Simchenko, Yuri Borisovich

In 1959 he graduated from the Moscow Historical and Archival Institute , after which until 1961 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Then he entered the Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS ), where he worked until the end of his life.

Yuri Borisovich spent more than ten years on expeditions to the Far North of Russia. In the years 1964-1965, during an expedition on dogs, he drove from Chukotka to the Kola Peninsula .

Expeditions to the Taimyr Peninsula occupied a special place in his scientific life. From 1961 to 1977, he was there almost every year, studying the ethnic culture of the North Samoyed peoples - the Nenets, Ents, but to a greater extent Nganasan as descendants of the indigenous population of Taimyr. ^[2]

In the last years of his life, he worked as the chief researcher , head of the Coordination and Methodological Center "Peoples and Cultures" of the IEA RAS, was the editor-in-chief of the Russian ethnographer almanac.

He initiated the preparation of a series of ethnographic works, called "Peoples and Cultures."

Spouse - anthropologist, ethnographer G. M. Afanasyev (1951-2000).

The scientific works of Yu. B. Simchenko are devoted to ethnogenesis, marriage systems, and the terminology of kinship between the peoples of the Ural language family, the ethnic history of the Nganasans, Dolgans, Yukagirs, their material and spiritual culture, the problems of the economic cycle, the social structure of the peoples of Siberia and the North, their religious ideas and rites , folklore, as well as the modern ethnic, socio-economic and cultural development of the northern peoples.

Monographs

• "The main features of wild deer hunters of Northern Eurasia." M., 1964;
• "Tamga of the peoples of Siberia of the XVII century." M., Science, 1965;
• "The culture of deer hunters of Northern Eurasia." M., Science, 1976. 312 p .;
• "Traditional Nganasan Beliefs." M., 1987;
• “Nganasans. Life supporting system". M., 1992 and others.

Articles

• Vasiliev V.I., Simchenko Yu. B. Boris Osipovich Dolgikh // Soviet Ethnography . - 1964. - N 6. - S. 151-153
• Simchenko Yu. B. - Features of the social organization of the paleo-Asians of the extreme North-East of Siberia (Koryaks, Chukchi, Itelmens, Eskimos) // Social system among the peoples of the North of Siberia. XVII - beginning of XX century M .: Nauka, 1970.S. 313-331.
• Simchenko Yu. B. - Terminology of kinship between the Nenets, Ents, Nganasans and Yukagirs // Social Organization and Culture of the North. M .: Nauka, 1974. S. 270-291.
• Simchenko Yu. B. - Some questions of the ancient stages of the ethnic history of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Eurasia // Ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the peoples of the North. M .: Nauka, 1975. S. 148-185
• Simchenko Yu. B., I. S. Gurvich - Ethnogenesis of the Yukagirs // Ethnogenesis of the peoples of the North. M .: Nauka, 1980.S. 41-151.
• Afanasyeva G. M., Simchenko Yu. B. On the marriage systems of the autochthonous peoples of North Asia // Soviet Ethnography . 1981. No. 4.
• Simchenko Yu. B. Ordinary shamanistic life. Russian Ethnographer, vol. 7, 1993.
• Simchenko Yu. B., Lebedev V.V. - Mixed marriages in the southern and eastern Chukchi // Ethnocultural processes among the peoples of Siberia and the North. - M., 1994. - S. 158-175;
• Simchenko Yu. B. Peoples of the North of Russia. Problems. Forecasts. Recommendations // Research on applied and urgent ethnology. - M.: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, 1998. - Issue. 12. - p.32.

Works of art:

• Born in the Snow
• "People of high latitudes",
• "Winter route in Gydan",
• "Achayvayamskaya spring",
• "Winter road",
• "Ordinary shamanistic life",
• "Taiga Selkup."
• Story Simchenko Yu. B. - “ Berdanka Nyalymtysi ” from the magazine “Arctic Circle” \\ Ed. Collegium: N. Ya. Bolotgikov (comp.) and others. - Moscow: Thought, 1978 - p. 262, ill

In 2011, a collection of ethnographic works dedicated to Yu. B. Simchenko was published: “Not for the sake of curiosity, but knowledge for ...”. On the 75th anniversary of Yuri Borisovich Simchenko / N. A. Dubov, Yu. N. Kvashnin (Ed.). M., Old Garden, 2011.

• P. 283-313: Vorobyov D.V. - “Dikovka” in Chirinda: wild reindeer hunting in the 21st century (“Siberian Zaimka” magazine)

• Photo Archive of Yu. B. Simchenko. Northern expedition. Chukotka Detachment , ELECTRONIC PHOTOARCHIVE IEA RAS, 2014
• Yuri Kvashnin - In memory of the teacher , INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH SB RAS, 2014