Leonid Pavlovich Potapov

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Leonid Pavlovich Potapov ( Russian Леонид Павлович Потапов , pronunciation [ lʲɪanʲiˑt paˑvɫəvʲɪtʃʲ pataˑpɐf ]) (* 6. July 1905 in Barnaul ; † 9. October 2000 in Komarowo ) was a Soviet anthropologist and historian who is primarily concerned with the culture of Altai , Shores , Khakass , Tuvins and other peoples of South Siberia dealt with.

biography

Potapov was born in Barnaul, attended secondary school there and then began studying ethnography at the Faculty of Geography at the Leningrad State University . In 1925, 1926 and 1927 he collected material on research trips in the Altai .

After graduating in 1928, Potapov took a position at the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) of the Uzbek SSR and organized expeditions to remote areas of the republic.

In 1930 Potapov became an aspirant of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . He also headed the Siberian Department and the ethnographic section of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Leningrad.

In 1939 Potapov defended his dissertation as a candidate in the history of science . During the siege of Leningrad by the fascist German troops, he took part in the defense of the city, also continued his scientific work and prepared the evacuation of the museum's collections. In 1942 he went to Novosibirsk and from there to Barnaul and Gorno-Altajsk , where he taught at the Pedagogical Institute for a short time.

In 1946 Potapov obtained the title of professor. He spent the following eleven years mainly on research trips to the Altai, Shores, Khakass and Tuvinians and dealt with shamanism and other pre-Islamic religions of the peoples of Central Asia. In 1948 he published his Очерки по истории алтайцев ( essays on the history of the Altaians ) in Novosibirsk , for which he received the Stalin Prize .

1957 to 1966 Potapov carried out research trips and archaeological work with the Tuvinians and dealt with their ethnogenesis and history. Some of his essays from this period have also been published in English by the University of Chicago . He also took part in scientific congresses in Western Europe.

meaning

Potapov founded a scientific school of research into the peoples of Siberia , especially in the Sajan- Altai region . Among his most important contributions are his work on shamanism in the Altai. In addition to the Stalin Prize, he was a. a. In 1996 he was awarded the gold medal of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference , which the Russian researchers Nikolaus Poppe , Wera I. Zinzius , Nikolaj A. Baskakow and Aleksandr M. Stscherbak had already received.

literature

  • Saul Matveevič Avramzon, Vera Pavlovna D'jakonova: On the 70th birthday of Leonid Pavlovič Potatapov . Yearbook of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig, Vol. XXXI. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1977.

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personal data
SURNAME Potapov, Leonid Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Потапов, Леонид Павлович (Russian writing)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet ethnologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnaul
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2000
Place of death Komarovo