Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz

Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz (born April 27 [April 15, Old Style], 1865, Ovruch, Russia—died May 10, 1936, on the way to Rostov-na-Donu) was a Russian anthropologist whose study of the Chukchi people of northeastern Siberia ranks among the classic works of ethnography. Arrested in 1886 for activities with the revolutionary Narodnaya Volya (“People’s Will”) political party, Bogoraz was exiled to the Yakutia region of northeastern Siberia, where he studied the ethnography and linguistics of the area...