Abstract

The travel diaries of the chairman of the Army Economical Board of the Siberian Cossack Host and the chairman of the West Siberian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Georgy Efremovich Katanaev, contains valuable ethnographic information about the population of the Siberian Cossack lines, which is only partially put in the scientific circulation. In this article, ethnographic notes by G. E. Katanaev, which were done in 1893 during a duty trip in the Kokchetav district of Aqmola Region. The source is interesting not only for information about the ethnic composition of the Siberian Cossack Host and the ethnocultural processes in it, but also for the ideas of the diary`s author about ethnicity and its transformation possibilities.

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