The paper discusses issues related to corporate social responsibility of industrial companies in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. The article analyzes the Soviet experience associated with the most dangerous tailings dumps for the environment on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (the tailings of the Kularsky Gold Recovery Factory, the tailings of the Deputy Mining and Processing Plant), as well as the modern experience of mining companies in the field of corporate social responsibility. The role of ethnological expertise as a mechanism for assessing the impact of business projects in the Arctic on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples of the North, their traditional way of life and native habitat is revealed. Moreover, it is noted that ethnological expertise serves not only to calculate the losses of the rightholders of land plots and compensation payments, but also as a basis for equal cooperation between the population, the state and industrial companies in order to create conditions for improving the quality of life of Northerners. The legal framework and law enforcement practice are analyzed, statistical data are provided, on the basis of which it is proposed to develop and adopt two regulatory legal acts of the federal level affecting issues of corporate social responsibility and ethnological expertise (based on the law enforcement experience of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

The article deals with some aspects of managing the process of «northern delivery» of life-supporting goods to hard-to-reach territories of the northern regions. In the absence of a unified framework for regulatory and legal management and unified mechanisms of state regulation, there are heterogeneous approaches to supporting the importation of goods and different regional practices. The performed retrospective analysis describes a number of attempts to form unified mechanisms of state support for the delivery of goods by distributing federal funds for reimbursement of transportation costs. Experience has shown the inconsistency of the applied practices, which led to the risk of disruption in the delivery of vital goods to the population. The problems associated with the uninterrupted delivery of goods within the framework of the «northern delivery» directly relate to the issues of food and energy security of the population of the Arctic territories. Despite significant changes in the approaches to solving this issue at the state level, aimed at improving the energy security of the regions and modernizing existing technologies, addressing the issues of ensuring the sustainability of the supply of fuel and energy resources and socially significant food products to the hard-to-reach territories of the Arctic is impossible without the consistent transformation and development of key organizational and economic mechanisms. One of the directions for the development of management systems of the «northern delivery» is the formation of unified organizational and economic mechanisms with the participation of the federal center for coordinating management decisions and financing.

The article reflects the results of the analysis of indicators of transport mobility of the population – the key indicators of the development of transport infrastructure laid down by the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2030. Eight resource regions belonging to the regions of the North are considered. Using the information and analytical resources of Rosstat and other open sources, databases of transport security indicators were built, on the basis of which an assessment of the transport connectivity of the regions was carried out. Using time series of effective indicators of transport systems and indicators characterizing the quality of life of the population, indicators of transport mobility of the population of Russia and the studied resource regions of the North are calculated, trends in their development are determined. Applying the methods of factor and comparative analysis, relative and integral indicators, the groups of factors that have the greatest impact on the transport mobility of the population in the northern regions of the resource type are determined. It has been established that individual factors play a major role in the indicators of transport mobility of the population, which makes it necessary to assess the degree of development of transport systems primarily at a qualitative rather than quantitative level. The revealed unevenness of the mutual influence of indicators of the development of public transport infrastructure and socio-economic indicators in the northern regions makes it possible in the future to make decisions when forecasting passenger traffic, substantiating projects for the development of transport infrastructure in the region.

The disproportion in the quality of life of the population between and within the regions of the Russian Federation is a phenomenon caused by objective factors. Identification of such disproportions is possible when conducting a comparative analysis of various indicators of the quality of life, both objective and subjective. The purpose of the study presented in this article was to compare and identify differences in the quality of life of the population of the Arctic and non-Arctic territories of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) based on the calculation of indices of respondents’ subjective assessments on the social, economic and political life of the population of the republic. The study was based on a database formed from the results of a sociological survey «Subjective assessment of the quality of life and well-being of the population of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)» conducted by the authors. Three components of the quality of life of the population (social, economic and political) were identified, in accordance with which the integral indices were calculated and the obtained indices were compared for the corresponding regions of Yakutia. Each integral index was calculated on the basis of partial indices, revealing the degree of satisfaction of the population with respect to various groups of issues of social, economic and political life. The index values for almost all groups of issues testified to the resolution of a wide range of issues, especially for the Arctic zone of the republic. The study confirms the thesis that the regions of the Arctic zone lag behind the rest of the republic in terms of social and economic life. The results of such studies based on data from subjective assessments and further calculations of integral indices can be introduced into methods for assessing the quality of life of the population and contribute to a clearer definition of directions for taking measures to equalize disproportions and differences in the quality of life of the population of the region. They can also be used as an additional source of information when analyzing the quality of life by methods based on objective assessments. Further comparison of subjective assessments with the results obtained on the basis of objective indicators of the quality of life will make it possible to specify directions for improving the quality of life of the population.

