Izhma Komi
Izhma Komi (Russian: Коми-ижемцы (Komi-Izhemtsy), endonym: Изьватас (Iźvatas)) is an ethnic group of Komi people residing primarily in the north of the Komi Republic.
The beginning of the formation of the Izhma Komi ethnic group is traced to the second half of the 16th century when a group of Komi founded the Izhma sloboda by the Izhma River. The formation of the separate ethnicity finalized during 17th and 18th centuries. During the 19th century they expanded their habitat by settling along the middle Pechora River, by the Usa River, in Bolshezemelskaya and Kanin Peninsula tundras, even crossing the Ural Mountains and settling by the Ob River. A group of Izhma Komi settled as far as at the Kola Peninsula.[1][2]
Their primary subsistence was based on reindeer herding.[1]
References
- 1 2 Yuri Shabayev, Valeri Sharapov, "The Izhma Komi and the Pomor: Two Models of Cultural Transformation", Journal of the Ethnology and Folkloristics vol. 5 no 1, 2011, pp.97-122 (retrieved March 22, 2014)
- ↑ David G. Anderson (ed.), "The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions", 2013, ISBN 1782380981, Chapter 6: Igor Semenov, "Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question", pp.133-179