Nifont Ivanovich Dolgopolov

Background

Dolgopolov Nifont Ivanovich was born in 1857, Biryuch city, Voronezh governorate, Russia (now Biryuch, Belgorod Oblast, Russian Federation).

Education

Learned at Voronezh Religious Seminary, graduated from the Medical Faculty of Kharkiv University (1887).

Career

In 1884-1886 was practicing medicine in Semipalatinsk where he met Kazakh poet and luminary, Abai Kunanbaev, and influenced him a lot. After graduating from University was a doctor in Yekaterinoslavsk governorate, Kursk, Tula governorate, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan.A Deputy of State Duma II (Social-Revolutionaries fraction) of Nizhny Novgorod governorate. Was sent to Kurgan city, Tobolskaya governorate (1879) for participation in the club of "Narodnaya Volya" movement and student demonstrations. In 1884-1886 was practicing medicine in Semipalatinsk where he met Kazakh poet and luminary, Abai Kunanbaev, and influenced him a lot.Cooperated with "Sibirskaya gazeta" and "Yekaterinburg nedelya".

Achievements

• Was doing anthropologic research of Kazakhs. One of Nizhny Novgorod streets named after Dolgopolov.

Works

• brochure

  • Tolstoy as a Life Coach and a Pedagogue

    (In Memory of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.)

    1910

Connections

colleague:

Abai Kunanbaev

colleague:

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

colleague:

Stepan Gavrilovich Skitalets

cplleague:

Maxim Gorky

colleague:

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

colleague:

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko