Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh (russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Напо́льских, born 1 April 1963,
Izhevsk
Izhevsk (russian: Иже́вск, p=ɪˈʐɛfsk; udm, Ижкар, ''Ižkar'', or , ''Iž'') is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It is the 21st-largest city i ...
, USSR) is a Russian
ethnographer
Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...
,
ethnologist
Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...
,
ethnohistorian
Ethnohistory is the study of cultures and indigenous peoples customs by examining historical records as well as other sources of information on their lives and history. It is also the study of the history of various ethnic groups that may or may n ...
,
Finno-Ugrist and
linguist
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
.
Doctor of Historical Sciences (1992), Professor at
Udmurt State University
Udmurt State University (Udmurt language, Udmurtian Удмурт кун университет; russian: Удмуртский государственный университет) is a public university in the city of Izhevsk, Russia. Establishe ...
. Member of the «Societas Uralo-Altaica» since 2000. Corresponding Member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
since 2011.
Papers in English
Earth-Diver Myth (А812) in northern Eurasia and North America: twenty years laterOn the literary sources of M. G. Khudiakov’s ''Song of Udmurt Heroes''Review on: ''Eberhard Winkler'', Udmurt, München 2001 (Languages of the World. Materials 212). 85 pp.Uralic Numerals: is the evolution of numeral system reconstructable? (Reading new Václav Blažek’s book on numerals in Eurasia)
External links
The works of Vladimir Napolskih in the Internet// Udmurtology
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1963 births
Living people
People from Izhevsk
Russian ethnographers
Linguists from Russia
Historical linguists
Russian Finno-Ugrists
20th-century Russian historians
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
21st-century Russian historians