Zula is a Kalmyk living in Moscow. He came to Elista with his family to visit his grandmother, who is living in the Kalmyk capital.
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Sörkte is a Kalmyk from Xinjian in China. He has come to Russia to study at the Kalmyk State University in Elista. According to him, the dialect of Kalmyks from China, where there is a sizable minority of them living, is different from that of Kalmyks in Russia. By now…
Alexander is a young member of Russia’s national guard. His battalion was ordered on a trip to the Paulus museum in central Volgograd, located in the cellar of the warehouse where the encircled 6th German army surrendered to the Soviets on January 31st 1943 in what was then called Stalingrad.…
Hisham (right) and his friend are from Mafraq in the north of Jordan. They are studying medicine in Volgograd. In fact, quite a lot of people from Arabic, African and Latin American countries are coming to Russia for their studies. This phenomenon can be traced back to Soviet times, when…