Wassili Kondratjewitsch Alymow

Wassili Kondratjewitsch Alymow ( Russian Василий Кондратьевич Алымов ; born April 4, 1883 in Rutschi , † October 22, 1938 in Sestrorezk ) was a Russian ethnographer and co-founder of Sami research in the Soviet Union.

Life

Vasily Alymow was born in 1883 as the son of farmers in the village of Rutschi in the governorate of Saint Petersburg, today Leningrad Oblast . After completing school he worked as a geodesist, among other things .

In 1922 he moved to Murmansk , where he worked from then on in the administration of the then Okrug Murmansk as an economist , statistician and specialist in minority issues. As a local researcher , it dealt with ethnography and local history, especially of the Sami indigenous population of the Kola peninsula .

Between 1927 and 1935 he worked for the Murmansk Department of the Committee of the North . The task of these committees, founded in the entire circum-arctic area of ​​the Soviet Union , was to solve political, economic and cultural problems of the indigenous peoples and their sovietization.

In the late 1930s, Alymov fell victim to the Stalin terror . He was arrested in Murmansk on February 27, 1938, as the alleged leader of an armed Sami conspiracy against Soviet power. On the basis of a confession obtained through torture , Alymov was sentenced to death as a counterrevolutionary and executed on October 22, 1938 in the forest of Levaschowski near what was then Leningrad . Fifteen other accused suffered the same fate, most of whom were seeds from Loosero .

Create

Although Alymov did not conduct academic research, but must be viewed as a local researcher ( Russian краевед ), he was one of the most important representatives of Sami studies in the early Soviet Union . He published a variety of works on Sami folklore and history in newspapers and magazines. In addition, he was actively involved in the establishment of written language and popular education for the kola seeds in the Soviet Union. Alymow, the regular due to its field research itself Kildinsamisch spoke, adviser and close associate of Aleksander Endjukowski and Zahari Tschernjakow and also corresponded with foreign researchers, z. B. with the professor for Finno-Ugric Studies in Uppsala Karl Bernhard Wiklund .

Together with other members of the Society for the Study of the Murmansk Region ( Russian Общество по изучению Мурманского края ), Alymov was actively involved in founding the Murmansk Museum of Local History in 1926. From 1935 he was director of the museum.

Fonts (selection)

• 1930 "Roschdaemost i smertnost loparei kolskowo poluostrowa" (Birth and death rates among the lobes of the Kola Peninsula), in: Kolski sbornik. Leningrad Electronic Resource
• 1930 Lopari (The Rag). Moscow Electronic Resource

Awards

In 1927 Alymov was awarded the small silver medal of honor named after Semyonov by the Russian Geographical Society .

literature

• "Alymov", in: Practical dictionary of Siberia and the North , ed. v. Golubchikowa, VD, Chwtissiaschwili, ZI & Akbaljan, ER Moscow, 2005. p. 30
• Leif Rantala, "Saami studies: Russian / Soviet", in: The Saami: a cultural encyclopaedia , Helsinki, 2005, pp. 365-370. Electronic resource .
• WK Alymow - kraewed Murmana (= Nauka i bisnes na Murmane 41), ed. v. IB Zirkunow & WW Sorokascherdew. Murmansk, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. "Alymovs brev till prof. Wiklund", in: Document om de ryska samerna och Kolahalvön , ed. v. Leif Rantala. Rovaniemi, 2006. pp. 19–21 (in Swedish)
2. ↑ cf. History of the Murmansk Local History Museum ( Memento from September 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (in Russian)
3. ↑ Golubchikova et al. a. (see literature), p. 30
4. ↑ cf. also historical medals of the Russian Geographical Society (in English)