Veniamin Petrovich Yudin (1928–1983) was a
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
scholar of oriental studies, historian, philologist, expert on Persian and Turkic manuscripts, researcher and teacher. Yudin was born on February 1, 1928 in
Stalingrad
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stal ...
(modern
Volgograd
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stal ...
). Yudin started his scientific and pedagogical activity as
Uighurologist in 1950 after graduating
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies (russian: Московский институт востоковедения, abbreviated МИВ (''MIV'')) was a university-level educational institution that operated in Moscow, Russia, in 1920–1954. It w ...
, where he completed a postgraduate study in
Uighur philology
Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...
under a known
Turkologist
Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative conte ...
Prof. V.M. Nasilov.
In 1955 Yudin started his work at the
Kazakhstan Pedagogical Institute in a newly opened Uighur branch, where he lectured in
Uighur language
The Uyghur or Uighur language (; , , , or , , , , CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8-11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xin ...
the classes of ancient and classical Uighur literature, folklore and language. In 1960-1976 he lectured in the
Kazakhstan State University and worked in the Uighurology Department of the
Linguistics Institute of Kazakhstan SSR Academy of Sciences. Alongside the Kazakhstan artifacts, Yudin investigated from historical and philological points the richest manuscript heritage of the Uighur people. Yudin authored over 80 scientific publications in Russian, Uighur and Kazakh languages, some of them were re-published in English.
Yudin studied manuscripts unearthed in
Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
, northwest China, including "Chingiz-name" by Utemish-Khodja (16th century), "Tarih-i Shaibani" (beginning of 17th century), "Ziya' al-kulub" by Mukhalemad Avaz (beginning of 17th century).
Yudin's work "Clan and tribal composition of
Moghuls of
Moghulistan
Moghulistan (from fa, , ''Moghulestân'', mn, Моголистан), also called the Moghul Khanate or the Eastern Chagatai Khanate (), was a Mongol breakaway khanate of the Chagatai Khanate and a historical geographic area north of the Teng ...
and
Moghulia and their ethnic connections with Kazakh and other neighboring peoples" (''News of Kazakhstan SSR Academy of Sciences, Social sciences, 1965, No. 3'') broke ground in "nonconventional" illumination of the
Moghulia state as distinct from
Moghulistan
Moghulistan (from fa, , ''Moghulestân'', mn, Моголистан), also called the Moghul Khanate or the Eastern Chagatai Khanate (), was a Mongol breakaway khanate of the Chagatai Khanate and a historical geographic area north of the Teng ...
in ethnic, territorial and chronological relations, state structure, and about
Moghulian ethnic composition which contributed to the
Kazakh,
Uighur and
Kirgiz peoples.
Much of Yudin's research
was not published during his lifetime, including his translations of sources, research on history of the
Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs; Kazakh: , , , , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian; russian: казахи) are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to northern parts of Central Asia, chiefly Kazakhstan, but also parts o ...
and
Uighurs
The Uyghurs; ; ; ; zh, s=, t=, p=Wéiwú'ěr, IPA: ( ), alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia. The Uyghu ...
and other subjects.
References and sources
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yudin, Benjamin P
Turkologists
Kazakhstani philologists
1928 births
1983 deaths
People from Volgograd
20th-century philologists
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies alumni