Lozyamova Tatyana Ivanovna

1956

performer of Khanty folklore

Tatyana Ivanovna was born in the village of Ustryom in Beryozovsky District. She graduated from the school in the village of Tegi and the Salekhard Cultural and Educational College. She married Lozyamov Vladimir Mikhailovich and lived with husband's parents for the rest of their life. They were both excellent performers of folklore, so Tatyana Ivanovna learned a lot of fairy tales from them. Her parents also sang very well, so she sings personal songs, and bear songs. She lives in a forest in twenty-five kilometers from the village of Kyshik in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra of Tyumen Oblast with her reindeer. She writes the songs, knows a lot of fairy tales, legends, historical legends. She has a peculiar way of performing of songs.