СОКРОВИЩА ФОНДА РЕДКИХ КНИГ И АРХИВНЫХ ДОКУМЕНТОВ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКИ РЕСПУБЛИКИ САХА (ЯКУТИЯ)

Abstract

The article examines the owner's collections of northern scholars in the fund of the Scientific Research Center of Book Monuments of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The library has a collection of rare books and valuable documents, significant in number and content. The staff of the main book depository of the northern republic is carrying out a large-scale and socially significant in terms of goals and objectives systematic work to identify, study and popularize book monuments and archival documents. The paper provides a brief history of the formation of the center's fund, information from the biographies of the owners of private libraries: linguist and ethnographer Glafira Makarievna Vasilevich, scholar-northern scholar Claudia Aleksandrovna Novikova, the scientist-northern scholar Chuner Mikhailovich Taksami, historian-ethnographer Ilya Samuilovich Gurvich, ethnologist Ulla Johansen. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of rare collections transferred to the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are substantiated, the value of personal libraries as cultural phenomena — book monuments and information sources on languages, history, ethnography, folklore of the peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. The National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) fulfills a high mission — it carries out a huge range of measures to preserve rare books and documents, and at the same time provides access to the intellectual and cultural heritage of Russian northern scholars. The article actualizes the problem of preserving and popularizing knowledge about culture, languages, folklore, ethnography of the peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East in the context of the loss of traditional values of material and spiritual culture by the indigenous people of the North and the Arctic at the beginning of the 21st century. The authors consider the study of the richest funds of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the process of a comprehensive analysis of the owner's collections of book monuments and the archival heritage of Russian northern scholars as a priority task of the historical and cultural sciences. The paper considers the main directions of the activities of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the field of preserving the phenomena of the cultural heritage of the northern peoples; the activity of the Scientific Research Center of Book Monuments has been analyzed; the personal collections of northern scholars are described and systematized. As a general task, the postulate of the development of the concept of preservation for future generations of the values of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the North and the Arctic is put forward.