2026, Volume 23, Issue 1
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Valeria Stanislavovna Kuchko FOLK CALENDAR OF THE KOSTROMA REGION. II: AUTUMN-WINTER CYCLE
For citation Received on 24 November 2025 Abstract: This publication continues and completes the presentation of materials on the chrononymy of the Kostroma region of the 20th and 21st centuries, collected by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural University between 2003 and 2025. The corpus of chrononyms containing over 6,000 entries was divided according to the traditional seasonal division of the calendar year into spring-summer and autumn-winter cycles. The first part, demonstrating the content of the spring-summer cycle, was published in the first issue of Voprosy Onomastiki for 2025. The present part lists chrononyms related to the autumn-winter cycle and divided into two sections. Fixed dates and periods are presented first in chronological order from August 28 to February 29. They are followed by movable ones, covering the period from the Saturday before the Intercession of the Virgin to Maslenitsa. The information is presented as follows: 1) the calendar date (according to the Gregorian calendar), 2) the canonical name of the ecclesiastical holiday or the conventional designation for this day/period where the folk name permits confident interpretation (in ambiguous instances, this is indicated by a question mark), and 3) all local name variants for this day/period (listed alphabetically, along with the districts of the Kostroma region where they were recorded, also arranged in alphabetical order). The authors also selectively provide examples of the chrononym’s use in folk speech. The two publications thus provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the regional system of calendar names, supplemented by ethnocultural information. A significant portion of the materials presented here is new and has not previously been published. 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 staff 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 Atroshenko, O. V., Krivoshchapova, Yu. A., & Osipova, K. V. (2015). Russkii narodnyi kalendar’: etnolingvisticheskii slovar’ [Russian Folk Calendar: Ethnolinguistic Dictionary]. Moscow: AST-PRESS KNIGA. Kuchko, V. S., & Surikova, O. D. (2025). Narodnyi kalendar’ Kostromskogo kraia. I : Vesenne-letnii tsikl [Folk Calendar of the Kostroma Region. I : Spring-Summer Cycle]. Voprosy onomastiki, 22(1), 269–297. https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2025.22.1.012.
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