Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev (russian: Иван Яковлевич Яковлев) (, a village of Koshki-Novotimbaeyvo, today's

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- October 23, 1930,

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) was a Chuvash enlightener, educator, and writer. In 1875, Ivan Yakovlev was graduated from the

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. While he was still a gymnasium student, he invested his own capital and private donations into the establishment of

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Chuvash School in 1868. Thanks to the efforts of

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(

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's father), this school would be funded by the government starting 1871. In 1877, the school was transformed into Simbirsk Central Chuvash School. After his graduation from the university, Ivan Yakovlev worked as an inspector of Chuvash schools in the Kazan School District (until 1903) and headed the Chuvash School for Teachers (until October 1919). Ivan Yakovlev contributed to the establishing of Chuvash and other national schools in the

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. He was the one to create special instruction methods based on

Konstantin Ushinsky Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky (russian: Константи́н Дми́триевич Уши́нский; uk, Костянти́н Дмитро́вич Уши́нський, translit=Kostiantyn Dmytrovych Ushynskyi) ( – ) was a Russian t ...

’s pedagogical legacy. In the early 1870s, Ivan Yakovlev put together a new

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, wrote several primers and textbooks based on the Russian alphabet. He is also known for having translated some of the Russian writers into the

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(

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

Ivan Krylov Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (russian: Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в; 13 February 1769 – 21 November 1844) is Russia's best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors. Formerly a dramatist and journali ...

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

Nikolai Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov ( rus, Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈkrasəf, a=Ru-Nikolay_Alexeyevich_Nekrasov.ogg, – ) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publi ...

and others). The Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute bears Ivan Yakovlev’s name. There is also a monument and a museum of Ivan Yakovlev in

Cheboksary Cheboksary (; russian: Чебокса́ры, r=Cheboksáry, p=tɕɪbɐˈksarɨ; cv, Шупашкар, ''Şupaşkar'') is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia and a port on the Volga River. Geography The city is located in the Volga Upland reg ...

. Alikovo middle school bears Ivan Yakovlev’s name.

Literature

* ''Дело его жизни. Сборник научных статей.'' Издатель — фонд им. Яковлева. Редактор Кириллов И. П. Cheboksary, 2008. * ''Итоги юбилейной научной сессии, посвященной столетию со дня рождения И. Я. Яковлева'', «Записки Чувашского н.-и. института языка, литературы и истории», 1949. в. 3; * Краснов Н. Г. ''Иван Яковлевич Яковлев. Жизнь. Деятельность. Педагогические идеи. Очерки''. Cheboksary, 1976. * ''Этнопедагогический манифест И. Я. Яковлева.'' Cheboksary, 2003. * Волков Г. Н. ''Жизнь, смерть и бессмертие патриарха.'' Cheboksary, 2004. * Симбирская чувашская школа. Квартира И. Я. Яковлева. Путеводитель. — Ul'yanovsk: Издательство «Корпорация технологий продвижения», 2003. — 24 с.

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Biography

* ttp://www.biblia.ru/translation/show/?9&start=0 Russia Bible society {{DEFAULTSORT:Yakovlev, Ivan 1848 births 1930 deaths people from Tetyushsky District People from Buinsky Uyezd Eastern Orthodox missionaries Chuvash writers Russian educators Russian educational theorists Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery

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