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Based on the newly discovered documents from the Russian State Archive of the Navy the paper aims to look more closely at the biography of N.I. Myagkov before he was appointed Head of the Yakutsk Oblast. In Post-Soviet Russia due to the digression from the Marxist-Leninist teaching and use of the new methodological approaches researchers have been paying more attention to the tsarist authorities. One of them was N.I. Myagkov, Head of the Yakutsk Oblast (1826-1831), a man who greatly contributed to the development of his region. He occupies a special place among other Yakutsk regional heads. The study of this historical figure is relevant due to the fact that at the current stage researchers have information only about his activities in Yakutia as well as some brief facts about his early years. The principle of historicism provided the methodological basis for the study. The author used a historical-biographical method (reconstruction of the process of formation and development of N.I.Myagkov’s personality before his activities as Head of the Yakutsk oblast) and a problem-chronological method (studying it in a time sequence). The major finding of the study is that for the first time in historiography it describes in depth the process of formation and development of N.I. Myagkov’s personality before his activities as Head of the Yakutsk oblast. The author also presents new facts about his early period of life (his studies at the Gentry Sea Cadet corps, military service in the Baltic Fleet, work at the Governing Senate and Admiralty Office, appointment as Head of the Yakutsk Oblast).