The Book about the Origin of the Yakuts and their Traditional Culture

The author reviews the monograph of A.I. Gogolev “The Origin of the Sakha people and their traditional culture” (2018), the study of the ethnogenesis of the Yakut people (native name — Sakha) and the origins of their material and spiritual culture. For the sources, the author of the book used archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic and historical data of the entire Central Asia and Far Eastern area, as well as the adjacent and remote areas. A.I. Gogolev studied particularly carefully the area of Central Lena, because that area has become ethnic forming for the people of Sakha. The author discovered the Scythian-Siberian, ancient Altai and Hunnic roots of the Sakha culture, traced the formation of its basis under the infl uence of ancient and medieval Turkic tribes of Southern Siberia, Central Asia and the Baikal region. In the latter respect, A.I. Gogolev paid special attention to the historical and cultural ties of the Yakuts with the Turkic-speaking peoples of Southern Siberia and the Buryats. The researchers face the new challenges: to achieve fi nal clarity on the question who were ethnically the indigenous aborigines of the Middle Lena, to determine what impact on the spiritual and material culture of the Yakuts had the oldest religion — Tengrism, and to study more thoroughly the origins of the writing of the Sakha people.

A.I. Gogolev, Ethnogenesis of the Sakha People (Yakuts), Traditional Culture, Origins of Writing, Yakut Petroglyphs, Tengrism

1. Gogolev A.I. Proiskhozhdenie naroda sakha i ego traditsionnoi kul’tury [Origin of Sakha People and Their Traditional Culture]. Yakutsk, 2018, 253 p.

2. Gogolev A.I. Istoricheskaya etnografiya yakutov [Historical Ethnography of the Yakuts: tutorial]. Yakutsk, YaGU Publ., 1980, 108 p.

3. Gogolev A.I. Istoricheskaya etnografiya yakutov: Narodnye znaniya i obychnoe pravo [Historical Ethnography of the Yakuts: Traditional Knowledge and Customary Law: tutorial]. Yakutsk, YaGU Publ., 1983, 103 p.

4. Gogolev A.I. Arkheologicheskie pamyatniki Yakutii pozdnego srednevekov’ya (14—18 vv.) [Archaeological Monuments of Yakutia of the Late Middle Ages (14—18 Centuries)]. Irkutsk: Izd-vo Irkut. un-ta Publ., 1990, 188 p.

5. Gogolev A.I. Istoricheskaya etnografiya yakutov: (Voprosy proiskhozhdeniya yakutov) [Historical Ethnography of the Yakuts: (Issues of the Yakuts Origin)]. Yakutsk, YaGU Publ., 1986, 91 p.

6. Gogolev A.I. Istoriya Yakutii: (Obzor istoricheskikh sobytii do nachala 20 v.) [History of Yakutia: Review of Historical Events Before the Beginning of the 20 Century)]. Yakutsk, YaGU Publ., 2000, 201 p.

7. Gogolev A.I. Yakuty: (Problemy etnogeneza i formirovaniya kul’tury) [Yakuts: Problems of Ethnogenesis and Formation of Culture]. Yakutsk, YaGU Publ., 1993, 200 p.

8. Gogolev A.I., Burtsev A.A. Yakutskoe olonkho v kontekste mifologii i epicheskoi poezii narodov Evrazii [Yakut olonkho in the Context of Mythology and Epic Poetry of the Peoples of Eurasia]. Yakutsk, Sfera Publ., 2012, 75 p.

9. Gogolev A.I. Lektsii po istoricheskoi etnografii yakutov. Ch. 2: Istoricheskaya etnografiya yakutov [Lectures on the Historical Ethnography of the Yakuts: Tutorial for Students of History and Philology]. Yakutsk, 1980, 108 p.

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11. Gogolev A.I. Traditsionnyi kalendar’ yakutov [Traditional Calendar of the Yakuts]. Yakutsk, 1999, 71 p.

12. Gogolev A.I. Istoriya Yakutii: ucheb. posobie dlya studentov gumanitarnykh spetsial’nostei vuzov regiona [History of Yakutia: Tutorial for Students of Humanitarian Sciences in Yakutia Region]. Yakutsk, Izd. dom Sev.-Vost. federal’nogo un-ta im. M.K. Ammosova Publ., 2015, 290 p.

13. Sibagatullin F.S. Ot Atilly do Prezidenta. Kniga 2. Legendy i mify religii [From Atilla to the President. Book 2. Legends and Myths of Religions]. Kazan, Idel-Press Publ., 2009, 207 p.