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DOI: 10.46698/d7824-0261-0884-q

NAMES AND SELF-NAMES OF THE PEOPLES OF THE CAUCASUS IN THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE E. G. PCHELINA’S ARCHIVE FUND

Bondar, Larisa D. , Dzhioeva, Zalina A.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2020. IIS 36 (75).
Abstract:
This article is a publication of archival materials of E. G. Pchelina; this material is stored in the
St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and concerns the issue of the
names and self-designation of the Caucasian peoples. The authors set goals for themselves: 1) full-text
publication of some documents, 2) reconstruction of the list of scientific works on this topic, studied
by Pchelina, 3) a systematic presentation of scientific material on the topic that was of interest to the
researcher, 4) a reflection of the researcher»s critical views on certain aspects of the topic, which were
expressed in the comments to the bibliographic extracts. These tasks are facilitated by the author»s
systematization of the material; this systematization was carefully preserved by archivists who
carried out scientific-technical processing of the fond. This gives confidence in the most authentic
reconstruction of the views of Pchelina on the designated problem. The researcher conducted her
studying mainly on the basis of scientific literature published before the end of the 1940s; it seems
that she did not deal with this issue after 1955. It is possible that she could have obtained some of
the information in the «field», during her ethnographic research in the North Caucasus. It is obvious
that Pchelina, who did not position herself as a linguist, did not set herself the task of scientific
discoveries on this topic; it was important for her to understand the issue of Caucasian ethnonymy
as a basic one for her own ethnographic and archaeological researches. But it was not easy to do this:
the most of the published at that time works concerned the ancient and medieval periods.
Keywords: E. G. Pchelina»s archive, Caucasian ethnonymics, self-names of the peoples of the Caucasus
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