Nikolai Nikolaevich Kurilov (, ; born June 11, 1949) is a

Yukaghir The Yukaghirs, or Yukagirs ( (), ), are a Siberian ethnic group in the Russian Far East, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. Geographic distribution The Tundra Yukaghirs live in the Lower Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic; the Taiga Y ...

Russian artist, writer, and ethnographer. He also wrote under the name Okat Bei (''Окат Бэй''). Brother of the writer Uluro Ado (Gavril Kurilov) and the artist and writer Semyon Kurilov. He was born in

Andryushkino Andryushkino (; ) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited settlement and the administrative center of Rural National Yukagir Settlement of "Olerinsky Suktul" of Nizhnekolymsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from ...

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Yakut ASSR The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; ), also known as Soviet Sakha, Soviet Yakutia or the Yakut ASSR (, ''Yakutskaya ASSR''), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. History The Yakut ASSR was formed ...

. He studied in the Krasnoyarsk art college. After his studies, returned to his home region and worked as a teacher of

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and

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, and as a designer in Chersky, and as a photo reporter in the newspaper ''Kolymskaya pravda''. Since 1976, he 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

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since 1988. Since 1994 he was staff researcher of the Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North or the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

. In 1994, he traveled in the United States populated by

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, 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. He writes in

, Sakha and

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in different genres , including stories about the life of Northern peoples,

children's literature Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...

, poetry, textbooks, and

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. Together with his brother Gavril he wrote the first Yukaghir children

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. 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, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...

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

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* (in Russian and Yukaghir, with English subtitles) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurilov, Nikolai Russian painters Living people 1949 births