a>) has no information about its coverage, but is assumed to reflect the holdings at the National Library of the Republic of Kalmykiia. <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> Users have the option of the basic, advanced and professional searches. Under the advanced option they can search by document type, author, title, serial, BBK, key word, ISSN, ISBN, collection and other search terms. Users can also organize the results by title, author and other identifiers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The results give basic bibliographic information as well as information about the location and availability of specific holdings.<\/p>\n<h3><a name=\"imprint\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01CARLI_UIU\/gpjosq\/alma99688280112205899\">Katalog literatury na Kalmytskom yazyke [microform]<\/a> Rossii\u0306skai\ufe20a\ufe21 nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nai\ufe20a\ufe21 biblioteka. Otdel literatury na nat\ufe20s\ufe21ional\u02b9nykh i\ufe20a\ufe21zykakh<\/h3>\n<h4>New York: N. Ross, 1997. U of I Library Call Number:\u00a0MFICHE 016.942 R736k. <strong style=\"font-size: 1em\"> Location <\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 1em\"> : International and Area Studies Library, Microfilm Room. <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1em\">OCLC Accession Number<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">: <\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 1em\"> 39970842. <\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Russian National Library&#8217;s Department of Literature in National Languages [also known as the Department of National Literatures] of the Russian Federation,\u00a0Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Baltic countries has reproduced holdings catalogs in microfiche format.\u00a0The 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.\u00a0Researchers 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.\u00a0The following scans reflect some of the Kalmyk-language holdings available in microfiche format.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"imprint_kalmyk_1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/media\/nationalbib\/images\/kalmykia_images\/kalmyk_1.jpg\" alt=\"Scanned card from Kalmykia imprint catalog example 1\" width=\"356\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt Text: Example of a bibliographic entry in microfiche format.<\/p>\n<h3><i>Letopis&#8217; pechati\u00a0<\/i>and national bibliography in Kalmykiia<\/h3>\n<p>In 1968, the National Library of Kalmykiia began to fulfill role of Book Chamber for the republic. In 2002, a specialized Center for national bibliography was created to take on this responsibility. The Center for national bibliography creates an archive for local documents and publications, and it compiles national bibliographies and statistics of publications in Kalmykiia. The electronic catalog of the Center for national bibliography of Kalmykiia includes more than 60,000 bibliographic records for books, articles in journals and newspapers, and other materials. Bibliographic records for materials in Kalmyk are accessible in the electronic database of the Center for national bibliography. The Center\u2019s collection includes more than 9,300 books, pamphlets and journals.<\/p>\n<p>The Center publishes an annual <em>l<\/em><em>etopis\u2019 pechati <\/em>for Kalmykiia; each quarter, it publishes a bulletin with new books; and it compiles and publishes a retrospective national bibliography.\u00a0Through WorldCat, users can find issues of the <em>letopis\u2019 pechati<\/em> in physical (OCLC accession number 33271286) and electronic form (OCLC accession number 610018130).<\/p>\n<h4>Newspapers<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 16.9px\">In 1971, <\/span> <span style=\"line-height: 1.3em\"> 87 books and pamphlets (431,000 copies), nine magazines (23,000 copies annually) and 15 newspapers (71,791,000 copies annually) were published in Kalmykiia. The following is a list of Republic newspapers, including the date in which they began publication and the language of publication: <\/span> <em> Khal&#8217;mg unn <\/em> (began in 1920) in Kalmyk; <em> Sovetskaia Kalmykiia <\/em> (began in 1920) in Russian; and <em> Komsomolets Kalmykii <\/em> (began in 1929) in Russian. Another periodical is <em>Teegin gerl<\/em> (1957) which is a literature and arts anthology published in Russian and Kalmyk. Users can consult <em> <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/media\/nationalbib\/gazetyssr_pdfs\/kalmyk_news.pdf\"> Gazety SSSR 1917-1960: Bibliograficheskii spravochnik 5<\/a> <\/em> for a list of newspapers published in Kalmykiia between 1917 and 1960.