The Content and Significance of N.M. Yadrintsevs Expedition to the Altai Mountain District in 1880
Содержание и значение экспедиции Н.М. Ядринцева в Алтайский горный округ в 1880 году
Golovinov A.V. Ibragimov Z. Dolzhikov V.A. Ishekov K.A.
1 December 2025Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2025#20Issue 41940 - 1949 pp.
The study is aimed at identifying the substantive significance of the expeditionary activities of the pre-revolutionary traveler and public figure Nikolai Mikhailovich Yadrintsev for the resettlement policy pursued in the Russian Empire. The object of the analysis was the expedition of the famous Siberian to the Altai Mountain District, which took place in 1880. The source base of the work was composed of written and published sources, such as publications about the trip to Altai in periodicals of the imperial period of Russian history. Also included in the work were the books of N. M. Yadrintsev “Siberia as a Colony” and “Siberian Foreigners. Their Life and Current Situation”. Ego-sources, such as autobiographical notes, where the author explains his impressions of the Russian Altai, were also important. Methodologically, this study is based on the methodology of narrative history. The method of cognition, in our opinion, will contribute to the identification and reconstruction of discursive moments and, accordingly, key facts and information for understanding the significance of the Altai wanderings of the famous Siberian. The authors have established that the scientific reports of N.M. Yadrintsev on the expeditions of 1879 and 1880 and the articles written on their basis “A Trip to Western Siberia and to the Gorno-Altai District”, “On Maral Breeding in Altai” and others are of scientific value today. Subsequently, the researcher placed the results of his scientific work in the form of a whole series of publications in the national periodical press. He fruitfully collaborated with the editors of many Russian publications from 1864 until his death. Articles by N.M. Yadrintsev was readily published in his time by Vestnik Evropy, Delo, Nedelya, Otechestvennye zapiski, Russkie vedomosti, Russkaya zhizn, Russkoe slovo, Russkoe bogatstvo, Sibirskaya zhizn, Tomskie gubernskie vedomosti and other leading newspapers and magazines. It is emphasized that the main result of the expedition was the demonstration of the natural resources of Gorny Altai and Southern Siberia as a whole, as well as informing the public and administration about the positive experience of ethnocultural interaction on the Altai land.
Altai , development of Siberia , ethnographic expeditions , N.M. Yadrintsev , regionalism , resettlement policy , Russian Empire , Siberia
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