КОМПЛЕКСНАЯ ЭКСПЕДИЦИЯ НА ПОДКАМЕННУЮ ТУНГУСКУ. ВЗГЛЯД ЧЕРЕЗ СТОЛЕТИЕ. 1921–2021 ГГ.

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of the results of a comprehensive expedition of the Museum of the Yenisei Territory and the Krasnoyarsk Department of the Russian Geographical Society in 1921 to the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The purpose of the study is to introduce into scientific circulation the materials of the expedition in the field of archeology, ethnography, ornithology and botany. The main complete collections are indicated in the indicated areas. Such scientific methods as comparative-historical, natural science, field observations, analogies and others are used. The chronology of the stages of the expedition, its route, the composition of the participants and their role in achieving the goals are given. The result of the expedition is the collection of 2,300 items in all major branches of local lore knowledge of the Yenisei North. The subject of the study is a zoological collection of 817 items, a herbarium of 782 exhibits, 216 units of geological samples and fossils, 410 items of Evenk and Russian ethnography and 45 archeological artifacts. For the first time, archival illustrative material on the expedition is presented. The results obtained by the expedition members a hundred years ago are compared with modern scientific ideas. Along the route of the 1921 expedition, modern monitoring of the state of objects was carried out. The authors concluded that the expedition collected unique materials in the north of the Yenisei province. They significantly expanded scientific information and replenished museum collections.