ЗАВЕРШАЮЩИЙ ЭТАП ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ БЮРО КРАЕВЕДЕНИЯ ССОРГО В ПРИЕНИСЕЙСКОЙ СИБИРИ (1929–1930 ГГ.)

Abstract

1929–1930 are dated as the final stage of the activity of Bureau of Local Studies (since 1929 known as Bureau Massive of Local Studies) in Krasnoyarsk. For a short period, there were created institutional and financial facilities for its work, cooperation with local studies circles were intensified, the educational and agitational campaigns were launched on the factories. Special attention was paid to the description of the natural wealth of the distinct districts (i.e. forests and fodder supply, cedar craft, extractable resources, hunting, fishing and environmental protection), folk medicine and veterinary medicine. At the same time, gradual focus shifting from real work to design instructional programs and questionaries led to formalisation of their activity, and employee-members lost their interest to researches. In March 1930 Bureau of Local Studies stopped their activity. From the beginning of 1930 the government set about increasing centralization and unification of local studies organizations, dissolution of their independence to turn local studies into powerful social and political movement to serve socialist construction under the full government and party control. There was created a graduated system of local studies organisations. So Middle Siberian Branch of Russian Geographical Society was turned into Studying of Eastern Siberia Branch in Irkutsk. Further there were created subdivisions in Turukhansk, Balakhta, Kansk and Yeniseysk. To 1937 total bureaucratization, forced focus of attention not on the science, but on the propaganda, mobbing of experienced hands down to repressions, resulted into the dissolution of local studies organizations in the country. The activity of Bureau of Local Studies is examined and analysed in details on the basis of archive materials of State Archive of the Krasnoyarsk Territory about arranging of the mass local studies in 1929–1930.