![]() ![]() However, given that he had no money, he had to take on odd jobs to finance his journey. He decided that he needed to move to Leningrad if he was to complete his studies. ![]() But never got an admission letter given that he was deemed too young. Ryktheu graduated from a seven-year school in his hometown of Uelen and wanted to go to college at the Institute of the Peoples of the North. Himself a member of the Chukchi, he became a unique voice for the almost disappearing community that lives in one of the most inhospitable yet majestic environments on the planet. During the 1950s, Yuri became one of the most popular literary talents and the voice of the Chukchi people, a small national minority that needed a voice. His bestselling novel “A Dream in Polar Fog” won the Notable Book Pacific Rim Prize in 2006. He had a very active life as he hunted in Arctic waters, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, sailed the Bering Sea, and wrote more than a dozen collections of stories and novels. He was born in Uelen in the Siberian region of Chukotka. Yuri Ryktheu was a Russian author best known for the “Seedbank” series of novels. ![]()
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