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41-575: There have been at least three names for the Komi: Permyaks , Zyrians (Russian: пермяки, зыряне ) and Komi . The name Permyaks first appeared in Russian sources in the 10th century and came from the ancient name of the land between the Mezen and Pechora rivers– Perm or " Great Perm " ( Russian : Пермь Великая ). Several origins of the name have been proposed but the most accepted

82-731: A Finnic language , has been dated to the beginning of the 13th century and Finnish as a written language appeared only after the Reformation in 1543. Lytkin's 1952 work is often considered the authoritative source of documentation for this script. There are 24 primary characters, along with 10 secondary characters that are subordinate to the primary characters. There are also some combining marks that may have been used for phonological purposes, in addition to some combining letters from Latin and Cyrillic that have been found as well. Spaces, middle dots, and semi-apostrophes have also been seen as punctuation in documents. A Cyrillic combining titlo

123-692: A distinct pole of genetic diversity. According to a 2018 study, approximately 19% of Komi autosomal ancestry can be estimated to be Nganasan -like. This Siberian-related component is typical for Uralic populations. Mezen River The Mezen ( Russian : Мезень ; Komi : Мозын, Mozy n ) is a river in Udorsky District of the Komi Republic and in Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia . Its mouth

164-568: A river. Since the Komi people inhabit territories densely covered with forests, the main material for the construction of houses and farm buildings has traditionally been wood. Komi dwellings in many respects resemble North Russian houses in their internal structure. 2 major types of house types exist among the Komi, the Sysol house type (Сысольский тип) and the Vym house type (Bымский тип). The Sysol home

205-518: A single language with two regional language standards. The two separate standards were created in the early Soviet era partly because of the traditional administrative borders, and partly to hinder pan-Komi nationalistic aspirations. Until the 18th century, Komi was written in the Old Permic script (Komi: Важ Перым гижӧм, 𐍮𐍐‎𐍕 𐍟‎𐍔‎𐍠𐍨𐍜 𐍒‎𐍣‎𐍕𐍩𐍜‎, Važ Perym gižöm ), also known as Anbur in reference in reference to its first 2 letters, which

246-514: Is a "highly idiosyncratic adaptation" of the Cyrillic script once used to write medieval Komi (a member of the Permic branch of Finno-Ugric languages). The script was introduced by a Russian missionary, Stephen of Perm , in 1372. The name Abur is derived from the names of the first two characters: An and Bur . The script derived from Cyrillic and Greek , with Komi " Tamga " signs,

287-678: Is from Veps Peräma "back, outer or far-away land". In Old Norse and Old English , it was known as Bjarmaland and Beormas respectively but those Germanic names designate a wider area than the Russian Perm , extending into the Arkhangelsk Oblast . Since the 20th century, the name has been applied only to the southern Komi (Komi-Permyaks) in the Perm Krai. In Russia, permyak also means "an inhabitant of Perm or Perm Krai", regardless of ethnicity. The name for

328-408: Is in a square-shaped, divided internally between a commercial section and the private section for its residents. The Vym house type is not very easy to distinguish from the Sysol home, its major differences lying in the windows and internal arrangement. The Izhma Komi, living in sparsely-wooded areas live in chum tents. The efforts of Stephen of Perm to convert the Komi people to Orthodoxy had allowed

369-914: Is located in the Mezen Bay of the White Sea . Mezen is one of the biggest rivers of European Russia. It is 966 kilometres (600 mi) long, and the area of its basin 78,000 square kilometres (30,000 sq mi). The principal tributaries of the Mezen are the Bolshaya Loptyuga (left), the Pyssa (left), the Mezenskaya Pizhma (right), the Sula (right), the Kyma (right), the Vashka (left),

410-628: Is typical for the Uralic-speaking peoples. 37% carry its subclade N1c and 18.5 percent belong to subgroup N-P43 . The second most common Y-haplogroup for Komi is R1a (27.4%). Among the mtDNA haplogroups, the most common is H (33%). About one in four have the haplogroup U . 13.6 % belong to its subgroup U4 and 9.9% belong to subgroup U5 . Haplogroup T is found with a frequency of 13.3%. A study on northeastern European populations, published in March 2013, found that Komi-Zyryans form

