<div dir="ltr"><div>Udmurt folklorist, professor Tatiana Vladykina (<span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">8.09.1953-4.05.2024</span>) has died. Tatiana Vladykina was one of the most important and well-known folklorists of Russia and Finno-Ugric world.</div><div><br></div><div> Tatiana Vladykina was Doctor of Philology,
Professor of Folkloristics, laureate of the State award of the Udmurt Republic
in the field of literature and art, foreign honorary member of the Finno-Ugric
Society (Finland), laureate of the "Soul of Udmurtia” award of the Udmurt
Republic in the field of traditional culture and leading researcher of the Department of Philological Research of the Udmurt Institute of History, Language
and Literature. </div><div><br></div><div>The main field of her scientific
activity was the traditional culture of the Udmurts, genres and figurative system
of Udmurt folklore. She graduated from the Udmurt State University in 1975,
and in 1975–1978 she was a doctoral student at the University of Tartu. She collected, studied and published Udmurt folklore since 1972. Since
1978 she organized expeditions to collect folklore and ethnographic
materials. She supervised the compilation and publication of the Udmurt Folklore collection, a series of books “Cultural Monuments. Folklore Heritage” and “Udmurt Ritual Alphabet”. </div><div><br></div><div>Tatiana Vladykina is the author of more than 300
publications (monographs, scientific articles, popular scientific and popular
publications, educational and teaching aids), scientific editor of dozens of
books on the problems of Udmurt folklore research in the context of traditional
cultures of the Ural–Volga region peoples and kindred Finno-Ugric peoples. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Personally I remember her beginning from the year 1997, when she, among other top scholars, read me individual lectures of Udmurt folklore. </div><div> </div><div>This is an enormous loss for the studies of Finno-Ugric folkloristics.</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:15px">ORCID-tunniste: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8694-9094" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8694-9094</a></span><br></div><div><br></div><a href="https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/author/ejsalminen/" target="_blank">https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/author/ejsalminen/</a><br><a href="https://vapaavuoro.uusisuomi.fi/author/ejsalminen/" target="_blank">https://vapaavuoro.uusisuomi.fi/author/ejsa</a><a href="https://vapaavuoro.uusisuomi.fi/author/ejsalminen/" target="_blank">lminen/</a></div></div></div>