Yury Zuev
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Yury Zuev was a Kazakh
sinologist and turkologist of Russian
origin.
Zuev was born on in the Siberia
n city of Tümen
in a white-collar
family. Zuev studied in Leningrad State University to major in the historical studies of the Eastern countries, successfully learning ancient Chinese, Middle Chinese
, and modern Chinese
languages. In 1955, Zuev received a B.A.
diploma and was sent to work in the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography
of the Kazakh SSR
Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D.
in 1967. His PhD thesis "Ancient Turkic
genealogical
legends as a source on early history of Turkic people" published a number of new discoveries about socio-political history of Turks, suggested etymology
of the name of the Ashina
tribe, traced historical past of the Turkic tribes in the Chinese genealogical legends, suggested a hypothesis about an ethnic triumvirate
of Ashina-Ashide-Basmyl
. It turned out that a main achievement in that publication became the etymology of the name of the Kagan tribe Ashina.
Zuev was a collaborator in fundamental editions of the USSR history: "Historical Atlas of the USSR peoples", "Historical atlas of the Kazakh SSR", and five-volume edition "History of the Kazakh SSR from most ancient times to the present". The mass of Yu.A.Zuev work included analysis of the Kazakhstan
and Central Asia
political history from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, history of ancient and medieval periods, ethnical composition and movement of tribes in the Western Turkic Kaganate, pre-Mongolian
period (10th-12th centuries) history. Zuev wrote about genesis, ethnic composition and political history of the Türgesh Kaganate.
After the fall of the USSR, Zuev was able to publish a number of works on ancient and medieval history of nomadic peoples of the Central Asia and Kazakhstan. These are "Sarmato-Alans of Aral (Yancai\Abzoya)" (1995), "Ancient Turkic social terminology in the Chinese texts of the 8th century" (1998), "Creation of Türgesh Kaganate: history and tradition" (1996), "Forms of the ethno-social organization of Central Asia nomadic peoples in antiquity and Middle Ages: pied horde, centuria (comparative
- typological study)" (1998), "Kypchak Urbe-khan in epo
s and history" (2001), "Manichaeism and Talas (interpretation of Ancient Turkic inscriptions)" (2002), and others.
Тhe 70-year anniversary of the scientist in 2002 coincided with publication of his lifetime work, a monograph
"Early Turks: Sketches of history and ideology", followed by "A Strongest Tribe" (2004) and "Seyanto Kaganate and Kimeks (Central Asian Turkic etnogeography in the middle of the 7th century)" (2004).
His publications contain approximately 40 major works.
Kazakhs
The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
sinologist and turkologist of Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
origin.
Zuev was born on in the Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...
n city of Tümen
Tumen
Tumen or Tümen was a part of the decimal system used by Turkic and Mongol peoples to organize their armies. Tumen is an army unit of 10,000 soldiers...
in a white-collar
White-collar worker
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family. Zuev studied in Leningrad State University to major in the historical studies of the Eastern countries, successfully learning ancient Chinese, Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese , also called Ancient Chinese by the linguist Bernhard Karlgren, refers to the Chinese language spoken during Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties...
, and modern Chinese
Modern Chinese
Modern Chinese can refer to the following:*Modern Chinese history*Any or all of the modern varieties of Chinese, most commonly**Standard Chinese or Modern Chinese, sometimes known as Mandarin, the national language of the People's Republic of China...
languages. In 1955, Zuev received a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
diploma and was sent to work in the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography
Ethnography
Ethnography is a qualitative method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group...
of the Kazakh SSR
Kazakh SSR
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Kazakh SSR for short, was one of republics that made up the Soviet Union.At in area, it was the second largest constituent republic in the USSR, after the Russian SFSR. Its capital was Alma-Ata . Today it is the independent state of...
Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in 1967. His PhD thesis "Ancient Turkic
Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are peoples residing in northern, central and western Asia, southern Siberia and northwestern China and parts of eastern Europe. They speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. They share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds...
genealogical
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
legends as a source on early history of Turkic people" published a number of new discoveries about socio-political history of Turks, suggested etymology
Etymology
Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
of the name of the Ashina
Ashina
Ashina was a tribe and the ruling dynasty of the ancient Turks who rose to prominence in the mid-6th century when their leader, Bumin Khan, revolted against the Rouran...
tribe, traced historical past of the Turkic tribes in the Chinese genealogical legends, suggested a hypothesis about an ethnic triumvirate
Triumvirate
A triumvirate is a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals, each a triumvir . The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case...
of Ashina-Ashide-Basmyl
Basmyl
The Basmyls were a 7–8th century Türkic nomadic tribe who mostly inhabited the Dzungaria region in the northwest of the modern day People's Republic of China. According to literary sources, the terms Basmyls and Basmals are readily interchangeable...
. It turned out that a main achievement in that publication became the etymology of the name of the Kagan tribe Ashina.
Zuev was a collaborator in fundamental editions of the USSR history: "Historical Atlas of the USSR peoples", "Historical atlas of the Kazakh SSR", and five-volume edition "History of the Kazakh SSR from most ancient times to the present". The mass of Yu.A.Zuev work included analysis of the Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
and Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
political history from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, history of ancient and medieval periods, ethnical composition and movement of tribes in the Western Turkic Kaganate, pre-Mongolian
Mongols
Mongols ) are a Central-East Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in the countries of Mongolia, China, and Russia. In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia...
period (10th-12th centuries) history. Zuev wrote about genesis, ethnic composition and political history of the Türgesh Kaganate.
