Morin Khuur Ensemble of Mongolia - Gobi Desert Deep in My Heart

ANOKHIN Andrey Viktorovich (1874, Biysk-31 VIII 1931, Kuyum tract, now the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region) is a Soviet musician-ethnographer and composer. Studied in Moscow. synodal school and at regency courses singing chapel in St. Petersburg. He taught singing in decomp. educational institutions of Tomsk, led the choir of the local cathedral, was engaged in composition. He was a member of the Society for the Study of Siberia, Tomsk Dep. RMO, a member of the Potaninsky Circle. Under the influence of G. N. Potanin, he began to study the culture of Turkic nationalities of Zap. Siberia, recorded approx. 800 tunes of Altai, Teleuts, Khakass, Tuvans. For the publication of the revolution. underground journal. “Working Voices” and the composition of revolutionary choirs. songs was expelled from Tomsk and deprived of the right to teach in state educational institutions. After Oct. revolution taught the choir. singing and local history in Chemal (1917-22 and since 1929),Barnaul (1922-26), Gorno-Altaysk (1926-29); made ethnographic expeditions, recorded nar. to the music.