Seburova Yevgenia Illarionova

1933

a performer of Khanty folklore

Yevgenia Illarionovna was born in 1933 in the Verkhnie Tugiyany settlement, Beloyarsky District, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous-Okrug – Yugra, Tyumen Oblast, in a large family of a fisherman and a hunter. Yevgenia Illarionovna graduated from the 4th grade in the Polnovat school. In the mid-1950s, according to the training program for personnel from the local population, Yevgenia Illarionovna was sent to sales courses in Khanty-Mansiysk. She had been worked in a shop in the village of Tugiyany until her retirement. Yevgenia Illarionovna early lost her husband, and had to raise six children alone. Since childhood, Yevgenia Illarionovna participated in the rituals held in the village.