The article provides an overview of archival documents reflecting the features of various practices of preserving and reviving the Evenk language in the northern regions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (based on the analysis of a sample of documents on education and enlightenment from the Evenk archive in the village of Tura). The relevance of the study is associated with the need to obtain the most complete information that reveals the dynamics of cultural and pedagogical practices to preserve the northern language as the core of the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Far North. Analysis of archival documents obtained in the course of field research conducted on the territory of Evenkia in 2018 made it possible not only to reveal the basic trends in the processes of preserving the Evenk language, their transformation in the period from the 1930s. (years of formation of national districts) until the beginning of the 2000s, but also to determine the essence of the problem of preserving the disappearing language of the Evenk ethnocultural group at the present time. The results of field studies were processed, the interpretation of the data obtained was made. A critical analysis of existing scientific research was carried out, the conclusions of researchers related to solving the problem of preserving and reviving the Evenk language were summarized. Of particular importance is the publication of a summary of a large number of archival documents from the 1930s. Until now.