About Yury Vello
Lived 1948 – 2013 (aged 65). Yury Vello was a Russian poet, writer, herder and environmentalist.
Yurii Kilevich Aivaseda (1948 - Sept. 2013), also known by the pseudonym Yuri Vella, was a writer, poet, environmentalist and social activist of the Forest Nenets people from Western Siberia.
Biography Yuri Vella was born in the Varyogan village in Siberia in 1948. In the 1990s, he moved with his family from the Varyogan village to the tundra of the Agan River to revive the traditional Nenets way of life and become a reindeer herder.
In 1996, he created a small Taiga school to teach the traditional reindeer herding skills to Nenets children. The school was closed in 2009, when the attending children grew older and left for other education.
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Who was Yury Vello?
Nenets and Khanty poet (1948–2013)
When was Yury Vello born?
Yury Vello was born on 12 March 1948 in Varyogan.
When did Yury Vello die?
Yury Vello died on 12 September 2013.
What was Yury Vello's occupation?
Yury Vello was a poet, writer, herder and environmentalist.
What nationality was Yury Vello?
Yury Vello was Russian.
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