The next volume of the publication (the 1st volume was published in 1989) covers geographical discoveries in the Far East, the main patterns, stages and directions of its economic development, the scale and level of development of productive forces, the specifics of the evolution of social relations. The conditions and types of economic activities of the indigenous peoples of the region are shown, the processes of change in their spiritual and material culture are traced. Particular attention is paid to the study of the socio-economic prerequisites of the Great October Socialist Revolution.