2025, Volume 22, Issue 1
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Valeria Stanislavovna Kuchko Olesya Dmitrievna Surikova FOLK CALENDAR OF THE KOSTROMA REGION. I: SPRING-SUMMER CYCLE
For citation Received on 25 November 2024 Abstract: This publication presents a collection of materials on the chrononymy of the Kostroma Region from the 20th and 21st centuries. The field data were collected by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural University between 2003 and 2024. The corpus of chrononyms is large, containing over 5,100 entries. Due to its size, the calendar materials will be published in two parts, based on the traditional seasonal division of the calendar year: spring-summer and autumn-winter cycles. Each part is divided into two sections: fixed dates and periods are presented first, followed by movable ones. For the spring-summer cycle, fixed holidays range from March 4 to August 31, while movable holidays cover the period from the start of Lent to the end of summer. The information is presented as follows: 1) the calendar date (in the Gregorian calendar), 2) the canonical name of the church holiday or widely recognized name of the day or period, and 3) all local name variants for the day/period (listed alphabetically, along with the districts of the Kostroma region where they were recorded). Examples of the chrononym’s use in popular speech are also provided, typically including calendar-related signs, proverbs, agricultural recommendations, or descriptions of festive rites. The authors aim to reconstruct the regional system of calendar names, while also providing ethnocultural context. Many of the materials presented are newly collected and have not previously been published. Some of the Kostroma chrononymic data collected by the Toponymic Expedition were included in the all-Russian chrononym collection Russian Folk Calendar (Moscow, 2015), but the fieldwork conducted over the past decade has significantly expanded both the geographical scope and the volume of the data. Keywords: ethnolinguistics; ethnography; Russian folk dialects; chrononymy; folk calendar; festive rite; Kostroma Region Acknowledgements The grant of Russian Science Foundation No. 23-78-10029 Traditional Culture of the Kostroma Village in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period: An Electronic Corpus of Ethnolinguistic Materials, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-78-10029/, is gratefully acknowledged. The authors express their sincere gratitude to the participants of the Toponymic Expedition of Ural Federal University who collected information on the folk calendar in the Kostroma Region, as well as to the informants who preserved this knowledge in their memories. References Tolstaya, S. M. (2005). Polesskii narodnyi calendar’ [Folk Calendar of Polessye]. Moscow: Indrik.
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