Description of Mongolian speaking peoples folktales kept in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of Russian Academy of Science
(53rd Annual Meeting of the PIAC, St. Petersburg 2010)
The report deals with the folktales of Mongolian speaking peoples which are kept in the Manuscript collection and Archives of Orientalists at the IOM RAS. These materials are characterized by the informant’s nationality, time, place or type of their registration. They are grouped according to the Mongolian folktales system by Tserensodnom and Gadamba, which is used by mongolists, and are classified according to the type of their narrative structure.