Tuwa

A royal grave (dated seventh century B.C.) still shows vital details of the conditions of warrior horsemen in their formative phase. This is the grave at Arzan in Tuwa, opened under the guidance of the Nestor of Siberian archeology, M. P. Grjaznov.[…] Right: plan of the Arzan kugan in Tuwa (seventh century B.C.). Model of a city in the beyond, into which the deceased will move.

In a Japan-Russia cooperative botanical expedition in the Central Siberia in 1993, several wood samples of Betula, including small shrubs, were collected from Kudznetskiy Alatau Mts. in Khakas Republic and West Sayan Range in Tuwa Republic.

In this film Ute Gebhardt looks at shamanistic healing rituals in Tuwa, which today is part of the Russian Federation. In Tuwa shamanism was able to survive five and a half decades of Soviet communism. Even today there is a shamanistic clinic in Tuwa’s capital Kyzyl.

The ancestors of the reindeer breeders originate from Tuwa, which is now an autonomous constituent republic of Russia.