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Region
Altai Republic; Kumandin areas of Altai Krai
First record
1884 · Empires & migration
Fold
Heap of small pieces
Cooked
Cooked in rich mutton, horse or yak broth

Anatomy

Inside

Dough
Wheat dough
Made with
Unfilled dough squares or balls
Cooked
Cooked in rich mutton, horse or yak broth
Served
A ritual harvest-festival dish among the Kumandins
Size
About 6 cm across
Note
A borderline case: it stretches the definition of a dumpling.

Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story, a recipe or a precise place of origin for Tutpash. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Range

Where

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From Altai Republic; Kumandin areas of Altai Krai.

Pin · Altai Republic (Gorno-Altaysk) · region (first-level subdivision), not a town

How sure we are

Evidence

Fairly sure. A dated text records it by 1884.

We list 1 source: 1 dated text. How grading works.

First record Verbitsky, dictionary of the Altai and Aladag dialects, 1884: "tutmash, tutpash", pieces torn from a finger-thick roll of dough (D); first found, the tutpash form is marked Kumandin; read in the 2005 re-edition

Sources

  • D

    Словарь алтайскаго и аладагскаго нарѣчій тюркскаго языка (Kazan, 1884); read in the 2nd ed., Gorno-Altaisk: Ak Chechek, 2005, p. 382

    Dated text · V. I. Verbitsky; scan of the 2005 edition at Internet Archive · 1884

    p. 382 of the 2005 re-edition (leaf n193): "Тутмаш (н-б.), тутпаш (к.) лапша, отрывки от рассученного в палец толщиной пресного теста." The front matter explains "н-б. - нижне-бийский" and that the lower-Biya… p. 382 of the 2005 re-edition (leaf n193): "Тутмаш (н-б.), тутпаш (к.) лапша, отрывки от рассученного в палец толщиной пресного теста." The front matter explains "н-б. - нижне-бийский" and that the lower-Biya sub-dialect is "кумандинское"; "Конд." is the Kondoma (Shor) sub-dialect, which is what "(к.)" appears to stand for. The same dictionary has "Перек (в-к.) пельмени с говядиной и салом" (upper Kondoma) and "Чупре ... пельмени" - filled dumplings among the Aladag (Shor) groups, not marked Kumandin. The re-edition reproduces the 1884 title page (Kazan, Pravoslavnoe missionerskoe obshchestvo) but resets the text in the modern alphabet.

Found by research in October 2026; awaiting editorial review.

History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.

Relatives

Kin