Ethnographic researches of geodesist P.N. Skobeltsyn in Siberia and the Far East of Russia in the first half of the XVIII century
The article considers ethnographic researches of geodesist P.N. Skobeltsyn (1702-1762) in Siberia and the Russian Far East in the middle of the XVIII century. It gives the brief characteristic of significance of the second Kamchatka expedition in the development of Russian ethnographic science, the collection of materials on culture of indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East, cross-ethnic relations with neighboring China.