After the fall of the USSR, Zuev was able to publish a number of works on ancient and medieval history of nomadic peoples of the Central Asia and Kazakhstan. These are "Sarmato-Alans of Aral (Yancai\Abzoya)" (1995), "Ancient Turkic social terminology in the Chinese texts of the 8th century" (1998), "Creation of Türgesh Kaganate: history and tradition" (1996), "Forms of the ethno-social organization of Central Asia nomadic peoples in antiquity and Middle Ages: pied horde, centuria (comparative
Comparative
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- typological study)" (1998), "Kypchak Urbe-khan in epo
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s and history" (2001), "Manichaeism and Talas (interpretation of Ancient Turkic inscriptions)" (2002), and others.
Тhe 70-year anniversary of the scientist in 2002 coincided with publication of his lifetime work, a monograph
Monograph
A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...
"Early Turks: Sketches of history and ideology", followed by "A Strongest Tribe" (2004) and "Seyanto Kaganate and Kimeks (Central Asian Turkic etnogeography in the middle of the 7th century)" (2004).
His publications contain approximately 40 major works.
Selected works
- Question on mutual relations of Usuns and Kanju with Huns and China in the second half of the 1st century B.C. (Campaign of Hun Shanyu Chzhichzhi to the West) // News of Kazakh Academy of Sciences, Series of History, Economy, Philosophy and Law, Issue 2 (5), Alma-Ata, 1957, p. 62-72
- Question of ancient Usuns language // Bulletin of Kazakh Academy of Sciences, No 5 (146), 1957, p. 61-74.
- The term "kyrkun" (Question of Kyrgyzes' ethnic origin in Chinese sources) // Works of History Institute of Kirgiz SSR Academy of Sciences, Issue IV, Frunze, 1958, p. 169-175
- The Kirgiz inscription from Sudja. // the Soviet Oriental Studies, № 3, 1958. p. 133-135.
- Horse Tamgas from Vassal Princedoms, (Translation of the Chinese composition of VIII - X centuries Tanhuyyao) // Works of History, Archeology and Ethnography Institute, 1960, Vol. VIII, p. 93-140
- Chinese news about Suyab // News Kazakh Academy of Sciences. Series of History, archeology and ethnography, Alma-Ata, 1960. Issue 3 (14). pp. 87-96.
- Ethnic history of Usuns. // Works of Institute of History, archeology and ethnography Kazakh Academy of Sciences. Vol. VIII. Alma-Ata, 1960. pp. 5-25.
- From Ancient Türkic etnonymy in Chinese sources // Works of Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of Kazakh Academy of Sciences. Vol. XV. Alma-Ata, 1962. pp. 104-122.
- Ancient Türkic genealogic legends as a source on early history of Türks. (Author's abstract of PhD dissertation), Alma-Ata, 1967
- Semantics of ethnonym Imur/Imir // News of Turkmen SSR Academy of Sciences, Issue 4, Ashkhabad, 1968, pp. 95-96
- Kirgiz - Buruts // Soviet Ethnography. No 4, М., 1970.
- Rashid ad-din "Djami at-Tavarih" as a source on early history of Djalairs //Eastern Written monuments, М., 1972. pp. 178-185
- Yuechji and Kushans in Chinese sources // Central Asia in Kushan epoch, Vol. 1, 1974.
- Political history of Huns, Usuns and Kangyui (Kangar) / History of Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata, 1977, Vol. 1, pp. 284-293.
- Western Türkic Kaganate / History of Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata, 1977, Vol. 1, pp. 321-336.
- Invasion of Kidans / History of Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata, 1979, Vol. 2, pp. 33-37.
- Karahytai in Jeti-su / History of Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata, 1979, Vol. 2. pp. 38-43.
- Ethnocultural connections of early Kimeks // News of Kazakhstan Republic Academy of Sciences, Almaty, 1992, No 5, pp. 26-38.
- Sarmato-Alans of Aral (Yancai\Abzoya) // Culture of nomads at boundary of centuries (ХIХ-ХХ, ХХ-ХХI centuries): problems of genesis and transformation. (Materials of the International conference), Almaty, 1995. pp. 38-68.
- Creation of Türgesh Kaganate: History and tradition // Evolution of Kazakhstan statehood. Almaty, 1996. pp. 30-34.
- Semantics of the term "Karluk" // Evolution of Kazakhstan statehood, Almaty, 1996, pp. 35-39.
- Ancient Türkic social terminology in Chinese text of VIII century // Questions of Kazakhstan archeology, Almaty-Moscow, 1998, Issue 2, pp. 153-161.
- Forms of ethno-social organization of nomadic peoples in Central Asia in antiquity and Middle Ages: pied horde, centuria (comparative - typological study) // Military art of nomads of Central Asia and Kazakhstan (Antiquity Epoch and Middle Ages), Almaty, 1998, pp. 49-100.
- Kypchak Urbe-khan in epos and history // Ancient Türkic civilization: monuments of writing. Almaty, 2001, pp. 419-430.
- Early Türks: Essays on History and Ideology, Almaty, 2002,
- A Strongest Tribe. Historical and cultural interrelations of Iran and Dasht-i Kipchak, Almaty, 2004, pp. 31-68.
- Seyanto Kaganate and Kimeks (Türkic etnogeography. Central Asia in the middle of the VII century) // Shygys, No 1, pp. 11-22, No 2, pp. 3-26, 2004