Natural resources ethnographic research program of Russians in Siberia

Studies of nature resources have ethnographically specific aspect, based on direct observation, interviews, indepth interviews of representatives of the expert group, the museum and written sources. For the first time the author''s comprehensive ethnographic program of nature resources of Russians in Siberia is presented. The selected themes are geographic characteristics of the terrain, the characteristics of the economic land use, nature protection measures, and the use of natural resources in economic activity. The essential significance is payed to worldview problems. Sub-themes are allocated that are related to agricultural areas, hunting andfishing, charcoal burning, extraction of tar, sulfur mining and oil from coniferous trees, as well as places for grazing, beekeeping, hunting, gathering, provision of hay, timber, firewood, building materials, and birch bark.