Folklore
The folklore of the Izvatas is represented by a variety of genres, among them wedding laments, wedding songs, funeral and lullabies lamentations, labor improvisations, comic choruses and songs, stories and fairy tales, everyday hunting stories, superstitious prose.
One of the key components of Izhma folklore is the Izhma Kolva epos – a unique example of oral creativity of the northern Komi and the Kolva Nenets (Yaran) speaking the Izhma dialect of the Komi language. The Izhma Kolva epos is represented by the epic songs of the Izhma reindeer herders, often performed in both the Komi and Nenets manner. The performers themselves call the performed epic works yaran sylankyvyas (the Nenets songs), yaran moydyas (the Nenets tales), sylemen yaran moydyas (the Nenets sung tales), yaran moydyas izvatas kylen (the Nenets tales in the Izhma language). The first recordings of these songs were made by the Hungarian scientist Baratoshi Benedek in 1911 on the Kanin Peninsula. However, it was only in 1956-58 that folklorists Y. Rochev and E. Vasoi discovered in the Kolva River basin on the border of the Usinsky district of the Komi Republic and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug the existence of a Komi epic tradition in the culture of the so-called Kolva Yaran. The main collection of Izhma Kolva folklore was recorded in 1950-1970 in the Izhmo-Pechorsky district of the Komi Republic, on the Kola and Kaninsky Peninsulas, as well as in Yamal among the population speaking the Izhma dialect of the Komi language.
Among modern examples of folk art, oral stories about the healer Tandze Marya can be noted.