chichlo

flag france Boris Chichlo
Ethnologist • France

“Threatened by the global change and the mining industries, the people of the Siberian Arctic need our help more than ever”


Boris Chichlo is a major expert in Siberian issues. Holder of a doctorate in ethnography from the University of Leningrad, his first field trips were in the ‘forbid­­den zones’ of the Yakutia and Chukotka (1971-1976) to study the fate of minorities in the Soviet Arctic. Doctor of the Sorbonne, he is pursues in France his research into the transformation of indigenous societies in the Siberian Arctic at France’s National Centre for Scientific Research.

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