Galina E. Soldatova

Candidate of Art Studies Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leading Researcher

Research Interests

Ethnomusicology, folklore studies, Ob-Ugrians, folk musical instruments, peoples of Siberia and the Far East.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1421-6075

WoS ResearcherID: K-1125-2017

RSCI Science Index (SPIN-code: 6186-9864)

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Brief scientific biography

Shaping of Galina E. Soldatova’s scientific interests and the beginning of her research activities started with training at the theoretical and compositional faculty of the M. I. Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory, where she specialized in music theory (class of candidate of art history, associate professor Yu. I. Sheikin). While studying at the conservatory, she combined her studies with the work of a laboratory assistant at the Center for Musical and Ethnographic Research of North Asia, went on an expedition to Altai, to the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, performed musical decoding and systematization of the collected materials. In 1991 she graduated from the Conservatory, defending her thesis «Ritual Singing and Lyric Narrative in Mansi Musical Folklore». In 1995 she graduated from postgraduate studies with a degree in ethnomusicology. In 2001 she defended her candidate’s thesis «Ritual music of the Mansi: context, functioning, structure» in the specialty 17.00.02 — Musical art. Since 2000 Soldatova has been working in the Department of Folklore of the peoples of Siberia at the Institute of Philology of the SB RAS, since 2008 — as a leading researcher. She conducts the author’s and editorial work in musicological sections (articles, note transcriptions, scientific reference apparatus, audio application) of the academic series «Monuments of folklore of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East». Since 2015 she is the Executive Secretary of this series of volumes. Galina E. Soldatova is the participant and organizer of complex and musical-ethnographic expeditions to the places where peoples of Siberia and the Far East (Khanty, Mansi, Kets, Evenki, Altaians, Khakasses, Tuvans, Koryaks, Evens) have lived historically.

Selected publications

Mansi Mythology. I. N. Gemuev, A. V. Baulo, A. A. Lyitsidarskaya, A. M. Sagalaev, Z. P. Sokolova, G. E. Soldatova. Eds. V. Napolskikh, A.-L. Siikala, M. Hoppál. Bdp.: Akadémiai Kiadó; Hels.: Finnish Literature Society, 2008. 200 p. (Encyclopaedia of Uralic Mythologies, vol. 3).

Synskie khanty [Syn’ya Khanty]. G. A. Aksyanova, A. V. Baulo, E. V. Perevalova, E. Ruttkai-Miklian, Z. P. Sokolova, G. E. Soldatova, N. M. Taligina, E. I. Tylikova, N. V. Fedorova. Novosibirsk. Izdatel’stvo Instituta arkheologii i etnografii SO RAN [Publishing house of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS], 2005. 352 p. (In Russ.).

Mifologiya mansi [Mansi mythology] . I. N. Gemuev, A. V. Baulo, A. A. Lyutsidarskaya, A. M. Sagalaev, Z. P. Sokolova, G. E. Soldatova. Novosibirsk. Izdatel’stvo Instituta arkheologii i etnografii SO RAN [Publishing house of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS], 2001. 196 p. (Entsiklopediya ural’skikh mifologiy [Encyclopedia of Uralic mythologies], vol. 2). (In Russ.).

Soldatova G. E. Personal’nye miforitual’nye naigryshi v kul’ture obskikh ugrov [Personal Mythic-Ritual Tunes in the Culture of the Ob-Ugrians]. Traditsionnaya kul’tura [Traditional Culture]. 2021. Vol. 22. No. 1. Pp. 27–38. (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.26158/TK.2021.22.1.002

Soldatova G. E. Muzyka v severo-khantyyskikh skazkakh [Music in Northern Khanty folktales]. Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal [Siberian Journal of Philology]. 2020, no. 4, p. 41–62. (In Russ.). DOI 10.17223/18137083/73/3

Soldatova G. E. Opyt analiza zvukovysotnoy struktury naigryshey na mansiyskoy tsitre [The Experience of analyzing of the pitch organization of Mansi zither tunes]. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul’turologiya i iskusstvovedeniye [Tomsk State University Journal of Cultural Studies and Art History]. 2020. No. 39. Pp. 214–225. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.17223/2220836/39/20

Soldatova G. E. Fakul’tativnye fonoinstrumenty obskikh ugrov [Facultative phono-instruments of the Ob Ugrian]. Traditsionnaya kul’tura [Traditional Culture]. 2019. Vol. 20. No. 4. Pp. 44–56. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.26158/TK.2019.20.4.004

Soldatova G. E. Intonatsionnye fenomeny medvezh’ego prazdnika mansi [Intonational phenomena of the Bear-Feast of Mansi]. Yazyki i fol’klor korennykh narodov Sibiri [Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia]. 2018. No. 2 (iss. 36). Pp. 118–127. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.25205/2312-6337-2018-2-118-127