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2013.
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Scholars of the Tyumen region systematically refer to the scientific heritage of unique scholar-Turcologist Nickolay Fyodorovich Katanov. After his successful graduation from oriental department of Saint Petersburg University in 1889, N. F. Katanov was sent to a long field trip by the Imperial Russian Geographic Society and Petersburg Academy of Science ' to Siberia, Northern Mongolia, Dzungaria and Chinese Turkestan. Here n he studied customs, household activities, language and folklore of the local Turkic peoples besides collecting, processing and preparing huge material for publication. Outstanding orientalist N. F. Katanov enriched indigenous Turcology with extraordinary scientific works concerning the Siberian Tatars. Katanov carried out labour-intensive work in defining and systematizing all proper names that led to the release of two-volume alphabetical index of names which appear in Folk literature samples of the Turkic tribes of V. V.
Radloff. The lion's share of these materials is data on onomastics of the Siberian Tatars.
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