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Alexander Maksimovich Kotusov (russian: Александр Максимович Котусов; 1955-2019) was a Ket singer, composer and writer of songs in the Ket language. He was also a hunter and fisherman. His tomb is in his native Kellog, a small village by the Yeloguy River, a tributary of the Yenisei.Songs of the last Ket


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Kotusov was born in Kellog of mixed Evenk and Ket descent. His father was an Evenk hunter and who knew the Ket language well and his mother was a Ket. His mother inspired in him the love of poetry and songs. His sister Marya Irikova (born 1953) is also a native speaker of the Ket languag ...
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Kellog
Kellog (russian: Келлог) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.Law #10-4765 It is located by the Yeloguy River.Елогуй, Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M, 1969-1978. Population Kellog is one of the three localities in which Ket people, a little-known ethnic group whose language is thought by some linguists to be related to the Na-Dene languages of Native Americans, live.Vajda, p. xi It is also the only location in Russia where the Ket language is taught in schools. As of the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition in Kellog was as follows: *Ket people: 216 (70,6 %) *Russians: 71 (23,2 %) *Others: 19 (6,2 %) The tomb of Alexander Kotusov Alexander Maksimovich Kotusov (russian: Александр Максимович Котусов; 1955-2019) was a Ket singer, composer and writer of songs in the Ket language. He was also a hunter and fisherman. His tomb is in his native ...
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