In the traditional economic activities of the Russians, as well as other East Slavic peoples, in most of the territory of their settlement, animal husbandry occupied the second most important place after agriculture. This explains the breadth of the complex of representations and animal rites in the Russian folk calendar. Apotropaic and producing rites were timed to coincide with almost all calendar cycles. Livestock rituals are traditionally considered by ethnographers in the context of a particular festive ritual cycle, while the national calendar is a complex structure in which individual components often exist relatively autonomously. First of all, this applies to rituals related to production cycles - flax processing, spinning and weaving, agriculture, as well as animal husbandry. In this paper, an attempt is made to characterize the livestock rituals of the national calendar as a single annual cycle, to analyze their internal organization and structure. The study is based on the example of Russian traditions of the Perm Kama region. As you know, the diversity of Russian traditional culture is caused by the settlement of the Russian ethnic group in the vast expanses of Eurasia, which was accompanied by the formation of local features. The culture of the Russians of the Kama region was formed on the basis of the traditions of immigrants from the European North of Russia in the XVII-XVIII centuries. This explains the proximity of the Kama cultural complex to the Northern Russian one. As a result of adaptation to the peculiarities of the natural and climatic environment and the established features of economic management, the traditions of immigrants in the Kama region acquired specific features. In addition, the peculiarity of the Kama region is the large Old Believer population, which also could not but affect the fate of traditional culture, especially the preservation of some of its archaic complexes. In general, the commonality of the Northern Russian base of ... Read more