Karabakh folklore in SMOMPK collectıon

Abstract

From 1881 to 1929 the collection “Collection of materials on the description of the territories and peoples of the Caucasus” in Russian was published with various studies, information on folklore and ethnography, history and language, religious views, everyday life of all the inhabitants of the region, regardless of their large and small size, ethnic groups living in the Caucasus, Transcaucasia under tsarist Russia, including folklore texts translated into Russian, as well as in the language of the original. By the way, Azerbaijani folklore, ethnography and other materials have been widely represented in the collection of SMOMPK. In the article the folklore materials about Karabakh in SMOMPK collection are studied.