This article is dedicated to complex analysis of underexplored in historiography travelling (route) and topographic descriptions, travel journals, academic papers, maps, geographic, scientific and ethnographic drawings, reports and other papers and materials of students S. P. Krasheninnikov, A. P. Gorlanov, V. A. Tretiakov, F. N. Popov, L. I. Ivanov, translators I. P. Yakhontov and Ya. I. Lindenau, land-surveyors A. D. Krasilnikov, A. Ivanov, P. N. Skobeltsyn, V. A. Shetilov, artists J. Ch. Berckhan, J. W. Lürsenius, J. C. Decker and other representatives of support personnel of academic detachment of the Second Kamchatka expedition. These researches were made by them according to the instructions and tasks of professors G. F. Müller, J. G. Gmelin, L. De L'Isle de la Croyère, adjuncts G. W. Steller and J. E. Fischer on the immense territory of Irkutsk province. It is shown in the article that peripheral support personnel’s works, most of which are introduced into scientific uses, consist of exact information about general, social, political and physical geography, biology, geomorphology and ethnography of indigenous people (the Evenkis, the Buryats, the Yakuts) of Cisbaikalia, Transbaikal, Buryatia, Yakutia which belonged to Irkutsk province of Siberia government at the moment of expedition. The significance of capital provincial Irkutsk city was emphasized as one of the main expedition trailheads which began and ended most of the trips of members of academic detachment around Eastern Siberia. The arguments are mustered which confirm using of materials of representatives of peripheral support personnel about defined problematics as sources for observational monograph of leaders of academic detachment of expedition and also for complied maps of Atlas of the Russian Empire 1745. It was concluded that materials of representatives of peripheral support personnel academic detachment of the Second Kamchatka expedition conduced to data collection about Irkutsk province in Russia and Europe and are valuable sources of history of exploration of this region.

Shipilov Ilya Aleksandrovich, Junior Researcher, Sector of Archeography and Source Studies, Institute of History SB RAS, 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation, tel.: 8(383)330-36-71, e-mail: shipilof@yandex.ru

Shipilov I.A. The Irkutsk Province in Materials Made by the Support Personnel of the Second Kamchatka Expedition. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2019, vol. 28, pp. 61-69. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2019.28.61 (in Russian)

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