Abstract
Altai Russians have been the object of systematic study by Siberian ethnographers since 1977, the year that saw the establishment and first expedition of the Altai Ethnographic Team of the Institute of History, Philosophy and Philology of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. For 8 years, under the leadership of L.M. Rusakova, the team put together ethnographic collections for the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of Siberia and the Far East of the IHPP SB RAS. The article reconstructs the personnel of the team, the research area, the process of expedition preparation and organization, the peculiarities of field communication, the main objectives, collecting and recording ethnographic material methods, the collector individual style. The primary sources include field diaries and the team member interviews.
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