About new written resources on traditional culture (with reference to the Russian population of Gorny Altai)

Today, when the oldest representatives of our generation leave this world, finding new written sources to conduct further research of the traditional culture and ethnic history has even a greater value. In the period since 2007 till 2014 the author has found a number of new written works, part of which has been published. We try to show ways and methods for finding new sources in field work of a researcher and describe their meaning in the study of the history and culture of a region. The work on these tasks, as we believe, may be found useful for other researchers, who work out questionnaires and methods of collecting field materials. As a result our work facilitates finding new resources. The author has registered the following written works on the traditional culture: - memoir notes of T. A. Shevelyova, a resident of Ilyinka Village, written in a few school notebooks and laced together as one set; - a book with chastushki, which is two exercise books, written by S. D. Dementyeva from Cherga Village; - memory notes on separate sheets of paper, written by I. L. Nohrin, a farmer from Choya Village; born in 1900; - notes about medicine by Z. I. Kolpakova from Ilyinka Village that have been found in the form of fragments of texts in a school note book and on sheets of paper. This work can be divided into 2 parts: texts with spells and texts with recipes of herbal medicinal preparations, ointments and other traditional ways for treatment; - a complex of manuscripts by T. F. Bochkaryov from Multa Village in five note books: Manuscript 1 and 2 tell a family legend about I. Bochkaryov, a traveler and an Old Believer, and about Old Believers in Gorny Altai, who moved to another settlement; Manuscript 3 and 4 contain notes done by some Old Believers about their life in the period from 1929 to 1946; - small-volumed notes, for example, about rules of a burial procedure of Old Believers, written by N. L. Kazanina from Choya Village and found as part of burial clothing . As a conclusion it is worth noting that new written sources have been found by means of these ways: - an interviewee himself or herself shared his or her notes for the study of regional history and culture; - one of the residents in a village told us about a person who kept memoir notes, manuscripts, who collects folklore materials; - in the course of other aspects of traditional culture; due to favorable relations between an researcher and an informant; as a result of people's understanding of sincere research work and professionalism of an interviewer.

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