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[edit] Origin

In 2005 a genetic study was published and revealed even more astonishing details that the Kuban territories' gene pool was by far the purest of all the Russian samples. ... which proves that ethnically, Russians are of Ukrainian origin. I'm just joking - of course it's not true. ;-)--Lysy (talk) 22:07, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Well actually specify what you mean by Ukrainian origin. If you mean Rus'ski as in origin of the great Rus then yes, if you mean the modern ethnic Ukrainians ie Malorossians (please let no one be insulted by this term, I just want to destinguish them from Ukarainians as in citizens of Ukraine) then there are quite several differences in the gene pool, particularly the Galician Ukrainians which the study shows are actually closer to...Tatars. Kuban kazak 23:52, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Here is the text: http://www.newsru.com/russia/28sep2005/russians.html http://www.kommersant.ru/k-vlast/get_page.asp?page_id=20053854-16.htm

Indeed, I meant Rus'ski origin and I thought this was the origin of modern ethnic Ukrainians. Thanks for the pointers. --Lysy (talk) 00:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Well its an origin for Belarussians, Cossacks, Pomorians, Russians, Ruthenians and Ukrainians (in no particular order) Kuban kazak 01:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On "Kubanization" by Kuban Kazak

Dear Kazache, Huculs from Karpaty believe that Jesus was also a Hucul. I’m sure they can prove it using a couple of publications from “reputable” newspapers or by organizing voting in the region. Your favorite article or its original and this type of citations of results of Kuban census: “in 2002 the Russian census finally allowed the Cossacks to be declared as a separate group, with an ability to specify it as ethnicity. The "Ukrainian" box received 0.0% ticks.” that you readily insert in all appropriate and not appropriate places all over WP have equal credibility. I do not want to analyze the “article” from professional point of view (though I am of appropriate qualification to make such analysis). I will just cite most “notable” phrases from the above named source that do not require special training to understand (Sorry, it will be in the original language):

“…с точки зрения повышения производительности труда выгоднее размещать тонкие высокотехнологичные сборочные производства на юге России, где пальцы населения наиболее приспособлены для сборки микропроцессоров, а горячие и не требующие тонкой моторики кистей рук производства (сталелитейные и подобного типа) -- на севере.” Till now I was convinced that microprocessors are assembled by robots.

“…после тысяч совмещений с полученных фотографий эталонных Жака и Марианны смотрели серые безликие овалы лиц. Такая картина даже у самых далеких от антропологии французов могла вызвать ненужный вопрос: а есть ли вообще французская нация?” Yes! French are not a nation! Vse kazly! Uraaa!! Za Rodinu!!!! And so do Ukrainians!

“…украинцы из левобережной Украины генетически так же близки к русским, как коми-зыряне, мордва и марийцы”. Ukrainians from Livoberezhzhya=Russians, Mordva=Russians -> Ukrainians from Livoberezhzhya=Mordva. And so on. We all are brothers after all… Except those tatars from Lvov (prokljati banderivci): “…между украинцами из Львова и татарами генетическое расстояние составляет всего 10 единиц.” And why not to use such a nice opportunity to involve here some politics: “Можно как угодно реагировать на эти строго научные факты, показывающие природную сущность эталонных электоратов Виктора Ющенко и Виктора Януковича”

Good enough for people to understand what was the purpose of this “article”. But not for Kazak who uses it for supporting his “original” ideas: “…the Kuban territories' gene pool was by far the purest of all the Russian samples.” [1]; “My opinion: the followng people Velikorossians, Malorossians, Belorossians, Pomorians, Carpathian Ruthenians and Cossacks are just the different variations of the Russian slavic group.” [2]

There is simple definition for such type of sources and claims: “yellow press” and “chauvinism”. And this why all civilized scientific community agreed long time ago not to conduct such type of research or not to present it in this way (but something like this [3] ). This is why “…часть исследования из-за недостатка государственного финансирования ученым пришлось выполнять совместно с зарубежными коллегами, которые на многие результаты наложили мораторий до выхода совместных публикаций в научной прессе.” Because even if this true statement and this publication will ever see the light in a reputable edition – it will have much different claims. And it will take even much more time and many more articles on the subject for historians to use these data in support of their new theories.

Nobody is obliged to recognize his real roots or nationality, nobody is prevented from creating his own myths about his origins, transform his identity, create his own ideology. This is all acceptable, but only in those cases, when such ideas are not imposed on others, or does not harm them in any way.

In case of WP remember (your own words and one of the correct arguments of local guru Irpen) – this is an encyclopedia, where credible information is extracted from reputable sources, compiled and organized to form and encyclopedic style article, but NOT and original research.

This will be my arguments for removing your “Kubanization” in WP.

