Nikolai Nikolaevich Kurilov (, ; born June 11, 1949) —
Yukaghir Russian artist, writer, and ethnographer. Wrote also under the name Okat Bei (''Окат Бэй''). Brother of the writer
Uluro Ado (Gavril Kurilov) and the artist and writer Semyon Kurilov.
Born in
Andryushkino
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,
Nizhnekolymsky district
Nizhnekolymsky District (russian: Нижнеколы́мский улу́с; sah, Аллараа Халыма улууһа, ''Allaraa Khalyma uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III distric ...
,
Yakut ASSR
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Якутская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Yakutskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika''; sah, С ...
. Studied in the Krasnoyarsk art college. After the studies returned to his home region and worked as a teacher of
engineering drawing
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and
esthetics
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...
, and as a designer in
Chersky, and as a photo reporter in the newspaper ''Kolymskaya pravda''.
Since 1976, participated in the regional and national exhibitions, wrote poetry and prose, and lectured at seminars for beginner writers. A member of the
Artists's Union of the USSR, and of the
Union of Soviet Writers since 1988.
Since 1994 — staff researcher of the Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North or the
Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1994, traveled in the United States populated by
Indigenous peoples, and studied their art. Since 1997 — worked as an editor and an announcer of the Gevan radio station, which broadcasts in the languages of
indigenous peoples of Northern Russia.
Writes in
Yukaghir,
Sakha
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...
and
Russian in different genres — stories about the life of Northern peoples,
children's literature, poetry, textbooks, and
science fiction. Together with his brother Gavril wrote the first Yukaghir children
alphabet book.
Married to the artist Ulyana Prokopyevna.
Awards
* 1981: "Best debut", presented by the Yakut regional committee of the
Komsomol
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...
Bibliography
* Тимофеева, Влада Владиславовна. Николай Курилов = Микалай Курилэу / З.И. Иванова-Унарова. — Якутск: Бичик, 2012. — 156 с. — .
Звездолёт над тундрой Ольга Рычкова, Литературная Россия, 08.09.2006.
Курилов Николай Николаевич на сайте Якутского государственного литературного музея
References
External links
* (in Russian and Yukaghir, with English subtitles)
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Russian painters
Living people
1949 births