Ekaterina Yuklyaevskikh, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: e_chekunkova@mail.ru.
The paper provides a brief analysis of the documents presented in the catalogue of manuscripts and woodblock sourceson Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands from the collection of the Hokkaido University Library. Among the catalogue's extensive list of items, there are materials that are devoted to the topic of population movement that took place in the northern regions of Japan between the last third of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The research identifies the main types of sources on the subject, describes the circumstances and reasons. During the analysis, three most important blocks of sources were identified, and a separate part of work is devoted to each of them. The first part characterizes the documents on the history of internal migration of the Japanese population from the central regions of the country to Hokkaido. It also analyses the influence of this process on the indigenous peoples of the island and the change of the number of inhabitants. The second and third parts examine the sources describing the traumatizing events of the resettlement of the Sakhalin Ainu to Hokkaido and the Ainu from the Northern Kuril Islands to the island of Shikotan after signing the Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Russia and Japan in 1875. The paper presents the issues related to the resettlement, which are reflected in the travelling notes, reports and memoirs of political figures who witnessed it. The expeditions and inspection trips of Japanese officials who explored the Kuril Islands during the Meiji period are described.
Keywords: Ainu, indigenous people, Japanese Empire, migration processes, Hokkaido, Kuril Islands

Lilia Kalmina, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia. E-mail: kalminal@gmail.com.
The article under review happens to be the logical continuation of publications about the principles of Siberian regional press key historical periods coverage of Asian East at the edge of 19th-20th centuries. The Far East, being the centre of all major powers interest, naturally became the constant attention subject of the Siberian press. In order to illustrate this idea, the author chose Irkutsk newspaper "The Eastern Review", characterized with high informative content and professional quality. The author dwells upon events on the eve of Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905. Based on the analysis of newspaper materials, the following conclusions have been made: first, when covering the increasing conflict, the paper took the objective position, giving the floor to all the subjects involved. Second, willing to provide information efficiency, the newspaper rarely gave place to analytical comments: they quickly got old due to the rapid events current. Third, highlighting the discussions among prominent Japanese politicians, the paper ignored such in Russian political spheres. Home mass-media informed only about Russian diplomacy achievements and displayed general public spirit in society, Japanese press, available through digests, never hid feelings dominated in the country's Big Politics. Information from various sources gave ability to an intelligent reader to make an impression about political regional forces, though hope for peaceful alignment on the conflict of the side of the paper still remained till the last day.
Keywords: newspaper "The Eastern Review", Asian East, Russia, Japan, China, Manchurian question, Korean question, Anglo-Japanese treaty, Japanese Press.

Elena Chernolutskaya, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia. E-mail: chvalery@mail.ru.
The paper shows that during the period of Russian market transformations, the formation of economic interaction between the Kuril regions and the Japanese border area was based on the access to the raw materials of the sea, which are the core of the economies of neighboring local communities. The author reveals the divergent positions of the leadership of the Russian Federation and Japan in relation to the Kuril-Japanese cooperation as a reflection of their policy on the "territorial issue". It was determined that Moscow's ideas about creating a zone of joint economic activity turned out to be illusory, but the decisive influence was exerted by the position of Tokyo, which considered any activity under Russian laws in the "disputed" territory unacceptable. The Japanese leadership conditionally divided the Kuril sub-region into two parts, one of which (the North Kuril District) was declared "permitted" for formalized relations, and in the second (the Kuril and South Kuril Districts) any activity of foreign business was subject to obstruction. The Russian-Japanese Fisheries Agreement (1998) did not bring anything constructive to this process but created a situation of legal competition between fishermen of the two countries. The North Kuril district fell out of the Japanese policy of restrictions. However, the activity of establishing administrative and economic ties between this area and the Nemuro district (Hokkaido), which unfolded in the early 1990s, soon subsided due to the lack of interstate agreements on fisheries. As a result, not a single Russian- Japanese joint venture or other forms of cooperation with Japanese partners in the coastal economy were registered in the Kuril districts, and the established model of economic interaction was reduced to legal and illegal supplies of raw fish and seafood to Japan.
Keywords: Kuril Islands, Japan, Hokkaido, cross-border cooperation, fisheries, market transformations.