Yours--Oleh Petriv 22:07, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

See your talk page, would you like the results of 2002 census? Or the appendix of 1926 (find it in any library). Or original manuscripts dating to Zaporozhian times. Face it. When Khmelnitskiy signed the Pereyaslavl agreement he meant it. When we moved to the Kuban we were NOT evicted (some remained and became petty peasents), but our lifestyle was the most important fact in here. We still live under the oath of Pereyaslavl. Since the end of the Sech Ukraine has changed, Cossacks have changed. Our common history splintered, sure there is more things that unite us slavs that separate, but its like telling the Irish they are English. Our culture, tongue, traditions, religion (Greco-Catholic in the west of Ukraine, one of the original sworn opponents of Cossacks) etc. went and still going in different paths of development. -- Kuban kazak 22:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

1926 census I believe currentely does not exist in an online form. Krasnodar state library contains the original 1927 published atlas, massive in size, with maps and endless statistics. I presume if you live on the territory of former FSU you will be able to obtain a copy.

2002 census Thank you. From the tables I can see next: All population: 145166731, Ukrainians: 2942961. 2942961 from 145166731 is 2.03%. Please kindly put this number in the text. I will do it.--Oleh Petriv 23:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

OK. My mistake - that was all population of Russia. Could you point me out where is data on Kuban?--Oleh Petriv 00:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


http://195.133.159.86/ct/html/TOM_04_03_3.htm

Scroll down from there, Cossacks appear under Russian headings. Kuban' is presentely devided between Adygea, KBR, KChR and Krasnodar Krai. Respectevelly Cossacks populate 470, 1307, 2501, 17542. The Stavropolian Cossacks are currentely united with the Terek Cossacks host. -- Kuban kazak 00:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Aj da Kazak! Nu i shutnik! Here are data from above link:

Republic Total Cossacks Ukrainians Ukrainians (rural)
Adygea 447109 470 (0.11%) 9091 (2.03%) 3512 (0.79%)
Kabardino-Balkaria 901494 307 (0.03%) 7592 (0.84%) 1410 (0.15%)
Karachaevo-Cherkesia 439470 2501 (0.57%) 3331 (0.77%) 1191 (0.27%)
Krasnodarskiy Krai 5125221 17542 (0.34%) 131774 (2.57%) 55754 (1.09%)
TOTAL in Kuban 6913294 20820 (0.3%) 151788 (2.2%) 61867 (0.9%)

In Russia: Rural Population : 38737683 Rural Ukrainian Population: 691793 % of Rural Ukrainian population as a fraction of Russia's: (1.79%)

Expeceted Ukrainian rural population in Kuban: 123747. Population deficiency in the Kuban: -61880

Thus in the Kuban there are twice as less Ukrainians as expected in Russia. (Same as in Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk roughly)

And did they tick that they are Cossacks? No.

Now considering the amount of migrant workers we get these days (hey after all the growth of your economy is falling, and I mean soon it will not even be controlled from Kiev at all, who else will you turn to? ;) Our Ataman has four of such people repairing his datcha. My wife is Ukrainian as well. So your point is?

And here is another interesting referenece only 4368 Ukrainians in Russia know Ukrainian. -- Kuban kazak 13:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

See, Kazache, the article is on Cossaks. I know it is important for you to prove that Ukrainians are... but it is not releavant here (minimum) and your interpretaion of data is biased (another story). My point is presented in numbers on the page. As you like to advise me, I would also suggest you to read more of the press published neither in Russia, or even Ukraine. Then you may find different trends in Ukrainian economy. Also you will study that speaking Ukrainian does not mean to be the one, and vise versa. And so on...--Oleh Petriv 16:08, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Please cool it! --Irpen 18:37, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

We actually found compromise :)--Oleh Petriv 21:39, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The census table in the article claims that 1,140,028 people in Russia declared themselves as Cossacks. More than one million. Is this really correct ? --Lysytalk to me 19:21, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

In reality there are probably a LOT more, since they only listed those who are of ethnic Cossack origin and who serve in Cossack hosts. They did not list those who are of non-ethnic Cossack origin but who serve in hosts as Cossacks and they aslo forgot that preatty much all of historic Cossack lands are populated by their successors who listed themselves as normal Russians rather than Cossacks, because they do not serve in hosts. But that number will continue to increase.-- Kuban kazak 17:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kuban Cossack identity

With all due respect Mr. Kuban Cossack what do you mean by "completely out of any consideration" ? There are some people of Kuban Cossack heritage who "never agreed to identify themselves as ethnically Russian or Ukrainian" but there are many others who today identify themselves as Russians, or as a mixture of Russian and Ukrainian ethnicities. Fisenko 03:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Census data of Krasnodar Krai: [4]
Russians:4436272
 Cossacks:17542
Ukrainians:131774

Cossacks in the census are given as a subgroup of Russians, nothing about the Ukrainians. Statistically more than 50% of the Ukrainians were not born in Krasnodar Krai. (I mean there are gastarbaiters on my roof right now, from Ukraine) the other half mostly lives in Urban areas. As for the rest...my wife is from Rivne, so I cannot really say anything about that. In reality all rural places in Krasnodar Krai show some Cossack descent.

