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This article examined the ex-libris of the ethnographer north expert Ilya Samuilovich Gurvich from a personal library, which is stored in the collection of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The most interesting autographs given by famous Yakut and Soviet historians, ethnographers, which were presented to Ilya Samuilovich with great thanks, are also given. This study will reveal the personal history of the ethnographer from the side of book science through his library. The methods of intellectual biography and book science were used.

В докладе представлен анализ жизненного и творческого пути выдающегося российскогоученого, лауреата Государственной премии СССР, доктора исторических наук Ильи Самуиловича Гурви-ча. Отмечено влияние родительской семьи Гурвича на формирование его личности. Анализируется путьстановления И.С. Гурвича как историка и этнографа в годы его учебы на Историческом факультете МГУ.Показана роль замечательного ученого С.А. Токарева в определении круга творческих интересов Гурви-ча. Подробно характеризуются преподавательская и исследовательская деятельность Гурвича в Якутии в1940-ые 1950-ые годы и последующая его работа в течение 36-лет в Москве, в Институте этнографииАН СССР, где И.С. Гурвич с 1965 по 1986 год возглавлял Сектор Крайнего Севера и Сибири. Отмеченбольшой вклад Гурвича в развитие советской школы полевого этнографического сибиреведения и при-кладной этнографии. Анализируется содержание основных научных трудов И.С. Гурвича. Охарактеризо-ваны черты личности ученого., The report presents an analysis of the life and career of a prominent Russian scientist, USSR StatePrize laureate, doctor of historical sciences, Ilya Samuilovich Gurvich. The influence of Gurvich s family on theformation of his personality is noted. The path of formation of I.S. is analyzed as a historian and ethnographer during his studies at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. The role of the remarkable scientist S.A. Tokarev in determining the circle of creative interests of Gurvich is shown. Gurvichs teaching and research activities in Yakutia in the 1940s 1950s and his subsequent work for 36 years in Moscow, at the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where I.S. Gurvich from 1965 to 1986 headed the High North and Siberia Sector is, examined. Gurvichs great contribution to the development of the Soviet school of field ethnographic Siberian studies and applied ethnography is noted. The content of the main scientific works of I.S. Gurvich and the personality traits of the scientist are characterized.

Статья посвящена памяти выдающегося ученого-североведа И.С. Гурвича, внесшегоогромный вклад в изучение Севера и всего арктического пространства. Биография ученого, его научныепринципы и методологические новации рассматриваются в контексте этнографического знания, оказавше-го большое влияние на его судьбу. Автор предстaвляет личные воспоминания через призму современныхподходов антропологической науки. Это рефлексия, направленная на осмысление собственного жизнен-ного пути, осознания его влияния на формирование мировоззрения. Данный подход представляется доста-точно новым для биографического исследования, позволяющим раскрыть индивидуальные черты учено-го, кому Север обусловил ключи для понимания людей разных культур и тонкостей их взаимоотношений., This article is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding scholar, I.S. Gurvich, who made a tremendouscontribution to the study of Northern Siberia and the Arctic. Gurvichs biography, his research principles,and methodological innovations are examined in the context of ethnographic knowledge, which had a big impacton his life. The author offers personal reflections through a prism of contemporary approaches to anthropologicalresearch. By describing their own path in life, the author considers how Gurvich shaped and influenced theirworldview. Such a relatively novel approach to biographical research highlights Gurvichs unique individualtraits, for whom the work in Siberian North was a key to understanding people of different cultures and the intricaciesof their relationships.

In the 18th century, Russian literature was actively exploring folklore genres and characters. Th e bylina was one of the forms of interaction between folklore and literary genres. Some bogatyrs became literary characters. The 18th century epic tradition is known due to the collection of Kirsha Danilov (1804) and the publication of “Byliny v zapisiakh i pereskazakh XVII–XVIII vekov” (Bylinas in the Records and Retellings of the 17th–18th centuries) edited by A. M. Astakhova (1960). This fact gives an opportunity for raising the issue of the correlation of written and printed texts with the oral tradition recorded by collectors and folklorists. The article presents a comparative analysis of oral and written prosaic adaptations of the “Chernigov” version of the plot “Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber” that remained similar to the oral tradition. Handwritten and printed publications of the records of the 18th century bylinas show that there was an active appropriation of epic plots, characters, themes, topics, formulas and concepts in Russian literature. This became apparent in the genre transformations of the bylina, development of its genre content in short novels, folk tales, fairy tales, operas and poems as well as in written and oral prosaic retellings and adaptations.