Nikolai Nikolayevich Cheboksarov

Nikolai Nikolaevich Tscheboksarow ( Russian Николай Николаевич Чебоксаров ; born April 10 ^{. Jul} / 23. April  1907 ^greg. In Harbin , China ; † 1. February 1980 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet ethnographer , anthropologist and doctor of historical sciences.

Life

Cheboksarov came from a family of Russian descent from Manchuria . He completed his academic career in the Soviet Union, where he successfully began to study ethnology at the Moscow State University . From 1943 he worked at the Institute for Anthropology and Ethnography of the USSR (Moscow), and from 1957 head of the department there for the Far East and Australia and Oceania . From 1951 to 1956, Cheboksarov was head of department and professor of ethnology at the history faculty of Moscow State University.

The main works of the researcher largely deal with historical developments and problems in the field of ethnology and anthropology of East Asia. He also deals with the origin and classification of human races . For his extensive studies and writings on ethnology, Nikolai Tscheboksarow and his wife Irina Abramowna (née Minskaya), a biologist , visited the most diverse ethnic groups and cultures in the Soviet Union, Finland, Poland, India, Indonesia, China, Japan and other countries.

Along with the anthropologist and primate researcher Michail F. Nesturch (1895–1979), he was also considered one of the leading ethnologists and racial researchers of socialist society in the GDR . Nikolai N. Cheboksarov was the bearer of the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union .

Publications in German (selection)

• with Irina Tscheboksarowa: peoples, races, cultures. Urania Verlag, 1979.
• with AI Perschiz: Half a Century of Soviet Ethnography. In: Yearbook of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig. Volume XXVII. Berlin 1970.
• with Lin Yao-hua: The economic-cultural types of China. In: Yearbook of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig. Volume XXII., Berlin 1962.