The Scientific Discovery of the River: the Study of the Konda in the Early 1900s
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.020
Abstract
The study of the Konda River area was initially carried out by European scientists specializing in Finno- Ugricstudiessuchas: A. Alquist, G. Karjalainen, B. Munkachi and others. S. K. Patkanov was the first Russian scientist to visit these places, and his work was continued by the expeditions of the early XX century, which played a key role in the complex geographical and ethnographic study of the Konda.
For the first time, the article analyzes the scientific activities of expeditions to the Konda River based on a wide range of sources and using new methodological tools, including photographing the area, mapping and fixing individual archaeological sites, collecting soil samples, archaeological artifacts, statistical material on the economic activities of the Ostyaks (Khanty), information about the flora and fauna of the region. Based on the study, it is noted that at present these data are of real scientific interest to geographers, Ugric specialists, ethnologists, archaeologists, as well as representatives of the environmental history direction.
About the Author
O. A. Milevsky
Surgut State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Milevsky Oleg Anatolyevich — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Historical Research
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Milevsky O.A. The Scientific Discovery of the River: the Study of the Konda in the Early 1900s. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(3(96)):193-205. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.020
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