Yakut River Worldview
Uliana Vinokurova, Doctor of Sociological Sciences
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River as a factor in development
River basins are one of the important factors in the development of civilizations, the spatial organization of the state and its peoples.
The national identity of ethnic groups is formed on the banks of the rivers of the territories of the place of development.
The national identity of ethnic groups is formed on the banks of the rivers of the territories of the place of development.
The pool approach
The basin approach to understanding the role of rivers in the life of peoples has historically developed since ancient times.
The natural landscape is the basis of physical and spiritual health, creative creativity of indigenous peoples. The peculiarities of the landscape formed the judicial basis of peoples, their imaginative thinking, cultural and civilizational features.
The national identity of ethnic groups is formed on the banks of rivers of the territories of the place of development.
A holistic river worldview
- The river is a concept, expressing not only a common area of residence, but also the commonality of worldview, a single spectrum of axiological concepts for the peoples living on the banks of a single river. (Song "Danube").
- On July 4 the Day of the Lena River is annually celebrated. On June 23rd is the Day of the Viluy River.
The transfer of the river worldview is a mistake.
The historical error of the transfer of the river worldview of the European part of Russia in the conditions of Yakutia was aggravated by a global change in the seasonal rhythms of natural phenomena, when spring comes much earlier at the southern sources of rivers than in the Arctic expanses of the mouths of rivers.
Virtually all settlements located on the banks of Yakutia's rivers have become subject to varying degrees of flooding, underflooding, and inundation. The monument to the pioneers in the town of Srednekolymsk, which is exposed to severe flooding every year, looks like a symbol of this threat.
Virtually all settlements located on the banks of Yakutia's rivers have become subject to varying degrees of flooding, underflooding, and inundation. The monument to the pioneers in the town of Srednekolymsk, which is exposed to severe flooding every year, looks like a symbol of this threat.
Monument to pioneers in the town of Srednekolymsk (May 22, 2018)
The town of Srednekolymsk, founded 375 years ago by Russian explorer Mikhail Stadukhin and Cossack Dmitry Zyryan on the floodplain bank of the Kolyma River, is being flooded with increasing intensity due to the disturbance of natural cycles in the process of global climate change.
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Local identity by the name of the river.
Traditionally, Yakuts have settled in safe upland areas, preserving an integral economic way of life formed on the resources of the river. There are still local identities formed by the awareness of the common fate of the inhabitants of the respective river: Kolyma inhabitants, residents of the Vilyui group of districts, public organizations "Amma kyrdalyn ychchchattara", etc. In fact, the administrative-territorial arrangement of Yakutia is formed by river basins - Taatta, Vilyui, Verkhne-Vilyui, Verkhne-Sredne-Nizhne-Kolyoma uluses, Ust-Yansk, Verkhoyansk, Amga, Olekminsk, Tompo, Kobyaisk, Moma, Anabar, Olenek, Oymyakonsky, Lensk, Aldan, etc.
Traditionally, Yakuts have settled in safe upland areas, preserving an integral economic way of life formed on the resources of the river. There are still local identities formed by the awareness of the common fate of the inhabitants of the respective river: Kolyma inhabitants, residents of the Vilyui group of districts, public organizations "Amma kyrdalyn ychchchattara", etc. In fact, the administrative-territorial arrangement of Yakutia is formed by river basins - Taatta, Vilyui, Verkhne-Vilyui, Verkhne-Sredne-Nizhne-Kolyoma uluses, Ust-Yansk, Verkhoyansk, Amga, Olekminsk, Tompo, Kobyaisk, Moma, Anabar, Olenek, Oymyakonsky, Lensk, Aldan, etc.
Artistic Images of Rivers
What do the images of the rivers express?
The monument "Hotun BULUU", created in 1967 by veteran of the Great Patriotic War Anisim Prokopyev and artist Egor Krylatov and installed on the territory of the Verkhnevilyuysk village park of culture and leisure.
They created an image of a forward-looking Yakut beauty emerging from the river waters on the crest of a wave with her right hand raised high, holding Vilyui diamonds. The "Mother Vilyuy" monument was named the best monument in Yakutia by popular vote in 2017.
They created an image of a forward-looking Yakut beauty emerging from the river waters on the crest of a wave with her right hand raised high, holding Vilyui diamonds. The "Mother Vilyuy" monument was named the best monument in Yakutia by popular vote in 2017.
Timofei Andreevich Stepanov (1943-2005), born in the village. The painting "Kharakh Uuta. Black Tear of Vilyui" (1990).
Amma River.
Model by Augustina Filippova
Model by Augustina Filippova
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Lena River
Venerating native rivers
A value in indigenous spiritual culture that acquires a new incarnation in modern times is legal subjectivity.
The Parliament of New Zealand has recognized the Uonganui River as a living creature and a member of the Maori tribe of the Uonganui, who consider the river their ancestor.
The new status of the river means that any damage done to it will be equated with the damage done to the tribe.
Suggestion: develop "Local Futures" programs on a river basis.
The increasing importance of rivers and water resources in the context of global climate change, transport logistics, the role of local identity in educational and cultural clusters on the basin principle of population settlement.
Vilyui Bioregion:
- Bioregion means a territorial unit, implying ecological and cultural unity, the boundaries of which are determined by natural factors, outside administrative and state borders. Bioregion "Vilyui" - 5 uluses and districts.
- Bioregionalism - spiritual and social practices that ensure close links between human culture, society and the natural environment
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