Keyword: «development of minerals»

One of the priority positions in the socio-economic literature of the period under consideration is occupied by the formation and development of the mining industry in Yakutia. In this article the historiographical analysis of different kinds of researches of modern Russian historians in the context of research of regional features of mining industry development in 1920-1930 in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (YASSR) is carried out. In the studies of scientists it is emphasized that the development of the coal industry in Yakutia became the basis for the development of river and sea transport, power engineering, road construction and communication. This industry played an important role in the industrialization of the republic and contributed to its economic development.