Aleksander Jackowski

In 1940 he was sent by Soviets from Lviv to Siberia, where he first came in contact with the folk culture of the Khanty.

He worked as a lumberjack, bellman, tractor driver, stove fitter, turner and locksmith.

Until 1948, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the director of the Minister's Cabinet managing the Press and Information Department.

At that time he started a big field project of collecting Polish Music and Verbal Folklores.

He was the longtime associate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Committee of Ethnological Sciences in Polish Academy of Sciences, Council of Culture Foundation, Council of the Centre for Contemporary Art and juror of the “Małe ojczyzny” (Small Homelands) competitions.