Siberians
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Siberians, the Siberiaks (Russian pronunciation: [sibirjaky]) are inhabitants and natives of Siberia, as well as the (sub)ethnic or ethnographic group of the Russians.[1][2]
As demonym[]
The demonym "Siberians" is used for all inhabitants and natives of Siberia, including both indigenous peoples and the European diaspora (the Russians, Ukrainians, Balts, Finnic and other peoples).
As sub-ethnic group[]
In ethnology the term is often used to refer to the old-timers (Starozhily)—the earliest Russian population of Siberia during its Russian conquest in the 16th–17th centuries and their descendants. Later settlers, especially the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, were called "the Russian" (Siberian dialects: "Raseyskie") by the Siberians.[3][2][4]
The dialects of the Siberians were formed mainly on the basis of Northern Russian dialects.[4]
Ideologues of Siberian regionalism (Siberian nationalism) considered the Siberians to be a separate people from the Russians.[5][6] Among contemporary ethnologists there are both opponents[6] and supporters of this point of view.[2][4] In 1918, under the control of the Siberian regionalists, there was a short-term state formation "Siberian Republic".[7]
In the course of 2002 and 2010 Russian Census, the ethnonym "Siberiak" was indicated as the main one by a small number of respondents.[8]
See also[]
Footnotes[]
- ^ Vlasova 1997, p. 114.
- ^ a b c Schweitzer, Vakhtin & Golovko 2005, pp. 135–151.
- ^ Vlasova 1997, p. 114–115.
- ^ a b c Vakhtin, Golovko & Schweitzer 2004.
- ^ Watrous 1993, pp. 113–132.
- ^ a b Vlasova 1997, p. 115.
- ^ Sushko 2009, pp. 174–179.
- ^ Anisimova & Echevskaya 2018.
Bibliography[]
- Anisimova, Alla; Echevskaya, Olga (2018). "Siberian regional identity: self-perception, solidarity, or political claim?". In Edith W. Clowes; Gisela Erbslöh; Ani Kokobobo (eds.). Russia's Regional Identities: The Power of the Provinces. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-20102-6.
- Schweitzer, Peter; Vakhtin, Nikolai; Golovko, Evgeniy (2005). "The Difficulty of Being Oneself: Identity Politics of "Old-Settler" Communities in Northeastern Siberia" (PDF). In Erich Kasten (ed.). Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reformin Post-Soviet Siberia. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. pp. 135–151 – via Siberian-studies.org.
- Sushko, Valentina A. (June 2009). "Сибирский национализм и борьба за власть в крае (март 1917 — ноябрь 1918 г.)" [Siberian nationalism and the struggle for power in the region (March 1917 – November 1918)] (PDF). Вестник Томского государственного университета [ Tomsk State University Bulletin] (in Russian). 323: 174–179. ISSN 1561-7793.
- Vakhtin, Nikolai; Golovko, Eugeniy; Schweitzer, Peter (2004). Русские старожилы Сибири: социальные и символические аспекты самосознания [Russian Old-Settlers of Siberia: Social and Symbolic Aspects of Identity] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: Novoe izdatel’stvo. ISBN 5-98379-005-6.
- Vlasova, Irina V. (1997). "Русские в Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке" [The Russians in Siberia and the Far East]. In Alexandrov, V.A.; Vlasova, I.V.; Polishchuk, N.S. (eds.). Русские [The Russians] (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka. pp. 114–117. ISBN 5-02-010320-9. (N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS).
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Watrous, Stephen (1993). "The Regionalist Conception of Siberia, 1860 to 1920". In Diment, Galya; Slezkine, Yuri (eds.). Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 113–132. ISBN 978-0-312-06072-5.
- Ethnic groups in Siberia
- Russian sub-ethnic groups