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The social history of the resource-rich arctic territories of Yakutia has not been studied with much attention; historiography of rural settlements and rural population is especially scarce. It was during the Soviet times that there were cardinal changes in the way of life of arctic rural residents. Therefore, the historical reconstruction of the everyday life of the Socialism era on new documental sources, including the oral history materials, fills a special lacuna in the historiography of the Arctic. Methods of...

This report presents the continuation of our studies on the topic of nomadism in Northern Yakutia, which were conducted with the support of RFBR, project 17-11-14003. The previous work considered the influence of the Soviet state policy on the economy of reindeer herding. Our new work is focused on nomadism as a way of life which has its own intrinsic value. The ethno-cultural phenomenon of nomadic way of life in Yakutia has long been considered as one of the limiting factors of the development of the indigenous p...