Keyword: «humanitarian geography»

The Relevance of the topic is related to new methodological approaches in the study of modern culture of Yakutia in the early XXI century. The authors tried to apply the method of an interdisciplinary approach in the study of the figurative geography of Yakutia beginning of the XX Century for example, the project "Figurative map of the route Latinskog ulus". The main concept of figurative (imaginative) geography is the geniuses of place, the poetics of space. City and village in the twentieth Century are different environments of modern man. In the first environment, creative culture is born, and in the second – traditional culture is preserved longer. Transformation of traditional culture in the beginning. The twentieth century in the city of Yakutsk led to the birth of a new creative type of culture, and at the end of the twentieth century, in the post-Soviet space, a figurative geography of a specific region is formed, pulling together the space of the landscape and cultural heritage monuments, which is clearly seen on the material of the Tattinsky ulus.

The article considers the geographical image of ice on the sea as an essential part of the water area of the regional picture of the world of the northern Russian territories. One of the blocks of the regional picture of the world model is presented on the basis of the text analysis of the book by F.P. Litke, where the results of his direct observations made within the expedition of 1821 on the way to Novaya Zemlya were recorded. The features of the situational block reflecting the movement of two objects – sea vessel brig and ice – are revealed; its complex organization, conditions that allow to identify particular situations consisting of individual episodes are also exposed. The criteria are determined that permit to recognize the movement of the described objects as a real geographical image having structural and qualitative characteristic features.