Moldanova Anastasia Mikhaylovna

14.02 1930

a bearer and performer of Khanty folklore

Anastasia Mikhaylovna was born in a camp near the Aj Vosh Yugan River. Her father was born in Vosh-Yugan settlement. All his life her father worked in the reindeer herding brigade. After birth of Anastasia Mikhaylovna, her parents moved to Surgut District. They lived near the village Russkinskaya. Anastasia Mikhaylovna graduated from two classes of a school of the Russkinskaya settlement. Then the war broke out, and her parents took her home. Anastasia Mikhaylovna started to work since she was a teenager. In the summer, she worked in a fishing brigade: she fished and salted fish in barrels. In winter, Anastasia Mikhaylovna carried loads on reindeer to Surgut. Then she worked in the village Russkinskaya at the sawmill. Anastasia Mikhaylovna married Pavel Molchanov, and moved with him to work in the reindeer breeding brigade. She gave birth two daughters. Currently, Anastasia Mikhaylovna lives in the village of Kazym with his daughter Yevgenia.