Background
Blazhes, Valentin Vladimirovitch was born on February 29, 1936 in Svobodnyy Town, Russia. Son of Vladimir Ustinovitch and Pelageya Filipovna (Smirnova) Blazhes.
Blazhes, Valentin Vladimirovitch was born on February 29, 1936 in Svobodnyy Town, Russia. Son of Vladimir Ustinovitch and Pelageya Filipovna (Smirnova) Blazhes.
He studied Russian epic poetry, folk culture and language, workers" folklore, the Remezov Chronicle, the Stroganov Chronicle, and other Old Russian Chronicles.
He was an expert in the fields of Old Russian literature, folk literature and folklore, especially the folklore of the Ural region, which he became interested in as a student. He authored a number of articles on historical, toponymic, family folklore. Blazhes was born in the Vedyonovka village, Seryshevsky District, Amur Oblast.
He served in the Soviet army from 1955 to 1958, and after that entered the Ural State University.
In 1963 he graduated from the Philological Department. He worked for two years as a teacher at Russian school near Sysert.
He then headed the Folklore and Ancient Literature Department at the university, and was a dean of the Philology Department from 1988 to 2004. From 1993 until death he led the folkloric expeditions of the Ural University.
He also the member of the academic senate of the United Museum of Ural Writers from 1994 to 1999.
Married Ludmila Vasilyevna Dorovskih, September 1, 1967.