Alexander Dunin-Gorkavich – member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society

The subject of the research is the scientific activity of the Siberian researcher A. A. Dunin-Gorkavich, a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. For 30 years, he headed the Samara Forestry of the Tobolsk province, ending his career as an official for special assignments in the Main Directorate of State Property. He was a member of many Russian scientific communities. Dunin-Gorkavich is the author of works on ethnography, geography, economics, statistics, agriculture and shipping in Northwestern Siberia. In 1926, he was recognized by the USSR Academy of Sciences as a scientist of all-Union significance. The biographical method is used to describe, reconstruct, and analyze the circumstances of life and performance. A set of methods was used to analyze the sources, including historical-geographical, system-structural analysis, and others. There are no works in Russian historiography devoted to his cooperation with scientific societies, in particular, with the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. The purpose of this study is to fill in the gap in the biography of the scientist, based on archival documents published and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The first successful experience of Dunin-Gorkavich's cooperation with the scientific society was formed during the preparation and conduct of the northern expeditions at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries. In 1903, A.A. Dunin–Gorkavich was elected a member of the society. The article provides information about little-known expeditions to the lower reaches of the Ob River in 1908-1909, the results of which were highly appreciated by the government. Dunin-Gorkavich was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th degree. The society's assistance in studying the northern regions of the Tobolsk province played a positive role both in scientific activity and in the career growth of the official.