In general, the translations of the Yakut-Sakha intelligentsia by Russian writers of the classical period influenced the formation of modern written literature in the geography of Yakutia. After such works, Sakha writers and poets created works that they fed with their own oral culture. The process of influence in the region is not one-sided. Russian political exiles or foreign prisoners of war who arrived in the region also created works influenced by the oral culture and narrative tradition in the region and ensured the recognition of the Sakha Turks and their culture by the Russian people and therefore other peoples. While Vaclav Leopold Seroshevsky, who lived in Yakutsk as a prisoner of war for more than ten years, touched upon the daily life of the Sakha people in his work “Yakut Tales”, the Russian writer and political exile Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko always paid special attention to the character of the Sakha Turk in his stories. The basis for such studies was the Decembrist uprising in Russia in December 1825. After the suppression of this rebellion, in which mainly officers of the nobility took part, 116 rebel officers were exiled to Siberia. Among these officers was Alexander Alekseevich Bestuev-Marlinsky. Marlinsky was exiled to Yakutia with 10 friends. In addition to their military duties, the exiled officers were well-educated people of that time, who knew several foreign languages and were trained not only in military service, but also in other specialties. These officers, who traveled to different cities of Siberia, especially Yakutsk, gave detailed information about these new lands on which they lived, and about the peoples, large and small, who inhabited these lands, in correspondence with their families and friends in Moscow and St. Petersburg. While some of the officers were interested in indigenous education, some of them were doing research that could be a source for the science of ethnography. For example, Gavril Stepanovich Batenkov studied the rivers of Yakutia, at the same time preparing projects for a more equitable management of these lands. Brother A. Bestuzhev- Marlinsky, Nikolai was exiled to the Siberian lands, like his older brother. Here Nikolai Bestuzhev collected Buryat tales and songs. Another brother, Mikhail, published studies on the belief system of the Buryat people. All these studies and the fact that participants in the December uprising lived in Siberia not only provided a comprehensive study of the Siberian lands, but also contributed to a wider acquaintance of Siberia with Russia. Alexander Alekseevich Bestuev-Marlinsky, who spent years of exile in Yakutsk, was also among the Decembrists who were influenced by Sakha-Turkic culture and the narrative tradition in this geography. The main feature that distinguishes him from his friends, with whom he suffered the same fate, is that he is a Russian poet and writer who experienced the influence of Sakha – Turkic culture in his literary works. Researchers define Marlinsky as the first writer who placed an element of Sakha-Turkic culture in Russian literature. The article will consider the life contribution of Alexander Alekseevich Bestuev-Marlinsky to creativity under the influence of the culture of the region and the city of Yakutsk, as well as the poem "Saatyr", which he wrote under the influence of this culture.