Scientific Contribution of N.M. Yadrintsev into National and World Turkology
Научный вклад Н.М. Ядринцева в отечественную и мировую тюркологию
Golovinov A.V. Dolzhikov V.A. Matayeva M.
1 June 2024Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2024#19Issue 2849 - 856 pp.
The article analyzes factual material about a little-studied aspect of N.M.’s research activities. Yadrintsev, who is better known in modern Russia as a geographer and ethnologist. The purpose of the study is to, by summarizing available data, clarify its role in the history of national and world Turkology in the second half of the 19th century. What mattered were the paradigms of the “new intellectual and cultural history”. The toolkit allows us to identify the contribution of a certain historical figure to the desired scientific field in the context of the mental achievements of the historical period. Therefore, this methodology is aimed as objectively as possible at demonstrating the contribution of N.M. Yadrintsev into national and world Turkology. The material notes that for world Turkology the joint scientific triumph of Yadrintsev, Radlov and Thomsen was of key historical significance. After them, researchers in Russia and other countries could freely decipher the newly discovered ancient Turkic written sources. Thanks to the major research achievements of 1889 N.M. Yadrintsev acquired well-deserved world fame as an archaeologist and ethnologist. During the winter months of 1890, after returning to St. Petersburg from Mongolia, he made several reports in scientific societies and published materials about his discoveries in the press. The authors of the article emphasize the connection between the Altai complex expeditions of 1878 and 1880 and subsequent archaeological research by Yadrintsev in the Mongolian part of Greater Altai. In particular, the author highlights, firstly, his discovery of the famous Orkhon inscriptions in Mongolia in 1889, and, secondly, the establishment of the historical and geographical locus of the metropolis of the ancient Turkic and ancient Mongolian nomadic empires - Karakorum. Attention is drawn to the indisputable achievements of the discoverer of monuments of ancient Turkic writing. The final conclusions noted the worldwide scale of N.M.’s personal contribution. Yadrintseva in Turkology. Copyright
Altaic studies , Central Asia , Karakorum , N.M. Yadrintsev , Orkhon inscriptions , Siberian regionalism , Turkology
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Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation
Alikhan Bokeikhan University, Semey, Kazakhstan
Altai State University
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