MOSCOW, June 25. /TASS/. The Nauka (Science) Publishing House presented an archival study showing Taymyr Peninsula got its name exactly 180 years ago, press service of the Clean Arctic - Vostok-77 expedition told TASS.
"On June 24, the Nauka Publishing House presented an archival study "Annual editions of scientific works by Russian researchers of the early 19th century at the Academic Printing House." Some of them are extremely interesting and even historically important publications. For example, we know now that June 24, 2024 marks 180 years since the Taymyr officially became known as Taymyr," the press service quoted the publishing house's Director Nikolay Fedoseyenkov as saying.
The Academic Printing House (presently - the Nauka Publishing House), published a report by Alexander Middendorf, the North's researcher, where he named the Taymyr Peninsula for the first time. Earlier, the publication's exact date was unknown, but the Academic Printing House recorded the release of scientific works yearbook only on June 11, 1844 (June 24, new style). No other reports or papers were published in 1884.
Middendorf returned from the hardest expedition of 1843 from the peninsula, which he had named Taymyr, to Krasnoyarsk in January 1884 and sent reports to St. Petersburg to have them presented to the scientific community. Researchers say the publication, due to its importance and relevance, could not be postponed to 1845, which means it was published on June 11. During that expedition, Middendorf almost died, because alone, he remained in a snowdrift for more than a week, guarding the expedition's collections for the Academy of Sciences and the Russian Geographical Society. He was waiting for the Nenets on reindeer sleds.
"The Academic Printing House, established in St. Petersburg in 1727, which presently is the Nauka Publishing House, continues to publish scientific articles based on results of field research on the Taymyr. As for 2023, our experts say, Taymyr has been mentioned in more than 140 publications of Russian scientists in journals of the Higher Attestation Commission. This suggests that the Taymyr is among Russia's most explored territories," the publishing house's director added.
The Clean Arctic - Vostok-77 expedition is the largest mission in terms of the number of participants among continental high-latitude scientific expeditions in the entire history of the North's studies. It kicked off from Murmansk in August, 2023, and over one year its 700 participants from more than 20 centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences and from federal universities as well as volunteers of the Russian Geographical Society will conduct 200 studies on routes stretching for 12,000 kilometers. One of the tasks the expedition has is to study and preserve the North's rare languages. TASS is the expedition's general information partner.