The article presents an integral assessment of the sustainability potential of the extractive industry of the northern regions of the resource type. The purpose of the article is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of socio-economic and environmental conditions by rating the sustainability of the studied regions. The objects of the study were selected eight Russian northern regions of the resource type. The assessment was carried out using the methods of mathematical statistics: aggregation and linear scaling of primary and intermediate indicators, and the degrees of stability of the regions were also determined. It was revealed that the most stable potential of the Khanty-Mansy Autonomous Okrug-UGRA, YamalNenets Autonomous okrug and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the least stable are the Komi Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The application of this methodological approach will allow the management bodies of the subjects, together with the subsoil users, to make objective decisions aimed at increasing the degree of balanced sustainable development of the northern and Arctic.

The study of landscape lyrics in the aspect of the author’s attitude has always been relevant. The reception of sensory figurativeness is actively used in the poetry of many authors, but as a subject of study in literary criticism it appears relatively recently, which is the scientific novelty. The article attempts to analyze the landscape lyrics of the modern Yakut poet Sergey Vladimirovich Moskvitin. When analyzing poems, comparative, linguistic, and stylistic methods were used. In total, 200 poems were studied, of which 50 were selected for analysis, dedicated to the description of nature. In order to find out better: what the author thinks about more often, what excites the author, these works were divided into seasons: autumn, winter, spring, summer. In the artistic world of the author, the theme of nature occupies a special place. The poet is very sensitive to the description of his native land, drawing in detail, immersing the reader in the Yakut landscapes. Moskvitin’s language is distinguished by enthusiasm and picturesqueness, while simplicity and accessibility for the reader. During the study, very curious and unexpected conclusions were made.

The publication is devoted to the anthroponymic traditions of the Evenki associated with the vocabulary of hunting. The relevance of the research is due to the need for scientific and applied activities aimed at preserving endangered languages and the growing interest of the young generation of Evenki in the ethnic traditions of naming. The purpose of the research is to determine the specifics of the anthroponymic traditions of the Evenki associated with the vocabulary of hunting. The objectives of the research are the following: to determine the basic worldview concepts associated with the traditions of hunting and visualized in the anthroponymy of the Evenki; identification of the main groups of Evenki «hunting» names according to their etymology; demonstration of word formation in the Evenki anthroponymicon based on agglutination. The research used methods of description, structural and contextual analysis. On the material of historical documents of the XVII century and folklore, the meanings of Evenki names are given, which are literal or figurative characteristics of their owners. As a result of the research, the authors come to the conclusion that the anthroponymic traditions of the Evenki are an important ethnographic source and show the great role of hunting in the economic traditions of the northern Tungus. According to the authors, the «hunting» anthroponymicon of the Evenki clearly demonstrates the high social status of the hunter as a breadwinner for the family and clan. The names of Evenki hunters and folklore characters reflect the unique characteristics of their owners, their skills and specialization in the types and ways of hunting, as well as ritual traditions associated with the hunting culture of the Evenki. The Evenki anthroponymic traditions are a prospective research in various scientific disciplines.

