Viktor BUTANAYEV

Category: Red Apple Science Award

Prof. Dr. Viktor BUTANAYEV | Khakas State University, Khakas

Professor Butanayev Viktor Yakovlevich was born in 12th March 1946 Kamchatka in the family of military serviceman. His father Butanaev Yakov Nikolaevich, former pilot and participant of WWII. In 1991-1994 he works as an ethnographer in folklore sector of Institute of Philology, Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Science (Novosibirsk city) and in 1993-1996 head of ethnographic laboratory at N.F.Katanov. Since 1994 works at Hakas State university named after N.F.Katanov. In 1994 ethnographic expedition was held to North-West of Mongolia. During this expedition ethno-cultural ties between Sayan-Altai turks and western monogls-oirats; Tuvinians of Bayan-Ulgeisk region living close to the borders of China were examined, and travel to the lake of Kyrgyz-Nur that ancestral home of hakas-kyrgyz was made. He is the holder of several awards such as “Turksoy” (2002), “Dank” (2002), “Honored Science Worker of the Kyrgyz Republic” and diploma by the Association of Book Publishers of Russia.