The UN is concerned about reports of the genocide of the Shors in the Russian Federation

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Forgive me, three days ago I did not even know that such a small people live in the Russian Federation and on the planet Earth in general - Shors.

On the coat of arms of the Soviet Union, in which I was born and lived half of my life, only 15 union republics were indicated and the inscriptions were made in Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Georgian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Tajik, Turkmen, Belarusian, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Moldavian, Kyrgyz, Armenian and Estonian languages. Therefore, the fact that Shors also exist in Russia was a cultural discovery for me! And the discovery, alas, not joyful, but sad, although not surprising …

Well, really, why be surprised ?! If in relation to the state-forming people - the Russians - in the 21st century, some are satisfied with the so-called "vaccine genocide" (about this even the chief sanitary doctor G. Onischenko told recently, why is this many-sided some should treat the small Shors somehow better than the Russians?

From time immemorial, this small people lived in the southeastern part of Western Siberia, mainly in the south of the Kemerovo region (in Tashtagolsky, Novokuznetsk, Mezhdurechensky, Myskovsky, Osinnikovsky and other districts), as well as in some adjacent areas of the Republic of Khakassia and the Republic of Altai, Krasnoyarsk and Altai regions. The total number of Shors is a little over 12 thousand people. The Shors are divided into two ethnographic groups: the southern, or mountain taiga (at the beginning of the 20th century, the area inhabited by the southern Shors was called Gornaya Shoria), and the northern, or forest-steppe (the so-called Abins). In terms of language, the Shors are closest to the Altaians and Khakass, in terms of culture - the Altaians and Chulyms. Until 1926, the common self-name of all clan groups of the Shors (Abintsy, Shors, Kalarians, Kargins and others) was tadar-kizhi (Tatar man). The name of the Turkic-speaking population of the Southern Kuzbass "Shors" was fixed by the authorities in all official documents, taking into account the statements of Academician V. Radlov about the ethnocultural unity of the so-called Mras and Kondomsk Tatars. Modern self-names are as tadar-kizhiand shor-kizhi.

Most of the Shors speak Russian, over 60% consider Russian to be their native language; In the Shor language, until recently, it was customary to distinguish two dialects - Mrass (Khakass (Kyrgyz-Uygur) group of East Turkic languages) and Kondomsky (North Altai group of Western Turkic languages), each of which, in turn, broke up into a number of dialects. A source:

This is how the Shors lived in pre-revolutionary Russia:

Shor women with children.

This and other black-and-white photographs presented below were taken in 1913 during G. I. Ivanov's land surveying expedition. The expedition took place along the Mrassa river from Kuznetsk and somewhere to the Ust-Kabyrza ulus. Its purpose was to map the area, familiarize and study local settlements and nationalities.

An old shorka woman is preparing firewood. 1913 g.

Young Shorets in traditional national dress:

Way of travel on the roads of Gornaya Shoria. Cradle.

The life of the Shors in Tsarist Russia:

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Russians called the Shorts "Kuznetsk Tatars", "Kondomsky and Mras Tatars", and Abins. They called themselves by the names of clans (Karga, Kyi, Kobiy, etc.), volosts and administrations (Tayash-Chony - Tayash volost) or rivers (Mras-kizhi - Mrass people, Kondum-chons - Kondoma people), outside the territory residence - aba-kizhi (aba - clan, kizhi - people), chysh-kizhi (people of the taiga). Altaians and Khakassians called them by the name of the Shor clan. This name has spread widely and was introduced as an official one in the 20th century.

In 1925, the Gorno-Shorsk national region was formed with its center in the village of Myski, then in the village of Kuzedeevo. The area was abolished in 1939. The number of Shors in 1926 was 14 thousand people. (In 2002, the number of Shors was 13,975 people, in 2010 it decreased to 12,888 people. The extinction of this small people in modern Russia is evident. Comment - A. B.)

