Biography of Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev

Vladimir Arsenyev “When my dream came true, and I went to the Far East, my heart died in my chest with joy ... I fell into the country's primitive and virgin, with other nature and other population. Looking back, in the past, I see that I was accompanied by a happy star ... ”V. Arseniev Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev was born on September 10 in St. Petersburg in a large family.

Together with the brothers and sisters, he read out by Jules Verne’s novels, admired the discoverers of Przhevalsky, Nevelsky, Miklouho-Maclay. At the end of the year of the Infantry School, Vladimir Arsenyev went to the place of service-to the Polish city of Lomzha, in the suburbs of which he began to conduct the first research. During his studies, Junker Arseniev became interested in the works of his teacher Mikhail Efimovich Grum-Grzhimailo.

The famous traveler drew the attention of a young man to the eastern outskirts of Russia, almost not investigated at that time. In January, Vladimir Arsenyev began to achieve the transfer to one of the infantry units of the Russian troops located in Port Arthur on the Kwantun Peninsula or in the part of the Amur Military District. In May, one of his petitions was satisfied, and already in the rank of lieutenant he was transferred to the 1st Vladivostok Fortress Infantry Regiment.

On the way to the place of service, Lieutenant Arseniev managed to prove himself as a bold, competent officer. In Blagoveshchensk, he was mobilized to protect the city during the uprising of the Hiotuyan, for which he received his first award - the medal “For a trip to China”. In the photo: V. Arsenyev-a cadet of the infantry and junker school in Vladivostok Arsenyev arrived on August 5.

In the fortresses, he was given to subordination of the shooters of the equestrian-hunting team, with whom he passed the entire southeastern part of the Ussuri Territory, collecting data on the population and the natural-climatic features of the region. The Russo-Japanese War-made adjustments to Arsenyev’s research plans. He actually headed the military reconnaissance of the garrison, conducting reconnaissance with the arrows of reconnaissance in places of possible landing of an enemy landing.

During the war years with Japan, Vladimir Klavdievich was promoted to headquarters captain and awarded the orders of St. Anne of the IV degree, St. Anna of the III degree, St. Stanislav III degree. The expeditions undertaken by Vladimir Arsenyev and his satellites in the years were directly related to the study of little-known territories in the area of ​​the Sikhote-Alin ridge and the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, as well as the security problem of the eastern outskirts of the border of Russia.

Arseniev and his companions crossed Sikhote-Alin 20 times from west to east and back and gathered the richest material about the climate, flora and fauna of the region, about its population and prospects for further colonization. Arsenyev with a group of excursionists in the vicinity of Vladivostok following the results of these expeditions Arsenyev compiled a “brief military-statistical outline of the Ussuri Territory”-the first comprehensive summary of data on the nature and people of the region.

The book was printed in the year "For official use" in Khabarovsk in the printing house of the Amur Governor General. In the year, Vladimir Klavdievich was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir of the III degree, which he was very valuable, since he received this award not only as an officer, but also as a traveler and researcher, and this meant recognition of his merits in studying the region.

In the years, when the detachment under the leadership of Arsenyev was called up for the fight against the Hunhuz-bandits who felt full masters in the Russian-Chinese borderlands. When performing a secret task, Vladimir Klavdievich still found time and opportunities for research: he conducted a census of the local population, collected collections on archeology and ethnography, and even made a scientific discovery - designated the line of the biogeographic boundary of the Okhotsk and Manchu Flora.

Subsequently, Professor A. Kurentsov called it the Arseniev line. According to the results of these expeditions, Vladimir Arseniev wrote the book “Chinese in the Ussuri Territory”, published in Khabarovsk in the year. During this period, he gave a lot of effort and energy to the development of the Khabarovsk Museum of Local Lore, the director of which on a public basis worked for a year.

Arsenyev organized public lectures-excursions in the museum, established the work of the correspondent network, and compiled a single catalog of museum collections. In years, he worked in the Museum of the Society for the Study of the Amur Territory in Vladivostok, where he led the ethnographic department, simultaneously engaged in collections in archeology and other disciplines.

Arsenyev in the center with Udege hunters in the year Arseniev is elected professor at the Department of Local Lore and Ethnography of the Vladivostok Pedagogical Institute, and also teaches ethnography at the university, gives lectures at the Marine College. Continued Vladimir Klavdievich and expeditionary activity. He investigated the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Commander Islands, headed a large expedition on the route Sovetskaya Haban - Khabarovsk Arseniev did not manage to process and publish all the materials he collected during the expeditions.

Arseniev left a rich heritage. He described the relief of Primorye, for the first time thoroughly studied the Sikhote-Alin mining system.He prepared work on the life and morals of the indigenous population of Primorye. He owns the discovery of the origins of the largest rivers of the region. The result of numerous expeditions of Vladimir Klavdievich was the opening of more archaeological monuments in the south of the Far East.

In his books, the writer Arseniev combined in his books a description of the territory with reflections on a person, culture and civilization. The foundation of his work was the materials of travel, and the diaries of observations gave artistic works persuasiveness and reliability. The book “In the Ussuri Territory” was published, in - “Dersu Uzala”. The heroes of his books attract with their stamina and liveliness, respect for nature and the ability to live in harmony with it.

Arsenyev and Dersu ped to the expedition of the year. The scientific and literary heritage of V. Arseniev has not lost its relevance today; Scientists and researchers of many countries turn to him, finding valuable data on the nature, history and ethnography of the Far East. The memory of Arseniev was immortalized in the names of 33 geographical facilities, settlements, streets, scientific institutions and educational institutions.

From G. Arseniev with P. Merschin and A. Litvinov during the shooting of the film “Visiting the Forest People of the Udegeans”, one of the museum branches was opened in the house where Vladimir Klavdievich spent the last years of his life. The street on which the house-museum of V. Arsenyev stands also bears his name. Arsenyev’s name is named after the city in the Far East, the glacier on the northern slope of the Avachin hill.

The image of the main Arsenyev works is immortalized - Dersu Uzal. Arseniev and his famous conductor were made of great fame by the film adaptation of the novel “Dersu Uzala”, made by the outstanding Japanese director Akira Kurosava, together with the Mosfilm film studio and the Oscar in the year in the nomination “Best Film in a Foreign Language”. In November, the nationwide contest “Great Names of Russia” was completed to assign the names of famous compatriots to airports.

Through the popular vote of the Air Harbor of Primorye, the name of Vladimir Arseniev was assigned. State united.