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Tatar First Names from West Siberia: An English and Russian Dictionary, with Native-Speaker Pronunciation CD

This book is a result of a joint US-Russian study which appears valuable for both historians and linguists, because this is the first study that has been devoted to personal names of Tatars living in Western Siberia, namely, in the Tomsk region. The Tatar population of Tomsk and Tomskaya Oblast represents the most significant indigenous group (about 20,000 or 2% of the population) that has different traditions from those of the Russians in terms of culture, lifestyle, psychology, and religion. Tatars live both in the city and countryside. Historically, the Tatar population was not ethnically united and had been formed of two components — the alien and the native — which were also not homogeneous and differed from each other in terms of household traditions, language dialects, and level of socioeconomic and cultural development. The Turkic-speaking population of the province was divided into Tomsk Tatars, who came from three tribes — Eusta, Chat, and Kalmak (descendants of Teleuts) — and the newcomer Tatars who came from the Volga and Ural regions. The newcomer Tatars played an important role in leveling the linguistic and cultural diversity among the Tatars of Tomsk. Kazan Tatars appeared in the Tomsk province in the first half of the seventeenth century, but the most intensive resettlement refers to the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. It is the newcomer Tatars who brought with them the Muslim religion that was adopted by Tomsk Tatars in the first half of the eighteenth century and eventually contributed to the ultimate unification of the Tatar population. Coexistence of the alien and indigenous Tatars helped to overcome the differences between their languages. The influence of the newcomer Tatars was evident in the fields of economy (e.g. in the wider dissemination of agriculture), clothing, food, naming ceremonies (and the borrowing of personal names that occurred), and others. However, this was not a one-way process, and there was also assimilation of the newcomers by local Tatars. Quite a significant group of the Tatar population lived in the city of Tomsk, in a separate area called Zaistochie. In Tomsk the local Tatars mixed actively with the Kazan Tatars, and the latter subjugated the indigenous Tatars to their influence and spread their language and culture among them. The growth in the urban and rural Tatar population in Tomsk and the surrounding region was due to intensive migration during World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), the famine in the Volga region in 1921–1922, labor migration, and natural population increases. Currently, the Tatar population of Tomsk and the region is a significant ethnic group formed from the mix of Kazan and Siberian Tatars, Bukhara, and other Turkic peoples, who have their established culture, life, psychology, religion (Islam), and native Tatar language. Siberian Tatars speak the Ural-Turkish dialect, which differs from other Tatar dialects. In Tatar First Names from West Siberia: An English and Russian Dictionary, the authors analyze the personal names of 50 Tatar families from the city of Tomsk and 50 families from Tatar villages in the Tomsk region. A total of 799 respondents were interviewed and, from them, more than 500 names were collected. The Dictionary gives a record of each name in English and Russian transliteration, its gender, the BBC–New York Times pronunciation variant, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) pronunciation variant. It is especially valuable that the Dictionary traces the language which the name comes from (if the name is not of Tatar origin), for example: “Alisa, ah-lee-sah, English < Old French < Old German ‘of noble kind,’ possibly a form of Alexandra