Pongsa Kile

Pongsa Kile (Nanai: Поӈса Киле; Понгса Константинович Киле; 1918–1990) was a Nanai poet and ethnographer of the Soviet period.

He died in 1990 in Amursk. He was buried in the village of Naikhin. According to his wife Maria Kile, her husband's will included a call to future generations to try to preserve their culture and avoid its “stylization” and distortion.

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Translations into foreign languages

 * ポンサ K.キレ著. Нанайские национальные игры = ナーナイの民族遊戯 / ポンサ K.キレ著 ; 佐々木史郎, 匹田剛, 津曲敏郎編訳. — Otaru: Language Center of Otaru University of Commerce, 1993. — (ツングース言語文化論集, 2).