INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARCTIC: THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF THE REGION (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF YAKUTIA)

The process of industrial exploration of the Arctic territories of Yakutia in the 1920s is analyzed, when one of the priorities in the Yakut ASSR was the development of approaches and directions for the development of industry, including its northern outskirts. The conditions under which the issues of restoring the previously existing industrial exploration and mining of deposits were resolved, and at the same time long-term plans were developed to create a mining industry in the republic. It is established that the government of Yakutia in the 1920s. sent significant financial and material resources to the organization of scientific research, the formation of an industrial management structure, the definition of basic approaches to solving issues of industrial development of the northern territories of the republic. It is concluded that during the period under review, conditions were prepared for the industrial development of the Arctic regions of the republic. The problem of industrial development of the eastern territories of Russia is quite fully covered in Russian historiography, the main principles and directions for its solution at different stages of history are determined, the issues of modeling economic development are considered, and the historical experience of developing new, often extreme for life, regions of Russia is summarized. Despite the presence in modern historiography of sufficiently deep studies of the problem, many aspects of the history of the industrial development of the Arctic, primarily at the regional level, remain poorly understood today. In this regard, this article attempts to highlight the most important events that characterize the historical experience of the industrial development of the Arctic, undertaken in the 1920s. leadership of the Yakut ASSR. The source base of the study was the documents of the RGAE and the National Archives of the RS (Y).