Altay people
Oirat -- Messenger of the White Burkhan (Nicholas Roerich, 1925)
Total population
200,000 Image File history File links Oirat--Messenger of the White Burkhan by Nicholas Roerich 1925 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Guests from Overseas, 1899 (Varangians in Russia) Longships Are Built in the Land of the Slavs (1903) Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Николай Константинович Рёрих), was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher. ...
Regions with significant populations
Altai Republic    64,000 Kuznetsk Alatau    59,000
Languages
Altay Turkic
Religions
Tibetan Buddism, [1] Russian Orthodox, [2] Shamanism, Burkhanism
Related ethnic groups
Tatars, Chelkans, Tuvans

The Altay or Altai are a Turkic people living in the Siberian Altai Republic and Altai Krai and surrounding areas of Tuva and Mongolia. For alternative ethnonyms see also Teleut, Tele, Telengit, Mountain Kalmuck, White Kalmuck, Black Tatar, Oirat. The Altai Republic (Russian: ; Altay: Алтай Республика) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... Kuznetsk Alatau (Russian: ) is a mountain range, South Siberia, Russia between Kuznetsk Depression and Minusinsk Depression. ... Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are traditionally considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family. ... Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ... The Russian Orthodox Church (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with... A shaman doctor of Kyzyl. ... Burkhanism or Ak Jang is a new religious movement that flourished among the indigenous people of Russias Gorno Altai region (okrug) between 1904 and the 1930s. ... Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartar (more about the name), is a collective name applied to the Turkic speaking people of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. ... According to the 2002 census, there were 855 Chelkans in Russia. ... Tuvans or Tuvinians (Tuvan: Тывалар, Tyvalar) are a group of Turkic people who make up about two thirds of the population of Tuva, Russia. ... This article is about the various peoples speaking one of the Turkic languages. ... This list is based solely on territory; the peoples listed here do not belong to a single language family or ethnicity: they are Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Eskimo-Aleut, and other groups. ... The Altai Republic (Russian: ; Altay: Алтай Республика) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... Altai Krai (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) in the Siberian Federal District. ... Tyva Republic IPA: (Russian: IPA: ; Tuvan: ), or Tuva (), is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ... For the character in Polynesian mythology, see Tele (mythology). ... A Telengit is a member of an ethnic group in Russia. ... The Oyirad (also spelled Oirat) is an alliance of the western Mongols. ...

The Altay people have had skills in metalworking dating back to the 2nd millennium BC.^[3] The Altay came into contact with Russians in the 18th century. In the tsarist period, the Altay were known as oirot or oyrot (this name would later be carried on for the Oyrot Autonomous Oblast). Many of the Altay became addicted to the Russians' vodka, which they called "fire water".^[4] Turned chess pieces Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metals to create structures or machine parts. ... The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. ... The subject of this article was previously also known as Russia. ... Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast was the name given to Oyrot Autonomous Oblast in 1948-01-07. ... Vodka bottling machine, Shatskaya Vodka Shatsk, Russia Vodka is one of the worlds most popular distilled beverages. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The Altay were originally nomadic, with a lifestyle based on hunting / trapping and pastorialism (mainly cattle, sheep, goats), but many of them settled as a result of Russian influence. In regards to religion, some of the Altay remain Shamanists, while others (in a trend beginning in the mid-19th century) have converted to the Orthodox. (The Altai mission took shape under Saint Makarii Glukharev, Apostle to the Altai.) In 1904, a religious movement called Ak Jang or Burkhanism arose, perhaps in response to Russian colonization.^[5] Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. ... A shaman doctor of Kyzyl. ... The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (Russian: ), also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... Burkhanism or Ak Jang is a new religious movement that flourished among the indigenous people of Russias Gorno Altai region (okrug) between 1904 and the 1930s. ... Burkhanism or Ak Jang is a new religious movement that flourished among the indigenous people of Russias Gorno Altai region (okrug) between 1904 and the 1930s. ...

With the rise of the 1917 revolution, the Altay attempted to make their region a separate Burkhanist republic called Oryot, but their support for the Mensheviks during the Civil War led to the venture's collapse after the Bolshevik victory and the rise of Stalin. In the 1940s, the Altay were accused of being pro-Japanese, and the word "oyrot" was declared counterrevolutionary. By 1950, Soviet industrialization had cost the Altay 80% of their population.^[6] Ethnic Altaians currently make up about 31% of the Altai Republic's population^[7]. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Leaders of the Menshevik Party at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1917. ... Combatants Red Army Latvian Reds Finnish Reds White Army Czech Legion Allied intervention UK France United States Japan Italy  Canada  Greece  Romania  Serbia New states Poland Finland  Latvia  Estonia  Lithuania Ukrainian Peoples Republic Green Army (Cossacks) Black Army (Anarchists) Blue Army (Peasants) Commanders Trotsky Mikhail Tukhachevsky Kamenev Budyonny Frunze... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვი&#4314... A counterrevolutionary is anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part. ... // At the fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in December 1927, Stalin attacked the left by expelling Trotsky and his supporters from the party and then moving against the right by abandoning Lenins New Economic Policy which had been championed by Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei...

See also

• Altay language
• Altay Mountains
• Altai Republic

Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The Altai Republic (Russian: ; Altay: Алтай Республика) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). ...

Notes

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External links

• NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies profile
• Hunmagyar profile
• The legend of Altay
• Tortuga foundation