Yuri Wella
Juri Wella , born as Yuri Kylewitsch Aiwaseda , (born March 12, 1948 in Varjogan ; † September 12, 2013 ) was a Nenet writer , poet , activist and reindeer herder .
Life
Wella was born in the village of Varjogan in what was then known as the National Circle of Khanty and Mansi . His parents were Nenets and Chanten . He attended the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and exercised many professions in the course of his life: he was a hunter, fisherman, fish inspector, stove fitter, cattle breeder, head of a red tent (Krasny Tschum), teacher in the boarding school and chairman of the village council. He founded an ethnographic open-air museum in Varyogan.
Wella wrote in Russian , chan genetic and waldnenzischer language. His works have been published in the magazines Ural , Sever (North), Neva , Polyarnaya Zvezda (Polar Star) and Druzhba narodow (Friendship of Nations) as well as in various anthologies. He wrote the books Westi is stoibishcha ( News from the nomadic habitat , 1991) and Belye kriki ( White Screams , 1996). In 1997, the first art book in the Waldnenzisch language, a collection of Wella's poems, was published in Moscow as a monograph. Wella's works have been translated into French, German and Estonian.
Wella was an activist for the indigenous peoples of northern Russia . At the beginning of the 1990s he and his colleagues blocked a road that was used by oil workers near Novoagansk , thus drawing attention to the situation of the indigenous peoples in the oil production areas. The documentary film Yuri Vella's World , published in 2003, reports on his life and work .
Web links
- Юрий Вэлла - Juri Vella jurivella.ru, page with materials by and about Wella, accessed on March 22, 2016.
- Mourning for Nenet activist and writer Juri Vella on infoe.de, accessed on February 15, 2016.
- Yuri Vella, in memoriam: Filming and Being Filmed. at World Film Festival, accessed February 14, 2016.
- Yuri Vella (Yuri Kylevich Aivaseda) passed away on stephandudeck.wordpress.com, accessed on February 15, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Чтобы поздравить Юрия Вэлла с юбилеем, нужно пройти обряд очищения души on tyumen.rfn.ru (Russian).
- ↑ Documentary Educational Resources: THE Documentary: Yuri Vella's World. der.org, accessed February 14, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wella, Juri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aiwaseda, Juri Kylewitsch (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nenan writer, poet, activist and reindeer herder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Varyogan |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12th, 2013 |