ABSTRACTTamara Lönngren: “ … Useful Guidance from Distant Europe”: The Contribution by the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch to the Designing of the Program for the Collection of Russian Folk Dialects 1896The design of the Dialectological Map of Russian Language in Europe and its further fruitful development were preceded by comprehensive and thorough research in compiling the Program for the Collection of Russian Folk Dialects. As evident from his biographical materials, Academician Aleksej A. Šachmatov prepared a draft of the Program for Northern Russian Dialects in late November – early December 1895. When the work had been completed, it was printed as a manuscript at the printing house of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. The Program was distributed among a circle of specialists, which included a young Norwegian Slavist named Olaf Broch.The current paper is the first comparative textological survey of the Program in its variants from 1895 and 1896. In this survey I analyze all proposals of corrections, modifications, additions etc. made by Broch and identified in the archival materials. Thus I work out in detail what it was that the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch contributed to the extensive and very important project initiated by Aleksej Šachmatov.