KOMISSAROV Guriy Ivanovich

KOMISSAROV Guriy Ivanovich (21.9.1883– 25.2.1969), educator, local historian, founder of the Chuvash folklore and literary studies, public figure. Candidate of Theology (1913). He studied the history and ethnography of the Chuvash people, collected historical, ethnographic, and folklore materials about the Chuvash people of the Southern Urals, some of which are stored in the National Museum of Bashkortostan. Author of about 400 research works, including the textbook “History of Chuvash Folklore and Literary Studies” (1926–1927).

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