Nikolai Matorin Russian Scientist
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| First Name |
Nikolai
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| Last Name |
Matorin
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1897
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| Died |
1936
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| Nationality |
Russian
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Nikolay Mikhaylovich Matorin (1898–1936) was a Russian ethnographer and folklorist. He lectured at the Geographic Institute in Leningrad from 1924, becoming an associate professor in the Ethnographic Department there in 1928 and professor in 1930. He specialised in religious studies and by 1930 he was appointed deputy chairman of the Committee for the Study of Ethnic Composition of USSR. After three years as director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (MAE) he became director of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography when MAE was merged with the Institute for the Study of the Narodnosti of the USSR in 1933. While director of the MAE, he was among the founders of the Museum of the History of Religion.
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