Background
Andrey Anokhin was born in a village Right Lamki in Tambov Governorate"s Arjan district.
Andrey Anokhin was born in a village Right Lamki in Tambov Governorate"s Arjan district.
Anokhin graduated Biysk missionary school, continued his training in the Moscow Synodal School, and later took courses in the Saint St. Petersburg imperial court singing chapel. Andrey Anokhin studied a musical culture of Altaians, recorded and processed more than 500 Altai songs, and about 300 songs of Teleuts, Khakases, and Tuvinians.
In the beginning of 1870 his family moved to Biysk. From 1900 Anokhin taught and composed in Tomsk. He joined the Tomsk branch of the Russian Musical Society and the Tomsk Society for Siberian studies led by Grigory Potanin.
From 1906 to 1931 Anokhin made numerous ethnographic and folklore expeditions across Southern Siberia, Mongolia, and Eastern Kazakhstan.
Anokhin worked with the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), which stores the materials of Anokhin"s expeditions. He produced descriptions of national musical instruments, distinct musical harmonics, tonality and rhythm of the national songs and musical compositions.
From 1918 Anokhin worked in Chemal school in Altai, from 1921 he lived in Barnaul, teaching music and singing. He became an initiator of a concert series that included his compositions, a suite "Khan-Altai", poem "Khan-Erlik", an oratorio "Talai-khan".
He authored musical compositions on Altai themes "Sary-khan", "Kanza-biy", "Tabyskak", some of his songs developed into folk songs.
From 1926 he lived in Gorno-Altaysk. One of his students was a future prominent Turkologist professor Leonid Potapov.
In 1923 for his research about the beliefs of southern Altaians, Anokhin was elected a Corresponding Member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.