Professor Vladimir Bogoraz, noted ethnographer and writer under the pseudonym of Tan, died suddenly last night en route from Leningrad to Rostov-on-the-Don. He was seventy years old.
Dr. Bogoraz participated in the Northern Pacific Research Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History in 1899 and 1900, led by Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia University. He was an investigator in the languages and life of the northern peoples of what is now the Soviet Union.
In addition, he was director of the anthropological and ethnographical section of the Museum of the Academy of Science and a member of many foreign scientific societies. Dr. Bogoraz was organizer and director of the Museum of History of Religion in Leningrad.
An active revolutionist during the Czarist regime, Prof. Bogoraz spent thirteen years in prison and in exile in the most remote parts of Siberia.
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