Who are Finno-Ugric people?
The Finno-Ugric peoples are any of several peoples of Eurasia who speak languages of the Finno-Ugric language family, such as the Khanty, Mansi, Hungarians, Maris, Mordvins, Sámi, Estonians, Karelians, Finns, Udmurts and Komis.
Read more about Finno-Ugric people.
I already talked about Mordvins in this link, Karelians in this link, Udmurts in this link and Estonians in this link.
I also talked about the place where I spent summers when I was a child, my grand-mother place, Bolshoe Boldino which is side-to-side to Mordovia where Mordvins live. This place is far away from Russian North and rest of other Finno-Ugric people.
The reason why I mention it is because I would like you to ask a question: how was it possible that these people that share the same language live in such different places? Think of Hungarians for example,
But let’s continue…
Going back to Udmurts deserves attention.
Here they are – Buranovskie Babushki (Grannies from Buranovo)
The collective “Buranovskie grandmother” has more than seventeen years.
Today, the main part of twelve people. Almost everyone already under seventy.
Galina Konev, director and founder of the ensemble – “survivor” of the collective.
The repertoire of “Grandmas” – folk songs in the Udmurt language and Russian rock!!!
Not only they sing, they dance too!
Please enjoy their sinning and google for more songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qmsmzoRBE
Komi – history (1), history(2), history(3) . I also talked about Komi a bit in this link.
Komi-Permiaki
The northern Komi widely used clothes, borrowed from the Nenets: Malic (blank outerwear fur inside), Sovik (blank outerwear made of reindeer skin fur on the outside), felt boots (sheepskin boots), etc
Pictures from this link
pictures from this link
Saami language is getting less and less used among native people. It is a serious concern and in this link you can read what attempts are made in Russia to preserve the language.
Pictures from this link
Their famous head-ware
Khanty and Mansi
Khanty formerly called Ostyak, Mansi formerly called Vogul, western Siberian peoples, living mainly in the Ob River basin of central Russia. They each speak an Ob-Ugric language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages. Together they numbered some 30,000 in the late 20th century.
They are descended from people from the south Ural steppe who moved into this region about the middle of the 1st millennium ad.
Khanty – history
Mansi – history
Siberia’s dying-out Mansi people (read about)
Ornaments of Khanty and Mansi
http://xant.net.ru/ornament/ornament.htm
http://www.finnougoria.ru/community/folk/section.php?SECTION_ID=346&ELEMENT_ID=2705
http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/gallery125/236/275_268.htm
http://moidorod.blogspot.ca/2010_12_19_archive.html
http://karelian.ru/stati/204-saamy.html
http://www.finnougoria.ru/periodika/16353/
http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/gallery1489/3125/5222_2497.htm
http://www.b-port.com/news/item/41107.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanty_people
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/316322/Khanty-and-Mansi
http://volnomuvolya.com/aborigeni_severnogo_urala_narod_mansi.html
http://www.etnic.ru/nomadic/travel/mansi.html
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