Abstract: The impact of Soviet modernization on the lives of Indigenous peoples of the North remains a key topic for researchers. Of particular interest is how these projects transformed the traditional way of life and cultural foundations of Indigenous communities. This article examines the transformation of reindeer herding during the Soviet period and how Soviet policies and large-scale industrial programs reshaped the lives of nomadic communities in the North. Specifically, the study focuses on the history of the loss of reindeer herding in the Sadynsky National Evenki nasleg of the Mirninsky District in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The article examines how reindeer herding was organized in the 1960s and the conditions that herders in the nasleg faced at that time. It also analyzes the social, economic, and other factors that influenced the industry’s decline in the 1970s and investigates the reasons behind the collapse of traditional reindeer herding in the Sadynsky nasleg. This study is based on archival documents from the Sadynsky National Evenki nasleg, held in the Municipal Archive of the Mirninsky District of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Mirny town, as well as the memoirs of local residents and field materials collected by the author between 2019 and 2021. While most studies on nomadic communities focus on those where reindeer herding persists, this article shifts the focus to a community that has completely lost its primary traditional livelihood and for which the revival of reindeer herding is important. The novelty of this study lies in its focus on communities where reindeer herding has been lost, a perspective often overlooked in other research. This research deepens our understanding of the impact of Soviet modernization projects on Indigenous peoples.

Abstract: The protection of paleontological material occupies one of the central places in the field of preservation of objects of historical and cultural heritage. Each country has its own legal traditions and system for the protection of fossil sites on its territory. In this article, attention is paid to the legislative regulation of the search, collection and collecting of paleontological objects in Canada. The experience of this country is of particular interest for Russian practice. Unlike other countries, Russia and Canada are united by the similarity of climate, geography and natural conditions, the presence of permafrost and deposits with fossils. Therefore, the Canadian experience in the protection of paleontological objects deserves separate consideration. В  Based on the analysis of the legislative acts of the provinces and territories of Canada, the article examines the features of legal regulation in this area and the organization of the state system for the protection of fossil remains. The novelty of the work lies in the fact that the focus of the study is on the formation and distribution of ownership rights to fossil objects and fossils. This allowed us to come to the following conclusions: all fossil objects, as a cultural and historical value, are owned by provinces and territories, which prevents their transformation into a commodity unit; the organization of the protection of paleontological objects has a horizontal structure, where the priority is not federal authorities, but provincial and territorial.