Genetically speaking, giving the amount of interhost marriages and warbrides, Cossacks never would fall for being a ethnically pure race. (For the record out all my great great....great grandmothers there will be Serbians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Turkish, Circassians and who knows who else.) However in our culture and in our way of style it is what makes us Cossacks, and what makes us Russian. As for our Zaporozhian ancestry... hey term Ukrainian did not exist then as to describe ethnicity, and we were certainly not Malorossian peasents. Finally please respect the naming convenstion Kazak or Cossack. Not Koza or Kozel-k, that we reserve for laughing at people like these--Kuban Cossack 03:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Look into the 2002 census and find the minute percentage of Ukrainian Gasterarbaiters there. All Rural Kuban is Russian, some chose to be called Cossakcs, but as a Russian subgroup - Kuban Cossack

This was not my point. My point was not all people of Kuban Cossack heritage consider themselves to be a "separate Ruthenian subgroup" in the sense of claiming a separate ethnic identity. There are also people of Kuban/Don/Terek etc. Cossack heritage who identifies themselves as Russians (or people of Zaporozhian heritage who identify themselves as Ukrainians) and view Cossack idenitity as a sosloviye i.e. "class" much like kupechesto or dvoryanstvo. I wasn't claiming Kuban Cossacks to be Ukrainian. Recpectefully. Fisenko 03:58, 7 March 2006 (UTC)


There are also people of Kuban/Don/Terek etc. Cossack heritage who identifies themselves as Russians Do you want census data for Rostov or Dagestan regions? Zaporozhian heritage who identify themselves as Ukrainians - but not in the Kuban, what the figures and statistics prove, and what I can safetely say as being a Kuban Cossack. In terms of class, our way of lifestyle is sacred to us, but yes I suppose you are right it is class. Actually Cossack is really a homograph. A person of non-Cossack heritage would have been registered a Cossack had he been in active service upon census taking. A Cossack with Cossack heritage and not having been in active survice would not have been registered (the most common category - all registered as Russian(!) ) Finally, the majority of the 140028 Cossacks who came up on the cesus would have been those who were in active service, and who Cossack heritage, too registered as Russian, because to be a Cossack, one has to be of patriotic Russian spirit. Like Pushkin, despite his ancestry he remains a Russian poet. Obrussevshiy, it is called. --Kuban Cossack 04:06, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree on you on everything you said. However, the sentense :

Kuban Cossacks never agreed to identify themselves as ethnically Russian or Ukrainian but rather claimed to be a separate Ruthenian subgroup.

will give many people a wrong impression. This phrase will gave impression to many people that all Kuban Cossacks consider themselves something like Rusyns - its own separate East Slavic/Ruthenian ethnic group with its own culture and language or dialect and a distinct ethnic identity, rather than a sub-group or soslovye within the Russian people. (they are in reality something much more like a cross between a cultural sub-group like the Russian Pomors and purely historic/political warrior class like Serbian Chetniks) Fisenko 17:15, 7 March 2006 (UTC) (The proud descendant of Malorussian peasants ;))


That is where the western and Russian nomenclature comes into conflict: Muscouvy in all Russian publication this point in history is always referred to as Moskovian Ruthenia, and the dwellers of that place were Ruthenians. When Ivan the III changed Ruthenia to Russia. Dwellers of Russia became Russians which consisted of Ruthenians, Tatars etc. (read Gumelyov about this, he seems to have a very intersting theory about how subethnical groups merge into a larger one and etc) Now after Russia regained all of the lands of Kievan Ruthenia, dwellers of those lands became Little and White Ruthenians, whilst dwellers of original northeastern Ruthenia became Great Ruthenians.
However all would have been good had the name confusion in the late 19th/early 20th centuryies not happened when Great Ruthenians became Ruthenians; Little Ruthenians became Edge-dwellers (nothing offensive; I am just sticking to original terminology here); White Ruthenians remained White Ruthenians. Now this is how the problem with original terminology looks in Russian, derictely translated into English. Now turining it into common accepted words: Russians, Ukrainians Belarusians.
WRT to Carpathian Ruthenians - they always called themselves Rusyns as did Galicians before Austrains began to de Russophile them in their power struggle for the rule of the Balkan Slavs (re: Masscre of Talergoff). Finally for the Trancartpathia Rusyns managed to preserve their lifestyle until in 1945 Soviet authorities re-wrote everybody there as Ukrainian.
Anyway I see what you are trying to say, feel free to add that into the article (I am currentely overoccupied with trollish behaivour on Kiev Metro and Lviv.)

--Kuban Cossack 17:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Sources

Does the author have any external sources to refer to? I'm skeptical of the presentation of information in this article and its neutrality Zshzn 17:01, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

What exactly do you have in question?--Kuban Cossack 18:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
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