SUBARCTIC IN THE SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF ACADEMICIAN VIKTOR BORISOVICH SOCHAVA

The article is devoted to research of Academician V.B. Sochava in subarctic regions of our country. The scientist has devoted many years to the study of the geography of vegetation, formation of landscapes, including a lot of attention paid to the tundra vegetation, he made a great contribution to the development tundrovedeniya. In 1926-1928 Viktor Borisovich took part in the work of the North-Ural expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Uralplana-led B.N. Gorodkov. This expedition explored the highest part of the Ural mountain range and opened its main peak - Mount Narodnaya. The duties of the V.B. Sochava included the study of forests and the neighboring parts of the Circumpolar North Urals. While these forests did not exist almost any data. In 1929 V.B. Sochava was sent Polar Commission of the USSR Academy of Anadyr in the region, where he studied vegetation tundra landscape as the reindeer feed base. In 1932 V.B. Sochava studied Anabar tundra. He created the first guide geobotanical research in the tundra. In 1933-1938 V.B. Sochava edited begun on his initiative, a series of issues "Soviet reindeer" (was published 11 issues), which contained the article, laid the foundation for the development of many scientific questions tundra reindeer. The problems of the Arctic and Subarctic scientist turned in 1960-1970, especially considering the issues of physical and geographical division of the territory and use of its natural potential.