title: ЛЮДИ ТОРСКОЙ СТЕПИ
abstract: The article is devoted to the people, who in early 1990-s rendered an invaluable help, not only with their knowledge as informants but also with their human emotional attitude to the members of an academic expedition who came from Moscow to study their village Tory (Tunka district of the Republic of Buriatia). That study was a part of an interdisciplinary and an international joint project under the title “A Portrait of an Oriental Village”. Five villages in different regions of the Russian Fede
journal: Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences