| Summary: | Introduction. The publication consists of a transcription of a biographical
interview of the celebrated Kalmyk historian and Oiratologist - Vladimir Petrovich
Sanchirov (1947-2019), supplemented with the author’s commentaries. The interview
took place in Elista in 2004 as part of the research project ‘E ve ry o n e ’s G ot H is Own
S ib e ria ’ dealing with the crucial but understudied period of Kalmyk history - the nation’s Siberian deportation of 1943-1956 and memories thereof. Goals. The project
aims is to investigate the everyday survival strategies of Kalmyks in Siberia, as well as
to pay tribute to the recently deceased colleague and friend. M ethods. The methodology
used to study the raw interview text includes the textual analysis and deconstruction.
R esults. The transcribed text shows survival and adaptation strategies of the young
generation of spets-pereselentsy at places of forced settlements; we see V. Sanchirov’s
youth in Khanty-Mansiysk, his opposition to ethnical oppression, his dealing with the
stigma of government-forbidden ethnicity, and his acquaintance with Kalmykia. The
text may be of certain interest to all researchers studying the Kalmyk deportation and
memories thereof.
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