Field trips of the 1940s in Yakutia: collectors and performers in the village Russkoje Ust'e
The article considers the features of fixing of the Russian folklore tradition in the Northeast of Yakutia - in the village of Russkoje Ust'e on the Indigirka during its active existing in the 1940s. The author focises on identifying the features of recording texts in dynamics when two field trips were made with a difference in five years. The relevance of article is caused by the fact that it is possible to track consecutive activities for collecting folklore by S. I. Bolo and members of an etnografic-linguistic field trip of T. A. Shub in Russkoje Ust'e in Yakutia. The article aims at identifying the features of documenting the Russian folklore by S. I. Bolo in 1941 and the field trip under the leadership of T. A. Shub in 1946. One of tasks of the research is studying the interaction of the Russian folklore and other language and folklore on the example of some fairy tales and bylinas, where some local features appeared during the long period of time in the village the Russkoje Ust'e. The descriptive, comparative and textual methods are applied. The article considers approaches to documenting texts by the collectors, main performers of the Russian folklore in the village are specified. The repertoire which is written down after main storytellers is described. The works of folklore which did not enter the collection Folklore of the Russkoje Ust'e are named. In addition, the features appearing in the performances of folklore texts by father S. P. Kiselyov and his son E. S. Kiselyov are specified. The fairy tale Ivashko-Pepolushko, one notices that the beginning is borrowed from the Yakut songs. Thus, an experience of documenying folklore during the work of two field trips is described. It becomes clear that the main collectors of folklore spoke both Russian and Yakut, which was good in terms of reflecting phonetic features of performers` pronunciation in writing. The nature of connections existing within one village is specified. One needs a further careful study of methods of collecting folklore during work of two field trips, as well as an analysis of the collected Russian folklore texts from northeast of Yakutia.