Gulyaev Stepan

(1805 - 1888). Upon completion of the course in Barnaul Mountain College served first in St. Petersburg, then in Barnaul. Since 30-ies he was already beginning to gather material for the characterization of people's life in the Altai and in general in Siberia. In 1835, in "Notes of the Fatherland" had placed his article on "Siberian circular songs", in 1845. - In the "Academic Gazette, his first major work:" Altai Masons, dedicated to the Old Believers and sectarians, fleeing religious persecution in the south-east of the Altai. This was followed by "Notes on the Irtysh and the countries of irrigated" (Bulletin of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 5, and 6 books, 1851); 1852 - 1853. in "Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences" published recorded them in the Altai epic, subsequently published as a separate edition. Total Gulyaev was published in the periodical publications of 49 articles, some of which - extensive monographs. Studying the nature and customs, walk in the same time producing surveys the history and archeology. From the Altai work led him to the Irkutsk province, on the Lena River ( "On cretinism and zobah Lena", "Bulletin of the Geographical Society, 1857), in Simbirsk (" On the shales in the province of Simbirsk "," In Proceedings. Econ. Obshch. ", 1855), at the extreme north-east Siberia (" On the silver mines in the Okhotsk region). He was engaged in collecting a variety of collections and manuscripts which are passed on to the learned societies and Public Library. He was able to bring to the scientific work and others, and for many years was the center Gulyaev, to which all converge in the study of the Altai. Many Gulyaev been done to improve the culture of the region: it required the development of skin coat manufacture in Barnaul, crafts of weaving hats and manufacture of wicker furniture, fruit gardening. - Wed. I.YA. Slovtsov "Stepan Gulyaev (Omsk, 1891, edition of the Russian Geographic Society); P.A. Golubev, Stepan Gulyaev "(Collection of Altai, Tomsk, 1890).