The article is devoted to the analysis of the protection of the primordial habitat, traditional way of life, economic activity and crafts of the indigenous peoples of the North on the example of Yakutia.The right of indigenous small-numbered peoples to access land, natural and aquatic biological resources, and traditional use of natural resources are fundamental in the system of the constitutional and legal status of these peoples. The special place of the indigenous small-numbered peoples among the indigenous peoples of the country is due to the geographical and climatic features of their original habitat in the Arctic. It is these features that have led to the fact that the traditional types of economic activity and the basis of life of these peoples are reindeer husbandry, hunting and fishing.Giving the territories of traditional nature use of the peoples of the North the status of specially protected territories increases their human, environmental value and implies the development of mechanisms of legal protection - regulatory legal acts of land use, restricting or prohibiting types of activities that are incompatible with the main purpose of these lands, namely traditional nature use.

The article examines the attitude of the Evens living in the Arctic zone of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic towards territories of traditional nature management of the indigenous peoples of the North, as a legal means of protecting the rights of the Even population. The empirical basis for this study was the result of a sociological survey of the Evens of the Ust- Yansky and Eveno-Bytantaysky Regions of Yakutia (2017-2020). We highlight topical socio- economic problems that concern the Evens in the Arctic zone of Yakutia. We also analyze the results of the sociological survey on the negative dynamics of Ust-Yan and Eveno-Bytantaysky region indigenous inhabitants’ confidence index regarding in the functioning of territories of traditional nature management, a decrease in confidence in state bodies of different levels of government in this matter, and the opinions of the Evens themselves about the difficulties of implementing legislation on territories of traditional nature management. We present conclusions about the Evens’ opinion on the effectiveness of territories of traditional nature use as a legal means of protecting their rights, and the need for effective state legal support for the preservation and development of the traditional way of life of the Evens.

The Evenk anthroponymic system proper is associated with the Evenki worldview, with the cultural picture of the world and is reconstructed in the toponymy of a particular region. The Evenks of South Yakutia, like Buryatia, still adhere to traditional beliefs, among which shamanism, totemism, animism, hunting cults and cults of local host spirits should be noted. There is also a widespread cult of fire and hearth and home, reverence for the forces of nature, individual animals, etc. The main task of the research is to restore the semantic, etymological meaning of hydronyms of Evenk origin. Linguistic research of the Evenk hydronyms requires not so much information from the geography, history and social environment of the Evenks, as knowledge of the minority marginal language of the autochthonous people of Siberia. The practical result of linguistic research should be an etymological study of toponymic vocabulary of Evenk origin as a process of elemination of different types of lacunae and the creation of dictionaries and reference books for normative word use in the process of everyday communication of the Evenks.

The article is devoted to the study of expressive means in the ethnographic cinema, which is a kind of a documentary. Music and sounds are some of the tools that distinguish a documentary from a feature film. Music and sounds in documentaries not only complement the visual part, but also play a special role. The aim of the research is to reveal the functioning of the sound in a documentary film. In the course of the research, the multifunctionality of the expressive means in the author’s documentary cinematography has been revealed. Atmospheric sounds have been classified as natural and man-made. These sounds are represented as Yakut onomatopoeic words. Off-screen and source ethnic music enables to enhance the perception of the visual image and reveals such features of the North as a place of cold, silent and at the same time enriched with a variety of original cultures, emotions associated with adherence to homeland, a place of unity of man and nature and a place of nomadic peoples’ cultures. Specially written original music gives a peculiar emotional coloring, conveys the author’s attitude to characters, phenomena, events.

The article aims to identify the specifics of the information microdiscourse of the event macrodiscourse based on the analysis of an English newspaper article devoted to the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on BP’s work in the Arctic. The author defines such concepts as an event situation, event discourse, information discourse as a genre type of event discourse. The algorithm for analyzing a news text is proposed, including the definition of its content-thematic structure, as well as the features of its lexical content and the use of grammatical forms. Markers of the newspaper text’s belonging to one or another genre and thematic microdiscourse of the event macrodiscourse are revealed. At the end of the article a number of conclusions are drawn regarding the main features of news texts of the event discourse, their focus on the information function and the neutral-objective style of presenting information.

This article examines the image of the homeland in the poetry of S. Moskvitin, draws a parallel with the work of Russian classics of the twentieth century. The authors made an attempt to analyze the image of the homeland created by modern poets, to reveal their attitude to existing realities. The work used comparative, formal research methods. The theoretical basis of the article was the works of leading Russian specialists in the field of literary criticism: M.B. Loskutnikova, M.M. Bakhtin, as well as Bakhor T.A., Lobareva V.S., Chernovaya A.E.

It is dedicated to the formation of the anthroponymic system of Russian language in the territory of Yakutia in the 17th-18th centuries from 20th. It presents the results of studying the development of the local anthroponymic system in the conditions of a bilingual community. To achieve the set goal, popular masculine names, existed in the 17th-18th centuries in the territory of Yakut Land, have been determined through the continuous sampling and statistical methods; the most frequent masculine names, used in the city of Yakutsk in the late 20th century, have been identified; comparative analysis with the data of the 17th-18th centuries has been conducted, as well as a sociolinguistic survey, a dynamics of development of personal names used in Yakutia is shown. It was concluded that the 17th century’s onomasticon was mainly formed by the calendar Christian names, which had gradually superseded Yakut national names of the indigenous population in the official documents. The anthroponymic system of Yakutia did not undergo any major transformation in the 17th-20th centuries: calendar Christian names, forming the basis of the all-Russian onomasticon, were preferred for naming Russian and Yakut male population. The peculiarity of the anthroponymic system of Yakutia in the late 20th-ealy 21st centuries is a large-scale implementation of Yakut national names; almost forgotten national names are returned to a widespread use; Yakut spelling of the names is preferred.