Vitaly Elizariev, Russian Geographical Society, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. E-mail: vn_sakh@mail.ru.
This paper examines the unpublished information from the materials of the case "The minutes of interrogation of servants about V. Poyarkov's campaign along the Shilka and Zeya rivers" (hereinafter referred to as the minutes of interrogation) stored in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA). Its absence in scientific discourse provoked a lot of contradictory versions among historians. Meanwhile, the minutes of interrogation allow to clarify the peculiarities and sequence of actions of V.D. Poyarkov during the tragic winter in 1643-1644; to find out the real losses of the detachment; to get rid of the contradictions of various versions in previously published works on this topic. Archival documents help the author to assert the legitimacy of a new view of the goals and tasks set in the order confirming that it was the "silver expedition", to deepen the understanding of the causes of the tragedy of the detachment in the winter of 1643-1644 and to indirectly confirm the role of the shaman Tomkaney in the organization of the campaigns of I.Y. Moskvitin and V.D. Poyarkov. The proposed paper describes only a part of the events of V.D. Poyarkov's campaign relating only to the goals and objectives set for the "silver expedition" and explains the reasons for the refusal to continue the route according to the order. Further, V.D. Poyarkov carried out the historical campaign along the Amur River with the way out through its mouth and the return to Yakutsk through the wintering place of I.Y. Moskvitin beyond the order.
Keywords: V.D. Poyarkov, Zeya River, Prince Doptoul, Shilka River.

Aysen Vasilev, Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia. E-mail: aysen_vasilev@mail.ru.
Based on historical events between the late 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the paper for the first time recreates a full biography of the naval officer and administrator Mikhail Ivanovich Minitsky, who held leadership positions for a long time in the northeastern outskirts of the Russian Empire - the Okhotsk-Kamchatka Territory (1808-1816) and the Yakutsk Region (1816-1821), including parallel leadership (1816-1818). The paper examines the origin, family life, stages of the hero's career growth (in the naval and civil service) - from the army rank of lieutenant to the naval rear admiral, including his service in the British Navy. The paper also highlights his activity as the head of the regions of North-East Siberia aimed at solving socio-economic problems, considers the reasons for his dismissal from the civil service in the Yakutsk Region and examines the last years of his life in St. Petersburg. Through the lens of M.I. Minitsky's biography, the paper shows the characteristics of the Siberian provincial bureaucracy of the first quarter of the 19th century, the personnel policy of the Russian government, the specifics of governing adjacent regions on the north-eastern borders of the state, as well as, based on the example of the Russian-Japanese conflict of 1811-1813, known as the "Golovnin incident", the diplomatic role of local administrators in the conditions of remoteness and some isolation of outlying territories from the political centers of the Russian Empire.
Keywords: M.I. Minitsky, biography, naval officer, regional head, official, civil service, naval service, North Pacific Ocean, Okhotsk, Yakutsk Region, Russian Empire.

