About Mariya Barmich
Lived 1934 – 2023 (aged 89). Mariya Barmich was a Russian linguist, pedagogue and textbook writer.
Maria Yakovlevna Barmich (; 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.
On 9 December 2016, in Naryan-Mar, she was a judge for the competition Vadava Letrakhava (Let's save our Native language).
Barmich died from a stroke on 27 November 2023, at the age of 89.
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Soviet and Russian teacher, Nenets linguist, professor (1934—2023)
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Mariya Barmich was born on 26 April 1934 in Kanino-Timansky District.
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Mariya Barmich died on 27 November 2023 in Saint Petersburg.
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Mariya Barmich was a linguist, pedagogue and textbook writer.
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Mariya Barmich was Russian.
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