On the question of studying the archival funds of Yakut writers: problems of reconstruction and commenting (based on the archival fund of I. D. Vinokurov-Chagylgan)

The article is concerned with certain issues of studying the archive fund of I. D. Vinokurov- Chagylgan (31.07.1914-9.09.1952), one of the prominent representatives of Yakut literature during Soviet period. The archival funds of Yakut writers as a particular historical and cultural phenomenon constitute a valuable research material from the point of view of literary and historical studies, source studies, and archaeography. The thematic justification of the study is based on the revealing and introduction into the scientific use of the new archival materials, and also due to the insufficient research the literary heritage of the well-known writer. The purpose and objectives of the research are focused on the scientific commentaries of the previously published and unpublished literary texts by I. D. Vinokurov (poems) preserved in the manuscript collection of the YSC SB RAS. It is about establishing the specificity and variability of the available archival material (draft and fair autographs, handwritten and typewritten texts), determining the importance and significance of the works in the history of Yakut literature, and further research of the creative heritage. Excluding detailed philological and textological analyses of the works and focusing on commenting the handwritten texts. The textological description of the material is explained with reference to the numbers of collections, aids, holding items that will considerably facilitate the future researcher’s efforts of I. D. Vinokurov’s creative heritage. Certain features of the creative origin of the major poetic texts are established by the research. The fact that for the first time in the history of literary studies of Yakutia scientific commentaries for I. D. Vinokurov’s handwritten texts are presented is the valuable results of the scientific article. The historical and literary, system and typological, textological methods were used. The possible prospects for further elaboration of the issues were updated.

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