The Soviet-Mongolian Comprehensive History and Culture Research Expedition: 1970 — Season Two. Diary of the Ethnography Research Team (Continuance: September 16 – September 28, 1970)

Abstract

The aim of the present article is to introduce the new data on the history of ethnographic studies of Mongolian peoples. In 2018–2019, Mongolian Studies published abstracts from the diary of the ethnographical team of the Soviet-Mongolian Complex Expedition for Historical-Cultural Studies; the publications deal with the year 1969, the first season of the Expeditions’ work in Mongolia. The 2020 article in Mongolian Studies includes the materials of the diary that deal with the next field season in Mongolia in 1970. This article continues the series of ethnographical diary publications, focusing on meetings with scholars from different countries in Ulan-Bator and the Expedition’s work in the central aimaks of Mongolia.

Keywords

• mongolia
• expedition for historical-cultural studies
• the somons of saikhan
• bulgan
• baian-agt
• amarbaiasgalant monastery
• darkhan
• soviet avtobaza
• the best kumis
• tserensodnom’s practical talents