451-819: The Novgorod Republic . In the 13th century the Novgorod merchants already reached the White Sea . The Mezen was used by Novgorod merchants as the trading route to the basin of the Pechora which was attractive because of the fur. From the Northern Dvina, they went upstream the Pinega and took the boats by land to the Kuloy . The boats then were taken from the Kuloy to the Mezen. The river route continued east up

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492-604: The Pyoza (right), and the Kimzha (left). The river basin of the Mezen comprises vast areas in the east and north-east of Arkhangelsk Oblast and in the west of the Komi Republic. The town of Mezen , the urban type settlements of Usogorsk and Kamenka , as well as the administrative center of Udorsky District, the selo of Koslan all are located on the banks of the Mezen. The administrative center of Leshukonsky District,

533-734: The Russian language . April 26, which is the feast day of Stephen of Perm, is celebrated as Old Permic Alphabet Day. The Abur inscriptions are among the oldest relics of the Uralic languages . Only one of them has earlier documents: Hungarian , which had been written using the Old Hungarian script first before the Latin script was used after 1000. For comparison, an isolated birch bark letter , found in Novgorod and written in Cyrillic in

574-524: The 1860s. A national movement to revive Komi culture also emerged. Russian rule in the area collapsed after World War I and the revolutions of 1917 . In the subsequent Russian Civil War , the Bolsheviks fought the Allies for control of the region. The Allied forces encouraged the Komi to set up their own independent state with the help of political prisoners freed from the local penal colonies. After

615-533: The 336,309 recorded as Komi in the 1989 census. The Komi language belongs to the Permian branch of the Uralic family . There is limited mutual intelligibility with Udmurt . There are two main dialects: Zyrian in the Komi Republic and Permyak in the Komi-Permyak Okrug , which have been traditionally treated as separate languages. They are mutually intelligible, and can also be considered to form

656-582: The Allies withdrew in 1919, the Bolsheviks took over. They promoted Komi culture with the policy of korenizatsiya , but increased industrialisation damaged the Komi traditional way of life and the landscape of the republic. Stalin 's purges of the 1930s devastated the Komi intelligentsia , who were accused of "bourgeois nationalism". The remote and inhospitable region was also regarded as an ideal location for gulags . The influx of political prisoners and

697-514: The Komi Republic resides in urban centres but a notable minority continues to live in villages. The Komi population in the countryside tends to be higher than that of Komi in urban areas, where ethnic Russians make up the majority of the population. Like the rest of the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia, the population continues to steadily decrease - the 2010 census recorded only 228,235 people who indicated their nationality as "Komi", as compared to

738-401: The Komi people is quite diverse and has numerous local variants. While men's clothing had remained mostly similar throughout the territories inhabited by the Komi people (excluding the winter costumes of Komi males), women's clothing has more variety, each region having its own distinct clothing type. These differences lie in the embroidery technique, type of fabrics and ornamentation. In general,

779-573: The Komi to begin constructing and experimenting with church architecture, creating many churches with the tented-roof style similarly to the constructions happening in Northern Russia and Pomerania. While most churches in the territory of the republic were constructed with wood, select churches and monasteries featured stone construction. The republic had over 430 churches in 1917, but this number has fallen down to just 130, 31 of which are registered under heritage programs. The national dress of

820-666: The Komi to have invented skis , Joma (Ёма) who is regarded to be a Komi equivalent to the Baba Yaga and Pera (Пера) who is a character from the tales of the Komi-Permyaks known for his courage. Information regarding the pre-Christian Komi religion is not well researched, with formal research by Russian ethnologists only beginning during the later half of the 19th century. Klavdij Alekseevich Popov (1874), Alexandr Vasilevich Krasov (1896), and Kallistrat Faloleevich Zhakov  [ ru ] (1901) all made attempts to reconstruct

861-464: The Komis. Syktyvkar ( Ust-Sysolsk before 1930) was founded as the chief Russian city in the region in the 18th century. The Russian government established penal settlements in the north for criminals and political prisoners. There were several Komi rebellions in protest against Russian rule and the influx of Slav settlers, especially after large numbers of freed serfs started arriving in the region in

