On some peculiarities of L. Ya. Sternberg's scholarly views

L. Ya. Sternberg is an outstanding ethnographer who devoted himself to the study of the Nivkhs, Tungus-Manchus, Ainu, he is the founder of Leningrad Ethnographic School, Deputy Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, and one of the founders of Ethnographic Department of Geographic Institute at Leningrad University. The article deals with the biography, career and scholarly views of L. Ya. Sternberg. We have considered the possibilities of the biographical method, based on biography, and events that influenced the scholarly views of the scientist.