Comprehensive Research Expedition. Materials of Kalmykia Detachment from Archives of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (RAS): Reports, Photographs, 1959-1963
Goals . The article introduces some new data on the history of 1959- 1963 ethnographic research among rural Kalmyk population of the restored Kalmyk ASSR. The research was conducted by Kalmykia detachment of the Comprehensive Research Expedition at the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnography (USSR Academy of Sciences; currently - Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS). Results . The paper is the first to review efforts of academic ethnographers to have explored culture and household life of Kalmyks that had just returned to the restored autonomy of theirs after the unlawful Siberian deportation of 1943-1957. The work publishes preliminary reports and unique photographs from archives of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (RAS).