Tatiana Yuryevna Achirgina

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Tatjana Jurjewna Achirgina ( Russian Татьяна Юрьевна Ачиргина ; born December 16, 1944 in Markowo , Chukotka , Russia ) is a Russian-Eskimo journalist and poet . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , she campaigned for the rights of the indigenous peoples of Russia and for close relations with the Eskimos of Greenland , Canada and the United States in various organizations .

Life

Achirgina was born in 1944 in the village of Markovo in Chukotka. Her father, Yuri Achirgin from the Eskimo village of Kiwak, studied at the Institute of the Peoples of the North of the State Pedagogical Alexander Heart University in Leningrad in the 1930s . There he met his future wife, Sinaida Mitrofanowna Bodarewa, who came from a Chuwan family and later worked as a teacher. The family lived in Lavrentiya at the end of the 1940s , where Achirgin worked for the District Prosecutor's Office . After his untimely death in the fall of 1948, the family moved to Anadyr .

Tatiana Achirgina graduated from school in Anadyr in 1961 and then studied journalism at the Gorky State University of the Urals in Sverdlovsk . She returned to Chukotka and became a correspondent for a local radio station . In 1967 she was one of the founders of the television studio in Anadyr.

Atschirgina wrote her first poems at university, but it was not until the 1970s that individual poems were published in local newspapers and anthologies . Her love poetry, presented in 1978 by the poet Andrei Dementjew (1928–2018) in the Smena , was awarded the magazine's special prize. In 1982 her volume of poetry Белоночье ( White Nights ) was published.

Atschirgina has been politically committed to preserving the cultural traditions of the Siberian Eskimos since the late 1980s. She is also committed to deepening relations between the Siberian Yupik and the Inupiat Alaskas . In 1989 she took part in the founding congress of the Association of Indigenous Small Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East . In the same year she was part of the delegation of Siberian Eskimos who attended the meeting of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) in Sisimiut as an observer . After the Eskimo society "Yupik", founded by Lyudmila Ainana , contributed to the ICC in 1992, Achirgina was elected president of the ICC Chukotka several times. Since 2009 she has also been Vice President of the International ICC.

Tatiana Achirgina's son Aleksei Wachruschew (* 1969) is a documentary film director . In 1993 she produced his first film "Время Таяния Снов" (German roughly: time of melting dreams ) about the fate of the Eskimos who moved to Novoje Tschaplino in 1958/1959 , which received several awards.

Works

  • Белоночье: стихи. Магаданское книжное издательство, Магадан 1982.
  • Paianitok! In: Études / Inuit / Studies . Volume 16, No. 1/2, 1992, pp. 47-50.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography on the official website of the Association of Indigenous Minorities of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, accessed on November 11, 2018 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Валентина Леонова: От возрождения традиций к сбережению народа . In: Крайний Север on July 13, 2015 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Pamela R. Stern: Historical Dictionary of the Inuit . 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-7911-9 , pp. 18 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Tatiana Achirgina. President, ICC Chukotka and ICC Vice-Chair on the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada website, accessed November 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Время Таяния Снов on the website www.highlatitudes.ru, accessed on November 13, 2018 (Russian).

Web links

  • Poems by Tatiana Achirginas on zorinanata.ru (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Achirgina, Tatiana Jurjewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ачиргина, Татьяна Юрьевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Eskimo journalist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Markovo , Russia