Valeriy Tokmakov, Amur State Medical Academy, Blagoveshchensk, Russia. E-mail: tokmakov_valeriyy@rambler.ru.
The paper is devoted to the now little-known scientist and teacher V.P. Malyshev (1898-1977), who made a great contribution to the development of historical science in the Amur region, as well as to the training of teaching staff at the Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical Institute (BSPI). The professional activity of Vasily Prokofievich was not limited to narrow regional boundaries, his scientific and pedagogical work was directly related to the Tashauz, Blagoveshchensk and Krasnodar Pedagogical Institutes. V.P. Malyshev worked at BSPI for a short but bright period from 1949 to 1960. He became the first Doctor of Historical Sciences in the history of the university when in 1955 he defended a dissertation "The struggle of workers and peasants for the establishment of Soviet power on the Amur in 1917-1922". Vasily Prokofievich brought up a pleiad of historians and researchers: N.A. Shindyalov, V.M. Stupnikov, E.P. Sychevsky, B.S. Sapunov, A.A. Sidorenko and others. As Head of the Department of History, he delved into the most diverse aspects of the training of teaching staff, attended the classes of young colleagues, led organizational events with schoolteachers, etc. The multifaceted destiny of V.P. Malyshev is genetically connected with the Far East of Russia: he was born in the Nerchinsk district of the Trans-Baikal region, fought in the battles for Volochaevka in 1922, later, graduated from several higher educational institutions and mastered a number of foreign languages, was on intelligence missions in China and Mongolia. It is no coincidence that Blagoveshchensk in the Amur Region was an important stage of the professor's career. When he was leaving the city, he transferred a collection of documents of the head of the department to the regional archive, which nowadays allow to recreate a wide panorama of life of the young Blagoveshchensk Pedagogical Institute in the 1950s.
Keywords: historian, professor, head of department, historical science, Soviet historiography, regional historiography, intelligence officer, Civil War, teacher education, biography, Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical Institute, V.P. Malyshev.

Alexander Prasol, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia. E-mail: aleprasol@yandex.ru.
The Oninki military chronicle ("The Chronicle of Onin") is the main source of information about the largest military conflict of medieval Japan. The war, which lasted from 1467 to 1477, was a turning point in the system of military rule. It dealt a crushing blow to the Ashikaga regime and set in motion an uncontrollable mechanism of internecine warfare throughout the country. The chronicle describes the events that took place in the central part of the country several years before and during the war. The author of the chronicle is unknown, but judging by the anti-war orientation of the text, it is most likely a monk or a low-ranking aristocrat, closely associated with the Buddhist clergy. In favor of this assumption is the obvious adherence to Confucian values to which the author appeals throughout the text. The detailed description of events indicates that the text was written soon after the end of the war, perhaps, even in the 1470s. The reliability of the information is generally commendable although today's knowledge of this period is much more complete. Structurally, the chronicle consists of three scrolls. The first scroll describes the events leading up to the outbreak of war and the first battle in the capital between the contenders for the supremacy of the Hatakeyama family. Hatakeyama Masanaga and his patron Hosokawa Katsumoto, who had been defeated in this battle, retaliated and began full-scale fighting in the capital. The battles lasted from late May to mid-October 1467. These events make up the content of the second scroll. The third scroll, the translation of which is presented in this article, describes the widespread fighting in the provinces adjacent to the capital over the following seven years, the devastating consequences of the war for the capital, and - very briefly - the circumstances of its cessation. The description and Russian translation of the Oninki are published in our country for the first time. The translation is provided with detailed commentary and illustrations to facilitate the perception of medieval realities. The paper aims to expand the collection of Japanese medieval texts translated into Russian.
Keywords: Muromachi period, Onin war, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, period of internecine wars.