Until the 19th century, one of the main occupations of the Shors was iron smelting and forging, especially developed in the north. They paid tribute to the Turkic kagans with iron products. They were exchanged with nomads for cattle, felt. Since the 18th century, iron products have been sold to Russian merchants. The Russians called them "Kuznetsk people", and their land - "Kuznetsk land"

The Cossacks who came to the south of Western Siberia at the beginning of the 17th century, sent by the Russian tsar, were so impressed by the development of blacksmithing among the local population that they called this region Kuznetskaya Land, and its indigenous inhabitants - Kuznetsk Tatars.

Conqueror of Siberia Ermak Timofeevich (1532-1585), Cossack chieftain.

According to the traditional worldview of the Shors, the world is divided into three spheres: the heavenly, where the supreme deity Ulgen is located, the middle one - the earth where people live, and the abode of evil spirits - the underworld, where Erlik rules

In earthly life, the ancient Shors were engaged in smelting and forging metals, hunting, fishing, cattle breeding, primitive manual farming, and gathering.

Iron products made by Shor blacksmiths were famous throughout Siberia. With them they paid tribute (Alban, Alman) to the Dzungars and Yenisei Kirghiz, however, with the arrival of the Cossacks, a ban was imposed on these "strategic" crafts (smelting and forging iron) so that the Siberian peoples who had not yet conquered could not order military armor and equipment from local gunsmiths.

Gradually, the professional skill of the Shors - iron craftsmen - was lost, and even the “Kuznetsk Tatars” gave the tribute to the Moscow tsar as furs. So hunting became the main occupation of the Shors.

Initially, driven hunting for large ungulates prevailed (deer, elk, maral, roe deer), later - fur trade (squirrel, sable, fox, Siberian weasel, otter, ermine, lynx) - until the 19th century with a bow, then with guns obtained from Russian merchants. From 75 to 90% of the Shorts' households (in 1900) were engaged in hunting. The animal was hunted within the tribal hunting territory by artels of 4-7 people (initially - from relatives, then - from neighbors). They lived in seasonal dwellings made of branches and bark (odag, agys). We used skis (shana), hemmed with kamus. On a hand sled (shanak) or a drag (surtka) they dragged the load. The booty was divided equally among all members of the artel.

Fishing was the main source of food. In the lower reaches of the rivers, it was the main occupation, in other places, from 40 to 70% of farms were engaged in it (in 1899). They moved along the river with the help of poles on dugout boats (kebes) and birch barks.

Gathering was an additional activity. In spring, women collected tubers, roots, bulbs and stems of sarana, kandyk, wild onion, wild garlic, peony, hogweed. The roots and tubers were dug out with a root digger-ozup, which consisted of a curved cutting 60 cm long with a transverse crossbar-pedal for the foot and an iron blade-blade at the end. They collected a lot of nuts and berries, in the 19th century - for sale. Families and artels went for pine nuts, living in the taiga for several weeks. Temporary shelters were built in the forest, tools and devices for collecting nuts were made of wood and birch bark - beaters (tokpak), graters (paspak), sieves (elek), winnowing machines (argash), baskets. Beekeeping was known for a long time, beekeeping was borrowed from the Russians.

Before the arrival of the Russians, slash-and-burn hoe farming was widespread on the southern gentle slopes. For this, the family settled in a temporary dwelling on arable land for several weeks. The earth was loosened with a hoe (abyl), harrowed with a bough. They sowed barley, wheat, hemp. We returned to arable land in the fall for harvesting. The grain was threshed with a stick, stored in birch bark vats on piles, and ground in hand-held stone mills. With the development of contacts with the Russians in the north in the steppe and mountainous regions, plowed agriculture and Russian agricultural implements spread: a plow, sometimes a plow, a harrow, a sickle, a water mill. Large areas were sown, mainly with wheat. From the Russians, the Shors learned stall breeding of horses, as well as a harness, a cart, a sleigh.

The Shors lived in communities (seoks) that were governed quite democratically: the headman (pashtyka) was elected at a tribal meeting, which was considered the highest authority. Here, there were also trials, during which six people were allocated to help the pashty, most often - highly experienced elders. The judges made their decision for public discussion, they asked their fellow tribesmen: "charar ba?" (do you agree?), if the majority said "charar" (agree), then the verdict entered into force, if not, the case was considered again. Everything adopted at the generic meeting was subject to mandatory execution.

