Yuvan Shestalov

Juwan Schestalow Nikolaevich (Russian Юван Николаевич Шесталов; born June 22, 1937 in Kamratka, Rajon Berjosowo; † 5 November 2011) was a mansischer writer and the most famous representative of the jobs created in the wake of Soviet nationality policy national literature of his ethnicity.

Work

His work is mostly done in Russian.

In his Soviet creative period he distinguished himself by extensive loyalty to the ruling ideology that saw the indigenous peoples of the Russian North on the way from the Stone Age to the communist modernity. One of his works bears the significant title The step over a millennium. A prominent early in his works theme is the role of oil production in its Western Siberian homeland. While initially outweighs the praise of the related progress, indicate in later works concerns about the environmental consequences and the impact on the lifestyle of its small Siberian ethnicity on.

With the arrival of perestroika Schestalow open his worries and his doubts began to express the prevailing development model. Together with the niwchischen writer Vladimir Sangi and numerous other indigenous writers, he was one of the signatories of a letter to Soviet President Gorbachev, in the far-reaching measures to protect the small peoples of the North were called for.

In the post- Soviet period, it dealt mainly with the traditions of his people, especially shamanism. He published a magazine called Sterch and defended the thesis that mansische language descended from the Sumerian. The ethnologist Boris Schischlo called his conversion, not without cynicism a "conversion from communism to Shamanism ".

In the political organizations of the indigenous peoples of Russia, in particular RAIPON, he was not very present. Yet his death in 2011 was the occasion for obituaries in November.

Footnotes

• Author
• Literature ( Russian)
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Khanty -Mansi / Ugra
• Born in 1937
• Died in 2011
• Man