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The term Paleo-Asiatic peoples (Paleoasiatic) was proposed by the Russian scientist L. I. Strencom in the middle of the 19th century to refer to a number of indigenous peoples of the North and North-East Siberia with the archaic features of culture, characteristic of the Neolithic stage of development. The basis for selection of these people in a special group was that their languages are not connected with large language families of Northern Asia. This is the reason that they are preserved in the place names of t...

The northeast of Russia by in large and Yakutia in particular, is almost undeveloped tourist region of the world. However the region has the considerable tourist and recreational potential allow considering him as perspective. Tourist and recreational division into zones act as scientific base of territorial planning and management of a tourist complex. Now division into zones of this part practically of Russia isn't developed. The option of tourist and recreational division into districts of the Republic of Sakha...

The article describes the main spatial properties of traditional cultural landscape of the Evenks in South Yakutia. The study is based on the of field research conducted on key areas of Evenks in South Yakutia – interviews, representation modelling, observations – and the use of Sentinel 2A remote sensing for mapping and contextualising the geographic environment of living places. The characteristic features of the territory of traditional use of natural resources is described; more especially the relations betwee...

This paper presents the preliminary results of scientific survey on unique social phenomenon – the nomadic way of life of reindeer herders in Yakutia. Main trends of nomadic way of life’ changes in Yakutia were outlined on base of collected archival and published sources, statistical data and field materials. Firstly, the situation with conceptual approaches on nomadic way of life was analyzed. Authors recognize that from the very beginning of the Russian Arctic exploration the lifestyle of nomads was in the spotl...