Anna Mitrofanovna Konkova

Anna Mitrofanovna Konkova, a Mansi storyteller and writer, who made a significant contribution to the development of the Ob-Ugric culture with her work.
She was born on July 28, 1916 in the village of Evre in the Kondinsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Her career began in 1937 after graduating from the Khanty-Mansiysk Pedagogical College in the national schools of the Berezovsky district, and then in a nomadic school on Lake Pyzhyan in the Khanty-Mansiysk district. In 1946, she moved to Khanty-Mansiysk. She worked in kindergartens and schools in the city. She has given more than thirty years to children.

After retiring in 1967, Anna Mitrofanovna seriously engaged in literary work. She communicated a lot with writers, ethnographers, folklorists, scientists from Estonia, Hungary, Germany, France, and England. Her home has always been associated with the hospitality of the hostess. Not only people related to literary work liked to visit there. This world attracted many people.

Since 1976, Anna Mitrofanovna’s fairy tales have been actively published in the district newspaper Leninskaya Pravda. In 1981, the fairy tales were published in the collection "Fire-stone", published in Sverdlovsk. In 1982, the first novel in Mansi literature "And the moons of the Slow Stream" was published, written by Anna Mitrofanovna in collaboration with the Tyumen prose writer G. Sazonov. After that, the book was reprinted two more times — in 1990 and 1994. In 1989, A.M. Konkova was accepted into the USSR Writers' Union.

In 1985, the book "Tales of Grandma Anne" was published in a separate edition. It was a significant event in the author’s life. In 1993, "Tales of Grandma Anne" was republished.

By the 75th anniversary of the writer, a miniature "The Leader of the Ivyr" with illustrations by the artist Gennady Raishev was published, which became a bibliographic rarity immediately after its publication. Anna Mitrofanovna called the last lifetime edition "A Date with childhood" (1996). The works were translated into English, Hungarian, Polish, and Czech.

Anna Mitrofanovna’s talent and work were awarded: the Order of Honor, the title "Honored Cultural Worker of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug", in 1988 she became the holder of the title "Honorary Citizen of the city of Khanty-Mansiysk".

She died on December 3, 1999, and was buried in Khanty-Mansiysk. In 2000, she was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug".