Yuri Rytkheu

Audun J. Mørch (University of Oslo)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 8 Mar 1930
Died 14 May 2008
Activity 1947-2008

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Born in Russia
Active in Russia; Russia

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The Soviet, later Russian, Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu was born on the 8th of March 1930 in the village Uelen on the Chukotka and died on the 14th of May 2008 in St Petersburg. The Chukchi is an indigenous Arctic people who inhabit the Chukotka in the far Russian Northeast. The Chukchi are said to have been the last hunters of wild reindeer in Siberia. In the 17th century they split into two groups: one took up reindeer herding, the way of life of their neighbouring tundra peoples the Lamut and the Koriaks, while the other began hunting sea mammals on the coast, thus adopting the lifestyle of the Inuit to their coastal North. The Chukchi were warlike people, known to be the only indigenous Siberians never to have been conquered by Imperial Russia.

Rytkheu was the son of a sea mammal

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Citation: Mørch, Audun J.. "Yuri Rytkheu". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 September 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15096, accessed 16 October 2024.]