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The state of modern Mongolian studies is characterized by the expansion of theoretical and empirical base of scientific research, increased interest in the study of verbal and written monuments, the creation of large fundamental works, and intensive scientific contacts between the Mongolian centers of China and Russia. This article presents some of the results of field research obtained during an international scientific expedition to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, carried out in the summer of 2012 by research workers of the Kalmyk Institute of Human Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support of the Russian Foundation for Humanities and teachers of Xinjiang Pedagogical University. The collections of manuscripts and xylographs in the Oirat language, which were discovered in the Ili-Kazakh autonomous region of the SUAR of the PR China are of particular interest.The largest existing manuscript collection is owned by Kharin Togtokh, a resident of the village of Gedeng. His collection consists of 74 manuscripts, most of which are rewritten by him personally. The materials of the expedition of 2012 also present unique samples of the poetic folklore of the Oirat-Mongols of Xinjiang. A full description of manuscripts, xylographs, samples of the poetic folklore of the Oirat Mongols of Xinjiang identified during the expeditionary study and their introduction into scientific sphere will expand the understanding of verbal and written heritage of the Mongolian peoples. |
