Geographical space of G. V. Ksenofontov’s research

The article examines the expedition activity of the famous Yakut philologist, ethnographer Gavril Ksenofontov, who was the first to look from a scientifi c point of view at the origin of the Yakuts – the habitat of the ancestors of the Yakut people. The scientifi c works of G.V. Ksenofontov have been studied in some detail, many scholarly studies of philologists, historians, ethnographers and local historians have been published and do not lose their relevance. However, his research is also in demand in other sciences, in particular, it has a close connection with geography.

The geographic and spatial approaches to the research of the scholar review the routes of his ethnographic expeditions in the aspect of geographical space. The relevance lies in the description of the territories of the ethnographic expeditions of Ksenofontov, which were carried out in 1921–1926, as route fi eld studies in the geographic space of Eastern Siberia.

Object and subject of research: research activity of Ksenofontov and description of his expedition routes along the interfl uve of the Yenisei and Lena Rvers.

Materials and Methods. The review of scientifi c literature allowed to reveal the key issues on the topic of the article: the concept of geographical space is based on the research of E.B. Alaev, Yu.N. Gladkiy, V.D. Sukhorukov [1, 2, 3]; A.I. Dyachkova’s monograph [4, 8] and other sources revealed information about Ksenofontov’s personal, social and scientifi c activities. Ksenofontov’s activities in the East Siberian branch of the Russian Geographic Society and the Yakut Office of the RGS is based on the works of A. Malkova [7], Yu.A. Zulyar L.M. Korytny [10], and others.

 As a result, the author defined the territories and events of the scientifi c expeditionary activity of the scholar as a geographical space. The Ksenofontov’s activity during fi eld expeditions is summarized in 4 tables and a map of the routes of four expeditions with a length of 8,000 km, covering an area of about 2,000,000 square kilometers in the geographic space of Eastern Siberia, was compiled.

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