Maria Barmich

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yakovlevna and the family name is Barmich.

Maria Yakovlevna Barmich
Born	(1934-04-26)26 April 1934 Zapolyarny District, Northern Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	27 November 2023(2023-11-27) (aged 89)
Alma mater	Herzen University
Occupation	Linguist
Notable work	Nenets textbooks

Maria Yakovlevna Barmich (Russian: Мари́я Я́ковлевна Ба́рмич; 26 April 1934 – 27 November 2023) was a Russian professor, researcher of the Nenets language, and the first scientist among Nenets women.

Barmich was born in the Kaninskaya tundra of the Kanino-Timan region of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk Oblast. She lived in Saint Petersburg and worked at the Institute of the Peoples of the North. She taught the Nenets language for many years and was an author of textbooks on the Nenets language, culture, and life.[1]

On 9 December 2016, in Naryan-Mar, she was a judge for the competition Vadava Letrakhava (Let's save our Native language).[2][3]

Barmich died from a stroke on 27 November 2023, at the age of 89.[4]

References

1. Сюгней О. П. Возникновение ненецко-язычной печати и её развитие в 20—21 вв. Отв. ред. Ю. В. Попков. Нарьян-Мар, 2008.
2. Афиша конкурса Вадава лэтрахава
3. Выбор НАО: Ненецкий выучить сложно, но нужно Архивная копия от 20 декабря 2016 на Wayback Machine
4. "27 ноября 2023 года после продолжительной болезни ушла из жизни Мария Яковлевна Бармич". herzen.spb.ru. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.