KUZEBAI GERD AND YAKOV ILIN: LIFE LINES

This paper examines the creative and life biography of outstanding figures of Udmurt culture: Kusebai Gerd and Yakov Ilyin. In different years fate brought them together and separated them on different sides: joint studies at the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Cultures of the Peoples of the East, joint folklore expeditions, etc. The significance and importance of their activities in the field of Udmurtology is discussed. The article most fully outlines the portrait of Yakov Ilyin, whose work has not yet been appreciated at face value and is of great scientific interest.