DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TOURISM ON PLATO PUTORANA
The Putorana Plateau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a strong tourist attraction. The number of tourist visits has a steady upward trend. At the same time, there is a problem of further organization of tourist and recreational activities there, due to various factors, including considerable remoteness and low accessibility. The purpose of this article is, based on the principles of sustainable development, to clarify the content of the concept of “scientific expeditionary tourism”, to determine the forms and goals of its development. We believe that scientific and expedition tourism, including those organized on an amateur basis and with the use of sports and health tourism technologies, can become the main form of development of hard-to-reach territories of the tourist and recreational space of Russia. Scientific expedition tourism is a promising form of tourist development of hard-to-reach territories, as well as amater scientific researches and popularizing research activities. The article analyzes the content of the concept of “scientific expedition tourism”, highlights its goals and products. Scientific goals are formulated by the subjects of scientific and educational activities. Identification, confirmation, description, establishment, familiarization, discovery, approbation of objects of scientific activity can be defined as goals. Recreational goals, as a rule, are formulated by the participants of the expedition and therefore differ in variety, although they can also be grouped. The most significant recreational goals are rest, getting impressions, achieving sports results, and restoring health. The implementation of social and humanitarian goals allows the members of the expedition to feel their involvement in the discovery, to realize the need for patronage (by sponsoring the expedition and scientific research). The purpose of some expeditions may also be to draw public attention to a problem. The resource basis for the development of scientific expedition tourism is unique, typical phenomena and objects, “riddles”, areas of inaccessibility. The concentration of resources on a certain territory allows the formation of a variety of products and a comprehensive development of the tourist area. One of such tourist areas with a high potential for the development of scientific expeditionary tourism is the Putorana plateau.The authors present the results of expeditionary research carried out by a group of amateur tourists from the Kirov region, as part of a trip along the Yenisei River and along the Putorana Plateau in August 2019. In addition to tourist and recreational purposes, research tasks were also solved within the framework of the trip. Our expedition lasted 31 days, of which 24 days of sailing. The length of the active part of the route was 2,422 km. Line of the route: Kirov - Lesosibirsk - Yenisei - Kureika - Svetlogorsk - Kureiskoye reservoir - Dyupkun lake - Talnikovy waterfall source - Kureyka river - Yenisei - Dudinka - Norilsk - Novosibirsk - Kirov. The depth of Lake Dupkun was measured, an attempt to determine the height of the Talnikov Waterfall was made, a new tourist route was tested and a tourist and recreational description of the territory was carried out. According to the results of measurements, the maximum depth of Lake Dupkun was 110 meters. It was not possible to accurately measure the height of the Talnikov waterfall. The collected material allows us to judge the great prospects for the development of scientific expedition tourism on the Putorana Plateau. A completed tourist route can become a popular form of recreation for Amateur travelers in both the European and Asian parts of Russia. The study of tourist sites on the Putorana plateau and along the Yenisei River, determination of their physical parameters, assessment of aesthetic appeal, calculation of the recreational capacity of resources, development of tourist products, their promotion and implementation, and ultimately the formation of a sustainable regional tourist and recreational system - this is the list of the main tasks and directions for further research, including in the form of scientific expedition tourism.