The contribution of Sergey Tokarev to the formation and development of Soviet ethnography is difficult to overestimate. The scientist has always been distinguished by the extraordinary breadth of scientific interests. Tokarev’s knowledge was striking in its encyclopedia. For many years, Sergey Alexandrovich conducted fruitful scientific, teaching and publishing activities.
From the biography of Sergei Alexandrovich Tokarev
The future Soviet ethnographer was born in Tula on December 29, 1899. Sergey’s father led the gymnasium. Junior Tokarev began his career in 1917 with the post of school teacher. Four years later, the young man decided to continue his education and entered the Faculty of Social Sciences, which he graduated in 1925. In subsequent years, Sergei Alexandrovich made a solid career in science.
Since 1927, Tokarev is a researcher at the Central Museum of Ethnology. In 1932, he led the sector of the North. Subsequently, he worked at the Academy of the History of Material Culture and the Central Anti-Religious Museum.
During the war he was evacuated, headed the Department of History of the Abakan Teachers Institute. In 1943, Tokarev was offered to head the sector at the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnography, created in the system of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1961, Sergei Alexandrovich began to lead the sector of ethnography of the peoples of Europe. At the same time, the scientist led the Department of Ethnography at the History Department of Moscow State University. The daughter of Sergey Tokarev, Eugene, became a specialist in the field of religious studies.