This article is devoted to working with dictionaries, namely with an associative dictionary and methods for compiling an associative field according to Yuri Nikolayevich Karaulov (Doctor of Philology, Soviet and Russian linguist, specialist in general and Russian linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, applied linguistics). He believes that in order to study the national and cultural features of the linguistic consciousness of different ethnic groups, it is convenient to use the structure called the «semantic gestalt» of the associative field. Such a structure of the field assumes a natural semantic classification of associates included in the field and is composed of several semantic zones, each of which is a characteristic of some essential feature. Thus, the purpose of the study is a morphological and syntactic analysis of the reactions of the concept «Arctic». The aim of the study is to work on reactions to the stimulus Arctic and parse the word into semantic zones. This article discusses in detail all the meanings and definitions from the explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language, as well as reactions from the Russian associative dictionary. As a result of the study, we revealed a completely different perception of the word «Arctic», which, perhaps, is influenced not only by the social status and age of the interviewed people, but also by their place of residence.

The Arctic as a unique and strategic region is the object of many interdisciplinary studies of domestic and foreign scientists. This article is devoted to the thematic characteristics of materials about the Arctic region, formed on the basis of publications in the electronic version of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞) for the period from 2020 to 2022. The relevance of this study is due to the fact that the thematic dominants will determine the main informational occasions of the Japanese media in the Arctic issues that affect the perception of the Arctic by the mass audience. The purpose of the study is to identify the thematic classification of materials about the Arctic that influence the formation of the image of the region among the mass audience of Japanese Internet resources. The work uses contextual and comparative methods of research. As a result of the study, four main thematic groups are distinguished: «geopolitical situation», «environmental issues, problems of ice melting, global warming», «The Arctic as a physical and geographical object», «The Arctic in comparison», indicating the full involvement of the Japanese media in the idea exploration of the Arctic. The studied materials speak of the complex nature of the formation of the image of the Arctic in the Japanese media, which further confirms the increased interest of Japan as one of the main maritime powers in the Arctic region.

The article is devoted to the study of the concept «Bira/river» in the linguistic culture of the Evenks. The aim of the present study is to analyze the verbalization of the concept «Bira/river» in the linguoculture of the Evenks. The linguocultural study of the river conceptualization is carried out on the material of dictionaries, art, folklore and poetic texts, field recordings of authentic texts by native speakers. The author relies on the method of linguocultural research of the concept (V. I. Karasik) and semantic-cognitive description of the concept (I. A. Sternin). At present, the problems of linguocognitive and linguocultural description of the Evenki language are little-studied. The description of the conceptospheres of the disappearing languages of the peoples of the North is a reconstruction of the obsolete semantic features of the consciousness of nomads, reindeer herders, hunters, fishermen. One of the main tasks of modern Evenk linguists is the preservation of the conceptosphere of the Evenki language. This fact explains the relevance of the research. It was concluded that the formation of the concept «Bira/river» took place under the influence of the hunter-nomadic way of life combined with animistic views of nature. The concept «Bira/river» is one of the key concepts in the Evenk linguistic culture. In environmental conditions of taiga the river is a natural reference point, a place of residence of people and dwelling of wild animals. The river is «alive»: it has the «psychological energy» of the musun, so it can allow a safe crossing, give food and water, but sometimes it can also punish.

Folklore, which has developed among the bearers of a particular culture for many centuries, is a source of special information that can be revealed through visual, verbal, object-related codes and attributes of material and spiritual culture. Codes in folklore, even in its small genres, are considered a multi-layered information structure, which must be analyzed in the context of a general cultural background. In the article we investigate a zoomorphic code verbalized in the texts of the Yakut riddles and representing the archaic model of the world. The objectives of the study are the following: selection of riddles with a key zoomorphic code; analysis of metaphorical links between the answer and its figurative description; classification of denotations into thematic groups; interpretation of the results in the context of worldview, mythological and cultural relativism. Thus, at different stages we applied methods of unselected sampling, contextual, semantic, semiotic and interpretive analyses. The objects of the study were lexical units representing zoomorphic images that figuratively describe various objects and phenomena. The main conclusions of the study are that the texts of the Yakut riddles reflect the traditional system of the people’s worldview. A promising area of research is the study of zoomorphic code in the context of the ScythianHun archetypal traditions preserved in the Yakut folklore.