Aleksandr displays three pieces of art that he produced. The first piece is an engraving of a camel and a nomad that he calls 'Loyalty to the steppe. The Iki Chonos or the Big...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 9 Mar 2016

This video features an art exhibition held in Elista in May 2018. Artists who are interviewed include Alexandr Povaev, Mergen Moshuldaev, Syugir Buluktaev, and Tsebek Aduchiev...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 22 Apr 2019

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 30 Aug 2017

This video features an exhibition of traditional handicrafts held at the National Museum in Elista in April 2015.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Fri 27 Jan 2017

Galina and Sergei Kotinovs are Kalmyk artists who live and work in St Petersburg. The photos in this video were taken at their art exhibition called ‘From the city to the steppe...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 25 Jan 2017

After graduating from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Galina and her husband Sergei moved to Kalmykia where they spent 15 years. There Galina produced...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 12 Oct 2016

Alexandr was born in 1948 in the village of Podsosnovoe in Altaiskiy krai. Upon their return from Siberia the family settled in the village of Shin-Mer. In the beginning, they...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 15 Aug 2016

Mergen says that the state today does not support artists in Kalmykia.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 11 Sep 2018

Mergen makes whistles from clay in the form of animals, such as a horse, a wolf and a lamb. Recently he has been making camel-whistles, and to associate them with the Kalmyk...

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Tue 11 Sep 2018

Sergei is an artist. He was born in Elista but moved to Leningradskaya oblast’ in 2009 where now he runs an art studio, Red Star, with his wife Galina.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Wed 12 Oct 2016

Svetlana talks about her father, the famous Kalmyk artist Garya Rokchinskiy.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 3 Sep 2018

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Mon 13 Nov 2017

Tsebek talks about himself.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Sat 25 Aug 2018

In this interview Viktor Urgadulov, a Kalmyk artist, talks about himself, art in the Soviet Union and its current state in Kalmykia.

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Sat 8 Apr 2017

Collection: Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Project (ART)

Institution: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

Created: Fri 20 Oct 2017