1. Yuri Rytkheu is considered to be the father of Chukchi literature.
22 Facts About Yuri Rytkheu
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Yuri Rytkheu was born 18 March 1930 to a family of trappers and hunters.
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Yuri Rytkheu graduated from the Soviet 7-year school in Uelen.
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Yuri Rytkheu wanted to continue his education at the Institute of the Peoples of the North, but was not selected to study there, because of his young age.
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Yuri Rytkheu moved to Anadyr and enrolled in a vocational school.
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Yuri Rytkheu's works were introduced to readers in France, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Japan, and other countries.
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Yuri Rytkheu's works have been translated into numerous languages, including several national languages of the former USSR.
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Yuri Rytkheu travelled extensively around the world on creative trips and with cultural and goodwill visits.
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Yuri Rytkheu died in Saint Petersburg on 14 May 2008, after a long battle with myeloma.
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Yuri Rytkheu is buried in Komorovskoe Cemetery near the grave of his wife.
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All of Yuri Rytkheu's works are related in some way to the lives of the Chukchi:.
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Yuri Rytkheu is alone, until one day she spots the giant whale, Reu, swimming in the ocean.
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Yuri Rytkheu feels an instinctual pull towards him, and begins to awaken to the world around her and, for the first time, feel herself to be separate from it.
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Yuri Rytkheu argues it is better to do as she and Reu did, and exercise reason to understand mystery.
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Yuri Rytkheu begins even to have thoughts of killing Nau.
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Yuri Rytkheu takes a wife, seeking happiness and the Great Love of which Nau speaks in the creation of new life.
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Yuri Rytkheu goes out walking, following his instincts, and stumbles upon the rekken, a tiny people, each no bigger than the size of his pinkie.
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Yuri Rytkheu tries to free his ship from the ice field trapping them by setting dynamite to it, and loses most of his fingers in the process.
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Yuri Rytkheu comes to know another white man, Mr Carpenter, who lives in the Aivanalin settlement.
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Yuri Rytkheu finds a beached whale carcass, which is a boon for the village.
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Yuri Rytkheu tells Il'motch not to tell anyone, and warns the people of Enmyn about how poorly the English and French conflicts over the New World have gone for the native people.
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Yuri Rytkheu is convinced that John is being kept in Enmyn against his will, and insults Pyl'mau and their children.