I'm not sure what timeframe you are asking about. 

Mikhail Alkekseevsky has a chapter on "Treating the 'Other Animals': Russian Enthnoveterinary Practices in the Context of Folk Medicine" in Costow and Nelson (eds), Other Animals: Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History. You could probably reach him through his academia.edu page: http://centrfolk.academia.edu/MikhailAlekseevsky 

The folks at the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg have information on sub-recent konovaly, traveling Russian smith-vet-farrier-healer-gelders. I have some photos of some of them and of the implements they used, and I can put you in touch, if you'd like. 

These specialists probably stemmed from earlier Inner Asian traditions, where the healer-metalworker connection developed. The transformative powers of the metalworker were considered related, and less only, to those of various healer-shamans. The office of the smith was hereditary, and with each generation, their powers increased. Like shamans, smiths could be black or white, and could perform many of the non-magical duties of the shaman. It was the blacksmith who made the ornaments for the shaman’s coat (Czaplicka 1914: 210-211).

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