List of Tuvans
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Tuvans or Tuvinians are Turkic peoples living in southern Siberia. They are historically known as one of the Uriankhai, from the Mongolian designation...
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- Kaigal-ool KhovalygKaigal-ool KhovalygKaigal-ool Khovalyg is a Tuvan throat singer and co-founder of the Tuvan music group Huun-Huur-Tu.A self-taught overtone singer, Khovalyg worked as a shepherd until the age of 21. His musical career began when he was invited to join the Tuvan State Ensemble. He settled in Kyzyl and started teaching...
, singer - Donduk KuularDonduk KuularDonduk Kuular was a Tuvan monk, politician, and first prime minister of the Tuvinian People's Republic.Donduk was originally a Lamaist monk. As leader of a group of Russian-supported Bolsheviks, he proclaimed the independence of the People's Republic of Tannu Tuva, in 1921. He subsequently...
, TuvaTuvaThe Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the geographical center of Asia, in southern Siberia. The republic borders with the Altai Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, and the Republic of Buryatia in Russia and with Mongolia to the...
's first prime-minister - Albert KuvezinAlbert KuvezinAlbert Kuvezin is a Tuvan guitarist and throat singer.Kuvezin was one of the founding members of the Tuvan folk ensemble Huun-Huur-Tu, and is the leader of the Tuvan folk/rock/electro/post punk band Yat-Kha...
, singer - Maxim MunzukMaxim MunzukMaxim Monguzhukovich Munzuk - 28 July 1999) was an outstanding Tuvan actor, one of the founders of Tuva's regional theatre. He is best known for playing the title role in Akira Kurosawa's film Dersu Uzala....
, actor - Sainkho NamtchylakSainkho NamtchylakSainkho Namtchylak is a singer originally from Tuva, a small autonomous republic in the Russian Federation just north of Mongolia. She is known for her Tuvan throat singing or Khöömei.-Style:...
, singer - Kongar-ol Ondar, singer
- Sherig-ool OorzhakSherig-ool OorzhakSherig-ool Dizizhikovich Oorzhak graduated Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural academy in 1971. Then he was an economist, director in the state farm "Shekpeer" in 1971-1980....
TuvaTuvaThe Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the geographical center of Asia, in southern Siberia. The republic borders with the Altai Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, and the Republic of Buryatia in Russia and with Mongolia to the...
's current president - Oyun-ool Sat, designer of Tuvan flag
- Sergey Shoygu Russia's Emergencies minister
- Solchak Toka TuvaTuvaThe Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the geographical center of Asia, in southern Siberia. The republic borders with the Altai Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, and the Republic of Buryatia in Russia and with Mongolia to the...
's second prime-minister - Galsan TschinagGalsan TschinagGalsan Tschinag , born Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa, is internationally known as a Mongolian writer of novels, poems, and essays in the German language, though he hails from a Tuvan background...
, MongoliaMongoliaMongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...
n writer - Gennadi TumatGennadi TumatGennadi Tumat was a renowned Tuvinian master of throat singing.-See also:...
, singer - Khertek Anchimaa-TokaKhertek Anchimaa-TokaKhertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka was a Tuvinian/Soviet politician who in 1940-1944 was a chairman of Little Khural of Tuvan People's Republic, and the first elected or appointed female head of state in the modern world.-Biography:Khertek Anchimaa was born in what is now Bay-Tayginsky...
, politician - Nikolay Oorzhak, shaman and throatsinger