Society for the study of the native land (Chuvashia)

Society for the study of the native land (SSNL) – Association of ethnographers of the Chuvashia to study the local region. The Company distributes scientific data on native land, introduces the population of the republic with the life and culture of the peoples of the country.

Structure and composition

In the society functioned sections: natural-historical, historical, archaeological, ethnographic, socio-political, artistic and literature, scientific and educational, organizational and instructors, information, since 1925 – a constitutional section.

In the first year in the community was 51 members., In 1924 – 90, in 1926 – 155, including academicians, professors, researchers – 27 secondary school teachers – 24, agronomists – 16, doctors – 6, writers – 6 artists – 6 students – 27, and the rest – civil servants.

In the Company's assets consisted of Studies of the local history enthusiasts K.V. Elli, D.S. Elmen, N.I. Vanerkke, I.K. Lukyanov, D. Petrov, F. Pavlov.

History

Society was created February 12, 1921 in Cheboksary in the Chuvash National Museum.

The company's charter was approved by the regional executive committee of the Chuvash April 16, 1921, the Board elected the following day.

Local historians were accounting and recording of archaeological monuments, the collection of archaeological objects for museums (A.V. Vasilyev, K.V. Elle et al.).

Occasionally they conducted exploration and excavation. AP Milli (Procopius) identify and examine the gravestones with Arabic inscriptions; KV Ella examined objects of antiquity, as well as spent excavations at the site finds Tihomirovskogo Juchi treasure coins (1928).

In Proceedings of the Society for the Study of local lore were printed books VF Smolin "Abashevo burial in the Chuvash Republic" (1928), reports PP Efimenko and articles on archeology Chuvashia. K.V. Ella and N.A. Archangel at the end of the 1920s. prepared a handwritten set of archaeological and ethnographic objects "Toponyms of Chuvashia. Antiquities Chuvash ASSR. "In 1930 P.N. Tretyakov continued work Srednevolzhskaya GAIMK expedition began studying monuments Fatyanovo (Balanovskaya) culture in Chuvashia (Atlikasinsky burial mound).[1]

In the 1930s, active members of society were accused of bourgeois nationalism and repressed, after that the society ceased to exist.

Society was recreated in 1991.

Literature

See also

References

  1. Археологические памятники

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