INTERDISTSIPLINARNYE SURPRISES. NOTES ABOUT THE BOOK: TCHAIKOVSKY JU.V. "THE CAPES OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN REMIND. HISTORICAL SKETCHES AND THE STORY" (Association of scientific editions КМК. М, 2015. - 400 p.)
The Article represents author's reflexions concerning one new book devoted to Russian discoveries in Arctic regions and researches of Arctic regions in XVII - XIX centuries. The author calls in question the events connected with the facts of early penetrations of Russian hunters and Cossacks at coast of Arctic ocean and their campaigns to the east along coast and an exit to Pacific ocean. Materials to the biography of admiral A.V.Kolchak, Russian Navy officer, the polar researcher and the politician, included in the book, are known to readers under the extensive literature published last 25 years. In other cases, especially in descriptions of finds of the subjects belonging polar seamen of first half of a XVII-th century at east coast of Taimyr peninsula, and in attempt to reconsider a route of expedition of Simeon Dezhnev round Chukotka peninsula the author offers a number of fantastic guesses and the assumptions eliminating the possibilities of such campaigns for Russians. Assumptions of the author, however, in at least in the latter case contradict the ethnographic data, presented in well-known known historical sources. If to address to a problem of patriotism in priorities of the geographical discoveries, mentioned by the author the academician the German G.Miller who did not doubt a reality of campaigns of S.Dezhnev appears the main patriot.