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902-669: The Mezen River are mentioned during the 16th century: Yuroma (1513) and Koynas (1554). The middle course of the Mezen, approximately the current area of Leshukonsky District , was where Russian and Komi cultures mixed the most. In the lower course of the Mezen, currently Mezensky District , Russians dominated, whereas in the upper course, currently Udorsky District , Komi dominated. Old Permic script The Old Permic script ( Komi : Важ Перым гижӧм , 𐍮‎𐍐𐍕 𐍟𐍔𐍠𐍨𐍜 𐍒𐍙𐍕𐍞𐍜 ‎, Važ Perym gižöm ), sometimes known by its initial two characters as Abur or Anbur ,

943-639: The Mezen runs through the hilly landscape. The Mezen flows into the Mezen Bay of the White Sea near the town of Mezen, right below the Arctic Circle . Near its mouth, the Pyoza River enters from the east. The Mezen is navigable below the selo of Koslan, however, there is no regular passenger navigation except for ferry crossings. The area was populated by Finnic peoples and then colonized by

984-937: The Pyoza, portage, and down the Tsilma to the Pechora. Another route went from the Northern Dvina upstream the Pukshenga , then moved to the Pokshenga and downstream to the Pinega. From the Pinega, the merchants used the Yozhuga , the Zyryanskaya Vashka , and the Vashka to get to the Mezen. After the fall of Novgorod, the area became a part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow . The first permanent Russian settlements on

1025-773: The ancient religion of the Komi-Zyryans. Nikolai Abramovich Rogov (1858, 1860), Nikolai Dobrotvorsky (1883), Ivan Nikolaevich Smirnov (1891), and Vladimir Mikhailovich Yanovich (1903) made reconstructions of the aspects of the Komi religion focusing on the natural world. According to The Life of Saint Stefan, the Bishop of Perm (1897) by Epiphany the Wise, the Komi ancestors had many deities, whose wooden images stood in dedicated cult sanctuaries for higher-ranking deities, while those of domestic deities were kept in Komi dwellings. More than half of Komi-Zyryan men have haplogroup N , which

1066-401: The creation of the world as a result of the struggle of two gods, En (Komi: Ен) and Omöl' (Komi: Омöль ). These 2 deities are regarded as creator-gods in the Komi mythos, who created all life in the world (though it was En who would vivify them). As the Komi were gradually Christianized, the depictions of En & Omöl began to mirror those of God and Satan, in which Omöl would be depicted as

1107-520: The diet of the northern Komi, while dishes utilizing berries were more common in the south. Popular dishes of Komi cuisine are grain pies with fish, various porridges, Serbanka , other sour soups, cold soups based on bread, kvass , etc. The popular Russian dumpling dish pelmeni likely has its origins in the cuisine of the Komi and Udmurt peoples, its name (пельнянь, pel'n'an' ) meaning "ear bread" in both languages. Most Komi myths are related to shamanism and paganism. The most widespread myths are about

1148-403: The latter being similar in the appearance to runes or siglas poveiras because they were created by incisions rather than by usual writing. The inclusion of the latter aided the script to greater acceptance among the medieval Permic speakers of the time. The script was in use until the 17th century, when it was superseded by the Cyrillic script . Abur was also used as cryptographic writing for

1189-471: The latter due to his efforts to hamper En's creation process. Even with the Christianization of the Komi, there are relatively few Christian legends and tales in the folklore of the Komi, but tales of c hudins , who are pagans and flee away from the new order to the forests, have become widespread. Some notable characters from Komi mythology include Jirkap (Йиркап) from Sindor , who is thought by

1230-438: The northern Komis – Zyryans – has a more contradictory origin. It exists since at least the 14th century and has many different forms in various Russian sources such as Seryan, Siryan, Syryan, Suryan and Ziryan, Ziranian, Zyryan ( Russian : серьяне, сирьяне, сыряне, суряне, зиряне, зыряне ), but the latter finally became predominant. Turkin believed that it may come from a small tribe of the Komi (probably named saran ) which

1271-663: The prehistoric Permians are assumed to have split into two peoples during the first millennium BC: the Komi and the Udmurts . By the 16th-17th centuries, the Komi further divided into the Komi-Permyaks (who remained in the Kama River basin) and the Komi-Zyryans (who migrated north). From the 12th century the Russians began to expand into the Perm region and the Komi came into contact with Novgorod . Novgorodian traders travelled to

