Open AccessA. E. Fersman on the Kola Peninsula: expedition work and formation of the historical and ethnographic profile of the region.
Author(s) -
Olga V. Zmeyeva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
trudy kolʹskogo naučnogo centra ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2307-5252
DOI - 10.37614/2307-5252.2020.6.19.002
Subject(s) - kola peninsula , ethnography , peninsula , memoir , arctic , population , industrialisation , geography , archaeology , history , geology , sociology , art history , demography , political science , geochemistry , oceanography , law
A. E. Fersman —the legendary organizer and leader of most of the Khibiny expeditions in the 1920s. In regional history, the name of the academician who was engaged in research on the Kola Peninsula for two decades continues to be associated with the industrial industrialization of the Central part of the Kola Peninsula, the creation and development of a stationary branch of the Academy of Sciences in the Arctic, and the formation of new professional communities. The article deals with some issues of creating a historical image of the region in the so-called "pre-urban" or expedition period of geological and mineralogical study of the Khibiny mountain range. The sources were popular scientific works of academician A. E. Fersman, devoted to the results of the Khibiny discoveries in the 1920s and 1930s, magazine and newspaper publications, memoirs of Khibiny researchers about the expedition work on the Kola Peninsula. The system of representations of participants of geological expeditions about natural and social spaces of Khibiny, ways of interaction of research teams with local population, and also influence of geological discoveries on change of historical and ethnographic profile of the region are considered.