Republic of Kalmykia

The representatives of the “National Geographic” magazine have come to Kalmykia.

The representatives of the “National Geographic” magazine linguists Dr. David Harrison and Dr. Anderson, photographer Chris Rainier, and Jeremy Fahringer have come to Kalmykia in order to to get acquainted with the speakers of the national language.The linguists and anthropologists came to the steppe republic several days ago and managed to visit several districts so far.

The representatives of the American magazine say they did not hear anything about Kalmykia before and such an ancient language as the Kalmyk language has evoked special interest in the magazin’s editorial office. Today the delegation has met with the head of Kalmykia Alexey Orlov.

Southern steppe of Russia
Elista, Republic of Kalmykia