Russkaya Starina

108-118

Authors: Alexey Y. Bezugolniy

This article is dedicated to the participation of three national formations – the 110th Kalmyk Cavalry Division, the 115th Kabardino-Balkar Cavalry Division, and the 255th Independent Chechen-Ingush Cavalry Regiment – in the most dramatic events of the 1942 summer campaign associated with the Soviet troops' defense in the big bend of the River Don. Compared with most military formations within the Red Workers' and Peasants' Army which fought around this line, the national units were fresh and fully equipped with men, horses, and machinery. The national military formations put up a fierce resistance against the enemy. However, due to the latter’s overwhelming superiority in manpower, artillery, tanks, and aviation, they were overpowered by the enemy within days.

130-140

Authors: Oleg B. Molodov

In this article, the author makes an attempt to analyze changes in the state’s confessional policy in 1940-1945. Based on materials from Vologda’s regional newspaper “Krasnyi Sever”, the author conducts a comprehensive study of publications relating to religion, the faithful, religious associations, and atheist activities. While on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, antireligious activity had been given considerable attention, with its commencement this line of work pursued by the authorities and public organizations lost its topicality. After the “radical turning point” in the war's development, there emerged the period of softening the treatment of clergy, the faithful, and their communities, which lasted until the end of the 1940s.

150-160

Authors: Nina A. Vlaskina

In this article, the author analyzes oral and written ethnographic and ethno-linguistic materials of the 19th-21st centuries on the traditional culture of the Nekrasov Cossacks. The author provides a characterization of the tradition’s sections formed or transformed under the influence of fishing specialization. The article examines one by one three thematic blocks: the organization of the daily and ceremonial life of the Nekrasov Cossacks, the content and form of translation of folklore texts, as well as the transformation of the tradition’s elements associated with the peculiarities of fishing practice.