G.A. SEPEYEV’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESEARCH OF THE MARI PEOPLE CULTURE
The article is devoted to the life path and scientiﬁc creativity of the well-known in Russia and abroad ethnographer Gennadiy Andreyevich Sepeyev. G.A. Sepeyev’s researches were devoted to mainly to the traditional and modern material culture of the Mari people. His monograph «Eastern Maris» (Yoshkar-Ola, 1975) is a classic ethnographic study. It dedicated to the peculiarities of the material culture of this group. The scientist made a signiﬁcant contribution to the study of settlement of the Mari, the study of modern ethnic processes, in qualiﬁed ethnographers-researches, scientiﬁc and methodical publications. G.A. Sepeyev’s research contribution to the study of culture of the Mari people is huge; his work will always be in demand by the scientiﬁc community.