This book is the first in the ethnographic series Stories about the Peoples of the Soviet Union which is being prepared by the Russian Language Publishers. It is intended for students of Russian with a knowledge of approximately 3000 words. The series will acquaint the reader with the various peoples living in the Soviet Union, their lives past and present, their abodes, dress and cuisine, their economic structures and their customs and folk crafts. The author of On the Great Russian Plain, the ...