ANSHBA ARTHUR ARTEMOVICH

ANSHBA ARTHUR ARTEMOVICH  
02.01.1936-19.12.1985

Born on 02 January 1936 in Tkuarchal, Abkhazian ASSR, Abkhazian Caucasian folklorist, epic scholar, literary critic, expert on the Nart epic, Abkhazian fiction. candidate of philological sciences (1966).  
Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1978) and the Union of Writers of Abkhazia.
Graduated from Sukhumi secondary school No. 2 in 1955. He entered the philological faculty of the A.M. Gorky Sukhumi State Pedagogical Institute. 
He worked as a teacher of Abkhazian literature at the Abkhazian Language and Literature Department of the Sukhumi State Pedagogical Institute in 1960-1962.  
In 1966 he defended his PhD thesis on the poetics of the Abkhazian Nart epic at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 
In 1967, he worked as head of the editorial department of the newspaper Apsny Kapsh (Red Abkhazia), from the same year he worked as a researcher, then senior researcher at the D. I. Gulia Institute of Language, Literature and History of Abkhazia. D. I. Gulia. Anshba's main field of scientific activity was the problems of Abkhazian folklore and literature, to which he devoted more than 80 works (including a number of monographic studies and collections of articles, essays and materials). He made a significant contribution to the science of folklore. 
The Caucasian Nartiad occupies a special place in his work. His three books are devoted to the study of the ethics and style of the Nart epic of the Abkhaz, the relationship between folklore and reality. Artur Artemovich Anshba made a significant contribution to the collection of Abkhaz folklore materials from the 1960s to the 1980s. 
He has recorded about 1000 texts, the bulk of which have only recently been published. 
His literary and literary-critical articles are devoted to the life and work of D. I. Gulia, S. Y. Chanba, M. A. Lakrba, D. H. Darsalia, B. V. Shinkuba, I. K. Tarba, A. K. Jenia, T. S. Ajba, S. H. Tarkila, N. T. Kvitsinia and others, textology of literature, lyrics, short stories, fiction translation, history of Abkhazian literature. He was the first in Abkhazian literary studies to address the problem of textology of national literature. 
He was one of the authors of "Essays on the History of Abkhazian Literature" (Sukhumi, 1974) and "History of Abkhazian Literature" (Sukhumi, 1986; in Abkhazian). 
Died on 19 December 1985, Sukhum. 
Publications:  
Some artistic features of Abkhazian Nart stories. Sukhumi, 1968, in Abkhaz language.; 
The questions of poetics of the Abkhazian Nart epic. Tbilisi, 1970; 
Abkhazian folk tales and songs / Compiled by A. A. Anshba, S. L. Zukhba, Sh. H. Salakaya: A. A. Anshba, S. L. Zukhba, Sh. H. Salakaya. Sukhumi, 1970, in Abkhaz language.; 
Mikhail Lakerbay. (Creative Portrait). Sukhumi, 1979 (co-authored with V. V. Darsalia); 
The connection of times. Literary-critical articles. Sukhumi, 1980, in Abkhaz language; 
Abkhazian folklore and reality. Tbilisi, 1982; 
Abkhazian folk poetry / Per. from Abkh. N. Grebnev; comp. and commentary. A. A. Anshba and S. L. Zukhba; foreword by A. A. Anshba. L. Zukhba; foreword by A. A. Anshba. Sukhumi, 1983; 
Samson Chanba. (Critical and biographical sketch). Sukhumi, 1985 (co-authored with V. V. Darsalia), in Abkhaz language; 
The Magic Seal: Abkhazian fairy tales / Arranged by A. A. Anshba. Sukhumi, 1985, in Abkhaz language; 
The roll call of the times. Articles. Sukhumi, 1986, in Abkhaz language; 
Abkhazian folklore: Records of Arthur Anshba / Compiled, textual arrangement of records, foreword, notes and indexes by Z. D. Dzhapua. Sukhum, 1995,in Abkhaz language.   
About him: 
Zukhba S.L. Who had something to say and knew how to say it // Anshba A. The Roll Call of the Times: Articles. Sukhum, 1986. P.3–8 (in Abkhaz language); 
Kapba R. H. That the times will echo // Alashara. 1987. № 7. P.117–124 (in Abkhaz language); 
Damenia O. N. The sketches of Abkhazian culture. Sukhumi, 1990. P.63–68 (in Abkhaz language); 
Dzhapua Z. D. Arthur Anshba and the book of his folklore records // Abkhazian folklore: Records of Arthur Anshba / Compiled, textual arrangement of records, foreword, notes and indexes by Z. D. Dzhapua. Sukhum, 1995. P.3–20 (in Abkhaz language); 
Zvinaria V. L. Arthur Anshba: Man. Friend. Scientist // Alashara. 1998. № 1. P.86–96 (in Abkhaz language); 
Dzhapua Z. D. To the 70th anniversary of A. A. Anshba (Speech at the jubilee conference) // Abkhaz Studies. Proceedings of Abkhazian Studies: Language. Folklore. Literature. Sukhum, 2009. P.222–231 (in Abkhaz language); 
Japua Z.D. Eminent scientist who left an unforgettable legacy // Alashara. №1. 2011. P.142–150 (in Abkhaz language); 
Dzhapua Z. D. From the history of the publication of field materials (Records of A.A. Anshba) // Slavic traditional culture and the modern world. Vol. 15.: Strategy and practice of field research: Collection of scientific articles. Moscow: State Republican Centre of Russian Folklore, 2012. P.192–200; 
Biguaa V. A., Dzhapua Z. D. Anshba Artur Artemovich // Abkhaz Biographical Dictionary / Edited by V. V. Avidzba. Sh. Avidzba. Moscow-Sukhum, 2015. P. 87–88.
ANSHBA ARTHUR ARTEMOVICH

02.01.1936-19.12.1985

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