Ethnocultural center of NAO looking for descendants of Nenets storytellers

The Ethno-Cultural Center of the NAO asks for help and dissemination of information: in December of this year it is planned to present a reprint edition of 1936 “Nenets Tales” by Vyacheslav Tonkov. The book includes 27 epic works recorded by ten performers. Dear guests of the event would be relatives of storytellers and singers whose epic works are published in this book.

The publication lists the narrators:

Poor Ivan Fedorovich Taibarey, was born in 1905 in Bolshezemelskaya tundra. Studied in Pustozersk. He was chairman of the Bolshezemel tundra council, later chairman of the Bolshezemel district executive committee. Participated in the organization of the Nenets reindeer farm. Worked as an instructor of the district committee;

good old lady Maria Ledkova, a poor girl from the Bolshezemelskaya tundra, has kept in memory a large number of fairy tales, spoke well Russian, but is illiterate;

Ulyana Ledkova is 24 years old, the tradition of memorizing and telling fairy tales inherited from her mother, a lover of folklore. She studied at the Institute of the Peoples of the North and in the pedagogical technical school, in her native tundra she works on educational training;

Semyon Prokopyevich Nagotysy (orthography of the reprint edition) is a member of the Naryan-Shadow collective farm of the Little Earth tundra. He is 27 years old, literate, comes from the poor;

Wahlei is 63, illiterate. Lives on the New Earth, the main occupation is St. John's wort fishing;

Fekla Avdeeva (Ardeeva): she is 53 years old, ethnically Nenk, illiterate, understands the Russian language very poorly, constantly lives on the island of Kolguev;

Paraskeva Taleeva - a member of the collective farm "Naryan-Ty" Bolshezemelskaya tundra, comes from the poor, speaks Russian poorly;

Alexei Vucheysky from Pustozero, at the time of recording lived in Labytnangi (Yamal), but perhaps his relatives remained in the district;

another narrator is Stepan Konstantinovich Vilka, brother of Tyko Vilka.

If in the descriptions of the storytellers, readers recognized a relative or fellow villager and can tell something about them, you can call the Ethnocultural Center at 2-16-95 (Toropova Larisa Nikolaevna).