A historical document concerning the relations between the Committee of the Kalmyk cultural workers in Czechoslovakia and the A historical document concerning the relations between the Committee of the Kalmyk cultural workers in Czechoslovakia and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Kalmyk emigration in 1920th Czechoslovakia concentrated in Řevnice near Prague headed by Badma Ulanov accomplished a large cultural work in the difficult conditions of exile. Its objective has been to cultivate Oirat Mongolian in the Clear Script (todo üzüg) into a language competent to create the modern literature.
In the short history of Kalmyks in Czechoslovakia, an attempt to establish contacts between the Committee of the Kalmyk cultural workers in Czechoslovakia and the predecessor of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences Mongol sudar bičig-ün küriyeleng is of a special interest. The introductory article of the Czechoslovak Kalmyks' journal "Ulan Zalat" translated here shows the profound interest of the Kalmyk exile in the cultural and national development in Mongolia.