Essays on Great Perm's early history: oikonymic grounds

Researchers who reconstruct ethnic history of Great Perm have to use not just written sources but methods of auxiliary historical disciplines, for example historical toponymics. The names of oikonyms and hydronyms of XV century, which were located within Great Perm and taken from Vychegodskii-Vymskaya, Ioasafovskaya, Nikon Chronicles and from Moscow Chronicle of the end of the XV century, were chosen for analysis. The reconstruction of ethnic situation in Perm the Great in the XV–XVI centuries is based on the analysis of local oikonyms. The toponyms Pokcha, Kemzelka (possibly Uros) and Vottskaya originate from the Udmurt language or, even more, indicate the ethnicity of the population and its origin from the territory of the basins of the Cheptsa and Vyatka rivers. The names Cherdin, Iskor, Vymkar show the connection of early population of Great Perm with Perm of Vychegda (the basins of the Vym and Vychegda rivers). Historical and toponymic analyses of the basin of the Kolva river show that the population of the region was formed of the foreigners from the North (the basin of the Vychegda river) and from the West (the basins of the Cheptsa and Vyatka rivers). The data analysis of Komi oikonyms coincides with the results of previous studies of the names of Great Perm sotniks which allows to admit that a general conclusion about the heterogeneity of the Komi population of Great Perm is objective.