About Yulian
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My father was born in 1946 in the port city of Varna, Bulgaria. His secondary school education was in Plovdiv (English Language School, 1960-65), and the higher at Sofia University (English Philology, 1967-72). After his military service, he was a lecturer at the English Department of Sofia University until 1996. He then turned to Social Anthropology which took him to the University of Tromsø, Norway. He was engaged as a Research Professor with his main field of interest in the Far North of Russia, Murmansk Region. There, in the tundra of the Kola Peninsula, he worked with the reindeer herding Sami and Komi people of Lovozero District. For nearly a quarter of a century, he studied the age-long connection between humans and reindeer. His three books and numerous articles established him as a dedicated fieldworker and scholar of tundra life.

After his retirement in 2016 and his return to Bulgaria, he began his work with Golden jackals. He was interested in their social life which made him decide to live side-by-side with them on the Danube bank. In close cooperation with zoologists from the National History Museum in Sofia, he began writing about jackals too. This work he is continuing to this day.

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