Katanov Nikolai Fyodorovich

(1862-1922)
Since 1893. - Professor of Turco-Tatar literature, Kazan University, a researcher of Persian, Buryat, Bashkir, Mongolian, Kalmyk and Khakas languages.
N.F. Katanov was a member of two foreign companies: Societe des sciences et lettres in g. Leuven, in Belgium, and Ungarische ethnographische Gesellschaft, in g. Budapest, Hungary, also a corresponding member of the Finno-Ugric Society in g. Helsingfors, . active member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, . Imperial Russian Archaeological Society, . Imperial Society of Naturalists, . Anthropology and Ethnography in Moscow, . Turkestan circle amateur archeology in g,
. Tashkent, was chairman and a correspondent. member of the Society of archeology, history and ethnography in Kazan, and a member of the statistical committee of the Kazan and the Semipalatinsk

. Of great interest is his collection - ethnographic (Chuvash, . Mari, . Udmurt), . archaeological, . numismatic, . religious supplies, . he had collected during expeditions and donated to city and university museums of the city of Kazan,
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