AlexandРµr Alepko, Khabarovsk State Institute of Culture, Khabarovsk, Russia. Р•-mail: alexandr.alepko@yandex.ru.
The paper analyzes how Philippine scientists study the historical and cultural problems of internal Muslim separatism associated, first of all, with resolving the issue of state unity of the modern Philippines. The author assesses two main approaches that have developed regarding this issue in modern Philippine historiography: the first is pro-Western liberal, and the second is within the framework of the idea of national-state unity. It is shown that the majority of Philippine historians thought that the penetration of Islam into the Philippine Islands began in the 14th century together with the so-called "the third wave of Malay migration", i.e. at least 130 years before F. Magellan's expedition. The range of problems of Philippine historiography also includes the assessment of the results of the activities of the Spanish conquistadors in the Philippines. In particular, the authoritative historian C. Majul speaks about the negative consequences of the Spanish conquest for the natives who practiced Islam. Most historians think that the spread of Islam in the Philippine Islands was stopped by the Spaniards, who converted the Tagalogs, Ilocos and Visayas, who made up the majority of the indigenous population, to Catholicism. According to Philippine historiography, this factor subsequently predetermined Muslim separatism in the Philippines. Some Philippine historians come to the conclusion that in the twentieth century, American colonial authorities tried to destroy the daily traditional life of Muslim peoples and in order to cause interfaith conflicts resettled Christian Filipinos from the north to the southern regions of the island of Mindanao. All this, according to the representatives of Philippine historical science, largely predetermined modern armed uprisings and acts of terrorism by Muslim separatists in the country.
Keywords: archipelago, jihad, Islam, Lanao, Maguindanao, Moros, separatists, Sultan, Sulu, Christian north.

Viktor Krivonogov, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. E-mail: victor950@yandex.ru.
The paper presents the results of the ethnographic expeditions to the Khabarovsk and PrimoryeTerritories as well as the Sakhalin Region in 2021-2023. Ethno-linguistic processes in eight ethnic groups were analyzed: Nivkh, Ulchi, Uilta, Orochi, Negidals, Nanai, Udege and Taz. The research involved mass surveys of indigenous peoples using a representative sample thataccurately reflected ethno-linguistic processes. The survey was conducted on families. Adults were interviewed during a direct conversation while a questionnaire for children was compiled in a shortened version according to the information from parents. For the most numerous Nanai, a 5 percent sample was developed, for Nivkhs and Ulchi - a 25 percent sample. The survey was conductedin the main ethnic territory. Among the other ethnic groups (Uilta, Orochi, Negidal, Udege and Taz), 100% of the inhabitants of the villages of their maximum concentration were interviewed. It was revealed that language assimilation already completedin the middle-aged and young groups. Even the majority of old people also switched to Russian. The proportion of those who spoke the language of their own nationality approached or reached zero. The attempts to teach children their mother tongue and to preserve it through the education system didn't lead to notable results. It is possible to conclude that the process of linguistic assimilation in these ethnic groups is irreversible.
Keywords: Nivkh, Ulchi, Uilta, Orochi, Negidals, Nanais, Udege, Taz, ethno-linguistic processes, language assimilation.

Tatiana Krayushkina, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia. E-mail: krayushkina@ihaefe.ru.
Based on the material of the Russian-language male poetry of the first quarter of the 21st century, the paper studies the features of the functioning of quotations from the folk song "Transvaal" or allusions to it. The research material includes 15 poems written between 2003 and 2023. The poems included in the first group, published between 2003 and 2018, refer to the Second Anglo-Boer War, or their reference to a specific war is not indicated. A characteristic feature of the poems of this group is the understanding of the symbol of Transvaal, which differs from the poetry of the 20th century: the reverse side of the liberation war is presented, the individual is revealed and the social is leveled. The second group includes poems that describe the armed conflict caused by the coup d'Г©tat and the beginning of Euromaidan, as well as about the SMO (the poems were written in 2014-2023). The poems are connected with tragic events that returned to the land where the Russian language is spoken. It is concluded that quoting and using allusions to "Transvaal" in the male poetry of the first quarter of the 21st century has not lost its popularity. In our time, as in the male poetry of the 20th century, the folk song remains a significant element of the cultural code of the Russian people, being a symbol of the liberation war, less often - transmitting the peculiarities of the existence of the song in the present or the past. The poet acts as a translator of public consciousness, borrows certain components of the cultural code developed by predecessors, and supplements it according to the current situation.
Keywords: folklorism, folklorization, II Anglo-Boer War, G. Galina "Boer and His Sons", folk song "Transvaal", Russian song folklore, contemporary Russian literature, Russian poetry of the first quarter of the 21st century, poetry of the SMO, poetry of the liberation movement.