Статья посвящена реконструкции интеллектуальной биографии выдающегося ученого-северо-веда В.Н. Васильева (1877‒1931), уроженца Амгинского селения Якутской области, оставившего после себя богатое научное наследие, рассредоточенное в различных архивах и музеях страны. Научная новизна работы заключается в историческом осмыслении и интерпретации его богатого экспедиционного наследия в аспекте междисциплинарной методологии новой биографической истории. Впервые в рамках проекта увидела свет фундаментальная авторская монография В.Н. Васильева "Тунгусы Алдано-Майского и Аяно-Охотского районов" (2024), написанная им во время работы Тунгусского этнографического подотряда Комиссии по изучению производительных сил Якутской АССР (далее ‒ КЯР) (1926‒1928 гг.).
This article is devoted to the reconstruction of the intellectual biography of the outstanding northern scientist V.N. Vasiliev (1877–1931), a native of the Amga village of the Yakut region, who left behind a rich scientific heritage dispersed in various archives and museums of our country. The scientific novelty of the research of the work lies in the historical understanding and interpretation of his rich expeditionary heritage within the framework of an innovative interdisciplinary methodology of a new biographical history, and is due to the introduction into scientific circulation of previously unexplored scientific heritage and new archival data on V.N. Vasiliev (correspondence of the Commission for the Study of the Productive Forces of Yakutia with the Government of Yakutia, ego-documents: travel diaries, expedition notes as a personal the narrative of the included observation). The author develops an autobiographical chronotope of the life path of Viktor Nikolaevich Vasiliev, identifies the main periods refl ected in the author’s landscape (the motive of bondage, the motive of sacrifice, etc.). Based on the methodology of the “new biographical history” (social personal history), we trace the model of the formation of V.N. Vasiliev’s individual scientific strategy during the construction of early Soviet society. For the first time within the framework of the project, the fundamental author’s monograph by V.N. Vasiliev “Tungus of the Aldan-Maiya and Ayan-Okhotsky districts” with a volume of about 1,500 pp. (2024), written by him within the Tungus ethnographic suborder of the Commission for the Study of the Productive Forces of Yakutia (1926–1928), was published.