The paper discusses users’ activities in the period 2011-2022, mostly types of searches, in an electronic encyclopaedia on saints. The e-product contains information in Bulgarian on orthodox church ...calendar and texts dedicated to saints as preserved in medieval Slavonic manuscripts and in popular Bulgarian culture (as represented in fieldwork interviews). The most frequently used options are “view object” and “view date”. Most often articles on popular saints amongst Bulgarians were read, such as St. Basil the Great, St. Kliment of Ohrid, St. George, and St. Petka of Tarnovo. Less often are searches by combined parameters and an increase of their frequency is observable in 2019-2021.
The role of G. V. Ksenofontov in collecting the Russian folklore in Yakutia is considered. The question is raised about the connection of recording of folklore texts, which were carried out by G. V. ...Ksenofontov. A. A. Savvin, S. I. Bolo, T. A. Shub. Collecting activities of Ksenofontov in the Western-Kangalassky ulus in the 1920-ies is described. The main attention is paid to the personality of Ksenofontov in the period of his formation as a researcher, the sources of his scientific interests are studied. His methods of recording and working with the material under study are characterized. The novelty of research is seen in the fact that for the first time the scientific approach of G. V. Ksenofontov to the collected material is studied taking into account the possible connection with the principles of research activity of A. A. Savvin and S. I. Bolo. The influence of his approaches and methods on the formation of the scientific tradition of fixating the Yakut and Russian materials of folklore and ethnographic sources is estimated. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that at the present stage it becomes important to determine the sequence of experience accumulation and the creation of programs for the folklore collecting, as well as to evaluate the contribution of G. V. Ksenofontov in this activity.
In this paper the oral literature (folklore texts) of Tungusic languages will be analysed mainly on the basis of the author’s field materials. The following problems will be considered: § 2) the ...variety of stories (folktales, l egends, and myths, § 3) the characters in the stories, § 4) the rhetoric,§ 5) the similarities between Tungusic folktales and neighbors’(Ainu andJapanese).
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