LAND RESOURCES OF YAKUTIA'S AGRICULTURE IN THE LAST DECADE OF SOCIALISM: PECULIARITIES OF LAND ACCOUNTING OF STATE FARMS IN THE ARCTIC AND NORTHERN REGIONS

The article shows the peculiarities of land resources utilization in the traditional economy of the indigenous population of Yakutia in the last decade of the Soviet period with a separate delineation of the state of the land balance and lands used in agriculture in 1990-1991. Including on the basis of archival data on land resources of state farms of the studied 15 arctic and northern regions, peculiarities of their accounting, preliminary results of statistical analysis of land resources of these large farms are obtained. The author introduces into scientific turnover new factual materials on land resources of separate state farms for the last Soviet 1991, in particular on their agricultural lands, reindeer and horse pastures.