<\/p>\n<div>Source: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Volume 11, page 367); Natsional&#8217;naia biblioteka im. A.M. Amur-Sanana Respubliki Kalmykiia, &#8220;Tsentr natsional&#8217;noi bibliografii&#8221;.<\/div>\n<h2><a name=\"online\"><\/a> ONLINE RESOURCES<\/h2>\n<h3>Elektronnaia biblioteka<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalmnlib.ru\/articles\/elektronnaja-biblioteka\">http:\/\/www.kalmnlib.ru\/articles\/elektronnaja-biblioteka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The electronic library of the National Library of the Republic of Kalmykiia contains 1,395 items in its historical and ethnographic collection of documents from the 18th to the 20th century. Unfortunately, at this time, U\u00a0of I patrons do not have access to the full-text documents of the digitized holdings. However, U\u00a0of I patrons can browse the holdings and their bibliographic information according to the following themes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natural sciences<\/li>\n<li>Agriculture and forestry<\/li>\n<li>Health and medicine<\/li>\n<li>History<\/li>\n<li>Economy<\/li>\n<li>Policy<\/li>\n<li>Constitutional law<\/li>\n<li>Warfare<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Nature<\/li>\n<li>Math<\/li>\n<li>Geography<\/li>\n<li>History and social sciences<\/li>\n<li>Russian language<\/li>\n<li>Kalmyk language<\/li>\n<li>Literature<\/li>\n<li>Folklore<\/li>\n<li>Poetry<\/li>\n<li>Prose<\/li>\n<li>Fiction in Kalmyk<\/li>\n<li>References<\/li>\n<li>Art<\/li>\n<li>Religion<\/li>\n<li>Periodicals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Academy of Sciences of Kalmykiia<\/h3>\n<p>The Kalmyk branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the major research institutions of the republic. On the institute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kigiran.com\/\">website<\/a>, users can find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kigiran.com\/research_directions\">different subdivisions of the institute and their research focus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/kigiran.com\/publications\">database<\/a> that allows users to search publications of researchers of the institute since the 1960s, and full-text access to recent publications<\/li>\n<li>Recent issues of the institute\u2019s journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kigiran.elpub.ru\/jour\"><em>Oriental Studies\u00a0<\/em>(Vestnik KIGI RAN)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Language and keyboard<\/h3>\n<p>Kalmyk is a Mongolic language and also referred to as <span style=\"line-height: 16.9px\"> European Oirat, Kalmack, Kalmuck, Kalmuk, Kalmytskii Jazyk, Khalli, Oirat, Qalmaq, Volga Oirat, Western Mongolian and Kalmyk-Oirat. Until the seventeenth century, the Kalmyk written language was based on the Old Mongolic script and until 1924, on the Clear Script (Bichig, related to the Mongolic script). Between 1924 and 1930, the Latin script was officially adopted, and since 1938, the Kalmyk written language has been based on the Cyrillic script. In addition to the letters of the Russian alphabet, the Kalmyk alphabet includes the letters\u00a0\u018f \u04d9,\u00a0\u04ba \u04bb,\u00a0\u0496 \u0497,\u00a0\u04a2 \u04a3,\u00a0\u04e8 \u04e9, and \u04ae \u04af.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Users who are interested in using vernacular languages in their research, can\u00a0download a <a href=\"https:\/\/chuvash.eu\/2015\/01\/03\/creating-a-russian-extended-keyboard-layout\/\">Cyrillic extended keyboard<\/a> that can be used for Kalmyk and many of the other languages of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethnologue;\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C\">Kalmytskaia pis&#8217;mennost&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us Collections Slavic Reference Service Research Resources Visiting Scholars Events and News *As of 2025, due to increased censorship and restrictions, some links may not be available. 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