Margaret McKibben : Partnership for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Folklore

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Russian Cossacks of Kazakhstan

Centuries ago, this was a Cossack military outpost, part of Imperial Russia’s project to expand its influence in east Asia. The Russian border eventually shifted 60 miles to the north.... Read More

Rachel Ulrich

Statistical Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory Rachel earned an M.S. in Statistics from Montana State University and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky. During her undergraduate... Read More

Settlers of the Steppe

The village of Uspenka, on the Kulundinskaja steppe, was settled by Ukrainian migrants who came here in search of land and a better life during the Russian Empire’s Stolypin land... Read More

Brightly-painted tradition Russia log house

Old Russian Ways in East Kazakhstan

Since the days of Imperial Russia, remote river valleys of the Altai mountains have sheltered runaway serfs, escaped prisoners and Old Believer religious dissidents. On the banks of the... Read More

Refuge in a land of honey

In the days of Imperial Russia, in these borderlands, villages along the Bukhtarma river sheltered runaway serfs, escaped prisoners, Old Believer religious dissidents and other refugees from the Russian government.... Read More

Maranda Wilkinson

Korean War Legacy Foundation Senior Fellow Maranda Wilkinson is a former middle school Social Studies teacher, Curriculum and Instruction Coach, and STEM Curriculum Specialist for the Franklin County School District... Read More

Dr. Tatiana Savelieva

Associate Professor, Department of Philology. Chelyabinsk State University, Miass branch Special interests: neo-mythology, mechanisms of mythologization and sacralization of space. Dr. Savelieva has led folklore students into the field on... Read More

Author: Margaret McKibben