POLES AS RESEARCHERS AND CO-FOUNDERS OF CULTURE IN SIBERIA AND COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA (BASED ON SELECTED MEMOIR LITERATURE EXAMPLES)
The author considers issues arisen in memoire literature written by Poles who were invol-untary deported in Siberia for an active participation in rebels against Russian autocracy in the 19th and the 20th centuries. During the Russian Empire history, near a half of a million Poles were exiled in Siberian territories. Many of deportees continued to pursue their professions and being good-educated persons with advances scientific interests they contributed in development of cultural life of these huge, lowly populated and backward in civilizational aspect lands. Deported Poles were writing personal notes that can be combined in corpus of memoir and autobiographical literature of various genres: memoires, diaries, notes, letters, etc. The author using some of these materials gives a review of Poles’ contribution to development of research in various scientific disciplines, cultural activity in Siberia and counties of Central Asia. The author separates all of these memoirists on persons who were deported in Siberia for participation in the Bar Confederation (1768-1772), for participation in Tadeusz Kościuszko Uprising, (1794), for participa-tion in the November Uprising (also known as the Polish-Russian War, 1830-1831), for participation in the January Uprising (1863) and on radical antimonarchic socialists at the turn of the 19th and 20th cen-turies, especially for participation in the Russian revolution (190-1907).