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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Information Current Archive Rules for authors Contacts	DOI: 10.46698/n3680-9030-2402-a B.A. KALOEV ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION OF V.I. ABAYEV IN ETHNOGRAPHIC SCIENCE Gostieva, Larisa K. Kavkaz Forum. 2020. Issue 4. Abstract: The article considers the scientific contribution of V. I. Abaev to the development of ethnographic science according to B. A. Kaloev. The importance of the theory of the substrate, in the development of which he took an active part the 1920s focused on the conclusion of V. I. Abaev that in the ethnogenesis of the Ossetians dominated Iranian element, despite strong local Caucasian environment, substrate. In the context of this topic, V. I. Abayev’s speeches at conferences on the ethnogenesis of the Balkars and Karachays and Ossetians are analyzed. V. I. Abaev’s theory of areal linguistics is evaluated as a Significant contribution to the problem of ethnogenesis. The works of V. I. Abaev in the field of the Scythian language are studied. Scythian-Sarmatian features in the material and spiritual culture of the Ossetians are revealed. V. I. Abayev’s «Historical and etymological dictionary of the Ossetian language» is considered as the most important ethnographic source. it explains the historical and cultural significance and origin of many issues of General Caucasian studies related to ethnogenesis and ethnic history, objects of material and spiritual culture, folklore, mythology, religion, etc. Attention is focused on the fact that the dictionary pays great attention to the Alans and Ossetian ethnic groups. V. I. Abayev’s great contribution to the development of ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural contacts of the Alans- Ossetians with neighboring peoples of the Caucasus is shown. The author points to the study of Alan elements in the languages and culture of the Balkars and Karachays, Abkhazians, Svans, Megrels, Chechens and Ingush. The influence of V. I. Abaev on the choice of research topics by B. A. Kaloev is noted: the ethnographic heritage of V. F. Miller, the problem of the Hungarian Alans (Yas), and others. The conclusion is made about the significant scientific contribution of V. I. Abaev to the development of ethnographic science. Keywords: ethnography, V.I. Abaev, B.A. Kaloev, ethnogenesis, substrate theory, areal linguistics. + References 1. Kaloev, B.A. Vasilii Ivanovich Abaev i voprosy etnografii v ego trudakh [Vasily Ivanovich Abaev and questions of ethnography in his works]. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 2001. 151 p. 2. Kaloev, B.A. Etnogenez i etnicheskaya istoriya v trudakh V.I. Abaeva [Ethnogenesis and ethnic history in the works of V.I. Abaeva]. Poetika zhanra [Poetics of the genre]. Ordzhonikidze, 1983, pp. 59–74. 3. Abaev, V.I. Osetinskii yazyk i fol’klor [Ossetian language and folklore]. Vol. I. Moscow, Leningrad, 1949. 603 p. 4. Abaev, V.I. Etnogenez osetin po dannym yazyka [Ethnogenesis of Ossetians according to language data]. Proiskhozhdenie osetinskogo naroda. Materialy nauchnoi sessii, posvyashchennoi probleme etnogeneza osetin (6–8 oktyabrya 1966 g.) [Origin of the Ossetian people. Materials of the scientific session devoted to the problem of the ethnogenesis of the Ossetians (October 6–8, 1966)]. Ordzhonikidze, North-Ossetian book publishing house, 1967, pp. 9–21. 5. Abaev, V.I. Yazyk i istoriya [Language and history]. Teoreticheskie problemy sovetskogo yazykoznaniya [Theoretical problems of Soviet linguistics]. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1968, pp. 35–49. 6. Abaev, V.I. Istoriko-etimologicheskii slovar’ osetinskogo yazyka. V 5-kh tomakh [Historical and etymological dictionary of the Ossetian language. In 5 volumes]. Vol. I. Moscow, Leningrad, 1958; Vol. II. Leningrad, 1973; Vol. III. Leningrad, 1979; Vol. IV. Leningrad, 1989; Vol. 5. Moscow, 1995. 7. Abaev, V.I. Dokhristianskaya religiya alan [Pre-Christian religion Alans]. XXV Mezhdunarodnyi kongress vostokovedov. Doklady delegatsii SSSR [XXV In- ternational Congress of Orientalists. Reports of the USSR delegation]. Moscow, 1960, pp. 5–7. 8. Miller, V.F. Osetinsko-russko-nemetskii slovar’. V 3-kh tomakh. Pod red. i s dop. A.A. Freimana [Ossetian-Russian-German dictionary. In 3 volumes. Under. ed. and with add. A.A. Freiman]. Leningrad, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1927, vol. I. 618 p. 9. Abaev, V.I. O vengerskikh yasakh [About Hungarian Yases]. Osetinskaya filologiya [Ossetian Philology]. Iss. I, Ordzhonikidze, 1977, pp. 3–8. 10. Kaloev, B.A. Vengerskie alany (yasy). Istoriko-etnograficheskii ocherk [Hungarian Alans (Yases). Historical and ethnographic sketch]. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1996. 287 p. ← Contents of issue


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