YURII ALEXANDROVICH NOVIKOV’S FIELD WORK IN KARELIA

Abstract

Collecting folklore was one of the important scholarly activities of the famous researcher Yurii Alexandrovich Novikov. In 1956, he made his first expedition to Zaonezhie and other regions of Karelia as a member of a group of students of Moscow State University. In 1969, Novikov and B. P. Kerbelite examined the eastern part of the Pudozh region of Karelia. Based on the materials preserved in the Scientific Archive of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, this article presents the results of these collecting activities.