Talk:Yakutian Laika

Height

I think that in the box on the right the height of the dog is incorrectly stated. In the article they are 50-60cm in height, in the box they are 50-56 inches in height. A dog over four feet at the shoulder would be really, really tall.

A controversial breed

Initially it was a dream of Vladimir Dyachkov to revive the Kolyma Laika (which was considered blue-eyed). In the 90s, when national consciousness was developing in the countries of the collapsed USSR, many enthusiasts wanted to revive dogs with so-called ancient history. On the territory of Yakutia till 50-80th years lived in the greater degree Yakuts and in the smaller small peoples (Yukagirs, Tungus, Evens, Chukchi, Koryaks, etc.), but after 80th Russians became more, than Yakuts (data is in the book of Alekseev on History of Yakutia in 3 volumes). Before the 20th centuries Laikas were defined on ethnic, not zonal-territorial basis, accordingly Laikas were called as Yukagirskaya, Tungusskaya (Evenki), etc. When Vladimir Dyachkov moved the dogs from Kolyma to Yakutia (where he met German Arbugaev, the main sponsor; Lena Sidorova, a former meat technologist, who later became an honoured cynologist; Stanislav Gorodilov, who probably wrote all these articles on Wikipedia, and he also became the president of YARAS). Cynological organisations register breeds that are already factory-bred. By location they registered not as Kolyma Laika, but as Yakutian Laika. Yakuts were cattle breeders to a large extent, they even defined their wealth and importance by this (that's why they have their own national Yakut horse. However, the sled dog in use was too.). In one of the old books by the same Dmitrieva-Sulima: ‘The types of sled dogs of the Ostyaks and Yakuts are different, the Indigir dogs differ from the Kolyma dogs, and both of them from the Amur dogs. In short, there are several breeds of sled dogs’. Seroshevsky had a division of Yakut dog (as he writes, not Laika and it's a problem that the language used is unformalised). He divided it into huntig and guard; seaside, sled dog and suburbann dog (which is a mix of Yakut and various other local dogs). Dmitrieva-Sulima criticised him for identifying the Yakutskaya (guard and hunting) with the Tunguska. The other thing is that these old books don't have more description of all these northern dogs as such. During Soviet times, many Laikas were lumped into an artificial territorial standard as ‘East Siberian’ or ‘West Siberian’ Laikas. The same thing happened with sled dogs and they were united in the group ‘North-Eastern sled dog’ (this standard was taken by those 4 enthusiasts as a basis for Yakutian Laika. However, in Yakutia, in parallel to this, there is a question about the revival of the Yakut hunting Laika and she was cloned, not this new breed). And it turned out that this new Yakutian Laika is as if trying to pass itself off as the unification of all dogs (including small-numbered peoples, as if only the Sakha people are involved in this, the Russians also had sled dogs, among others). DNA companies also do not yet dare to determine the exact origin of this breed, but there are similarities with markers of Huskies, various sheepdogs, herding dogs, etc. There is also someone's hypothesis that the blood of Kolyma-Indigir and Chukotka Laika has passed into the Husky breed. Wisalis (talk) 16:34, 14 December 2024 (UTC)