DOCTOR AND FOLK ARTIST.—Lyudmila Vagalnaut, a medical assistant in the Soviet Far East and an amateur folk artist, in her national costume. A graduate of the Petropavlovsk Medical School, she has been working at a polyclinic there for 10 years, visiting reindeer breeders’ camps, hunters’ watering places, and parts of the tundra by sled. Her dances and songs, taken from the traditions of the Karyak people, have won several prizes at folk festivals. She makes her own national costumes for performances, as well as bags, boots and hats in the national tradition.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32321, 12 June 1970, Page 2
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92DOCTOR AND FOLK ARTIST.—Lyudmila Vagalnaut, a medical assistant in the Soviet Far East and an amateur folk artist, in her national costume. A graduate of the Petropavlovsk Medical School, she has been working at a polyclinic there for 10 years, visiting reindeer breeders’ camps, hunters’ watering places, and parts of the tundra by sled. Her dances and songs, taken from the traditions of the Karyak people, have won several prizes at folk festivals. She makes her own national costumes for performances, as well as bags, boots and hats in the national tradition. Press, Volume CX, Issue 32321, 12 June 1970, Page 2
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