Now I will tell you about a sad fact: the Shors are slowly but surely dying out! From 2002 to 2010, the excess of mortality over birth rate amounted to almost 8% of the total number of Shors for 8 years! And the Shors are dying out with speed 1% per year not due to any natural reasons, it is obvious, in the opinion of the Shors themselves, "the deliberate creation of living conditions calculated for the complete or partial physical destruction of this group." And this, by the way, is one of the paragraphs describing a crime against humanity, which has no statute of limitations, called GENOCIDE.

Satellite photograph of the area. In the center is the Shor village of Kazas, where the coal miners have deliberately created conditions impossible for people to live in.

The cynicism and meanness of the newcomer local authorities were appreciated and experienced by a resident of Kuzbass Yuri Bubentsov, who did not stay away from the disaster that befell the Shors and decided to become their human rights activist:

How the local authorities reacted to such an initiative of the Shors, you can find out from the following video "Special operation of the Myskovsk police, in order to deprive voters of the opportunity to meet with the State Duma deputies":

The shouts of indignation of the Shors and their pleas in 2015 were able to reach the representatives of United Nations(UN), founded with the participation of the USSR in 1945.

The fact that the UN is already concerned about the numerous reports of genocide carried out by the local Russian authorities against the Kuzbass Shors is indicated by this document:

This document is dated 2015, only, as they say, "things are still there"!

After all that they have done, the coal oligarchs are now simply obliged to build for the surviving Shors, and this is only a little more than 12 thousand people, several comfortable villages in an ecologically clean place of Siberia! And until this happens, the Russians have every right to sound the alarm and shout to the whole world about the fact of the open genocide being perpetrated in modern Russia!

August 5, 2018 Murmansk. Anton Blagin

A comment Yuri Bubetsov:

Today, in this God-forsaken region, where countless natural resources have taken down the "roof" of more than one oligarch, the extraction of natural resources is carried out with monstrous violations of environmental norms, and what is especially sad - the rights of the inhabitants of the region to a decent life, are recognized by the oligarchs and the authorities affiliated with them insignificant! The pathetic attempts of residents to defend their rights are harshly suppressed by law enforcement officers who are vigilantly guarding the interests of the oligarchs. I have experienced this the hard way. All the fault and trouble of the Shors is that they live on a land rich in minerals. It has already reached the point that the age-old national settlements of the Shors are set on fire, and people are actually expelled from their lands! In this regard, the fate of the Shor village of Kazas is remarkable. Coal oligarchs-bandits first poisoned the water, air, intimidated people, but even then the Shors courageously refused to leave their native land. And only then, making sure that the people would stand up to the last, the claimants to the rich land burned the village to the ground. (They committed massive arson!) Law enforcement agencies opened dozens of criminal cases, but not a single criminal was found, not a single case was brought to court. I would like to focus on the cynical attitude of deputies of all levels, authorities, media and, of course, restless human rights defenders shouting from all tribunes about the violation of the rights of their fellow tribesmen to the troubles of residents.

With great difficulty and risk to their lives, some Shors managed to reach the UN and international human rights organizations. Accredited experts came and found violations of the rights of the small Shor people, and therefore of other peoples living in this territory. At a meeting of the UNPO committees, a resolution was adopted demanding that the Russian authorities stop the genocide of small peoples. That is, signs of genocide have been identified! And European human rights activists even began to demand from their authorities to stop the import of Kuzbass coal, "soaked in tears and blood of the peoples living in the Kemerovo region."

Once, speaking to the deputies of the city of Myskov, the general director of the Kizassky open-pit Nikolai Zarubin, who, incidentally, is a member of the Vostok-Ugol holding, affiliated with Arctic Logistics, I asked the question: "If you are a Russian person, then why don't you respect the rights of residents, don't you value your native nature? " To which he proudly replied: "I'm not Russian!" …