Geographer-teacher Vasily Gluzdovsky and his program on motherland studies of the Far East

Abstract

The publication is dedicated to the geographer and educator Vasily Efimovich Gluzdovsky (1877– 1934), the author of the first comprehensive monographs on the Far East region – “Primorsko- Amur Outskirts” (1914), “Far Eastern Region” (1925, 1927) and “Soviet Sakhalin” (1926). Gluzdovsky distinguished himself as an ethnographer and archaeologist, doing research at the Amur Region Research Society (ARRS), where he held the full-time position of a museum conservator (1907–1908) and printed the first catalog of museum exhibits. The scientist also proved himself in the field of education, having developed the first program for teaching local history (homeland studies) in the schools of Vladivostok. The article uses documents and publications of the scientist, identified in the library of the ARRS and the Central Scientific Library of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.