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2 unusual facts about Komi


Komi-Permyak

Komi-Permyak Okrug, a territory with special status within Perm Krai, Russia

Komi-Permyak language

The northern group of the Permian dialects (upon Kösva, Kama and Lup rivers) was under a strong Zyrian influence on all the levels.


Aleksandras Stulginskis

In 1941 Stulginskis and his wife were arrested by the Soviet NKVD and deported to a gulag in the Krasnoyarsk region, while his wife was deported to the Komi area.

Komi mythology

The Komi equivalent of the Styx (the river of the underworld in Greek mythology) was "Syr Yu" (Сыр Ю), "River of Pitch."

Komi peoples

Komi dukes unified the Great Perm with its centre at the stronghold of Cherdyn.

Lake Komi

Lake Komi was a prehistoric periglacial lake formed in the region of the present-day Russian Komi Republic when the Barents Sea outlet of the Pechora River was blocked by ice during the Weichselian Glaciation.

Mulda

Mulda, Russia, an urban-type settlement under the jurisdiction of Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia

Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Further plans by Russian railways include the construction of two railways linking settlements in Zapolyarny Municipal District, one, a line running 210 km from Vorkuta, in the Komi Republic, to Ust-Kara in the far east of the district, and another running from Sosnogorsk, also in the Komi Republic, to Indiga in the west of the district.

Old Permic alphabet

The alphabet derived from Cyrillic and Greek, and Komi tribal signs, the latter being similar in the appearance to runes or siglas poveiras, because they were created by incisions, rather than by usual writing.

Pechorsk

Troitsko-Pechorsk, an urban-type settlement in the Komi Republic, Russia

Permian bronze casts

Permian bronze casts were produced by the Komi and Udmurt people between the 4th and the 14th centuries.

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889, Turja north of Syktyvkar, Yarensk uyezd, Vologda Governorate (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi), Russian Empire – February 11, 1968, Winchester, Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia).

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Yarenga

Yarenga River, a river in the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia


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