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1312-558: The rapid industrialisation of the region as a result of World War II left the Komi a minority in their own lands. Stalin carried out further purges of the Komi intellectual class in the 1940s and 1950s, and Komi language and culture were suppressed. Since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Komi have reasserted their claims to a separate identity. The Komi settlements were set-up with large, multi-courtyard churchyards and villages, which were typically constructed along or close to

1353-579: The region in search of furs and animal hides. The Novgorodians referred to the southern Komi region as "the Great Perm ". Komi dukes unified the Great Perm with its centre at the stronghold of Cherdyn . As the Middle Ages progressed, Novgorod gave way to Moscow as the leading Russian power in the region. In 1365, Dmitry Donskoy , Prince of Moscow, gave Stephen of Perm the task of converting

1394-491: The region to Christianity. Stephen's mission led to the creation of the eparchy of Perm in 1383. After his death, Stephen became the patron saint of the Komi. He also devised an alphabet for the Komi language . Some Komi resisted Christianisation, notably the shaman Pama. The Duke of Perm accepted baptism only in 1470 (he was given the Christian name Mikhail), possibly in an attempt to stave off Russian military pressure in

1435-450: The region. Mikhail's conversion failed to stop an attack by Moscow which seized Cherdyn in 1472. Mikhail was allowed to keep his title of duke but was now a vassal of Moscow. The duchy survived only until 1505 when Mikhail's son Matvei was replaced by a Russian governor and Komi independence came to an end. In the 1500s, many Russian migrants began to move into the region, beginning a long process of colonisation and attempts at assimilating

1476-537: The rivers where they live: The majority of the Komi live in the Komi Republic as a separate national-administrative entity of the Russian Federation, numbering 256,000 as of the beginning of the 21st century, roughly 30% of the Republic's population. About 60% (607,000) are Russians, about 6% (62,000) are Ukrainians, 1.5% (15,500) are Tatars, and 1.4% (15,000) are Belarusians. Most of the population of

1517-596: The selo of Leshukonskoye , is located on the Vashka River several kilometers upstream from the confluence of the Vashka and the Mezen and is connected with the right bank of the Mezen by a ferry crossing. The source of the Mezen is in the Timan Ridge in the Komi Republic, west of the northern Ural Mountains . It flows first south-west, then sharply turns roughly in the north-western direction. The upper course of

1558-608: The traditional clothing of the southern and central Komi closely resembles that of the Northern Russians and other Finno-Ugric groups, while the costume of the Izhma Komi has many common features with the Nenets . Hunting, gathering and fishing have long been the main source of food for the Komi people, displayed through the dominance of meat, fish, berries and mushrooms in most Komi diets. Meat dishes were more common in

1599-628: The word came from the name of the Kama River has been disproven, though some scholars like Paula Kokkonen favour this version. The Komi are divided into two main groups, which are the Zyryans (northern Komi) and the Permyaks (southern Komi). These are divided into 8 subgroupings (9 if counting the almost completely russified Komi of the Upper Kama), which are further divided into even smaller subgroups. The Komi have been traditionally named after

1640-608: Was created by Saint Stephen of Perm in the 14th century, seeing use up to the 16th century after which it saw use as a cryptographic writing system for Russian speakers. Cyrillic was used from the 19th century and briefly replaced by the Latin alphabet between 1932 and 1936. The Komi language is currently written in Cyrillic, adding two extra letters - Іі and Ӧӧ - to represent vowel sounds which do not exist in Russian. The first book to be printed in Komi (a vaccination manual) appeared in 1815. Based on linguistic reconstruction ,

1681-625: Was first met by the Russians, who used the name for all northern Komi. The neighbouring Uralic-speaking peoples use similar names for the Komi: Khanty sərän, sərån, săran, sārån , Mansi sarän , Nenets sānnğr, saran , Udmurt sara-kum . The name Komi is the endonym for all subgroups of the people. It was first recorded by ethnographers in the 18th century. It originates from a Finno-Ugric word meaning "man, human": Komi kom , Udmurt kum , Mansi kom, kum , Khanty xum , Selkup qum , Hungarian hím "male". The theory that stated

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