HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAR NORTH OF YAKUTIA AS THE INITIAL STAGE OF FORMATION OF THE NORTHERN TEXT

Abstract

The article considers the main historical stages that reveal the process of forming a «corpus of texts» about the Far North of Yakutia in written sources and in the artistic tradition (based on travel, historical and ethnographic, local history essays, materials of Arctic expeditions, diaries and biographies, as well as the formation of an image The Far North in the artistic tradition of the early twentieth century). The periodization of the origin and development of the image of the Far North of Yakutia in written sources, the design of its symbolic expression is proposed: the first mention of the Verkhoyansk ulus in written sources refers to the 1770-s ХVШ century; from the beginning of the nineteenth century - these are travel notes written by travelers during a visit to a remote marginal area, attention to the North was stimulated by the programs of scientific expeditions directed to the polar latitudes; pre-revolutionary Far North; revolutionary upheavals as a dramatic period in the history of the Far North; the period of Soviet construction and the years of the Great Patriotic War; post-war period; post-Soviet space; state of the art.