LIFE CYCLE RITUALS OF THE OLD BELIEVERS OF TUVA (ON THE FIELD MATERIALS OF 1990)

The article presents the materials of the folklore and ethnographic ex-pedition of East Siberian state institute of culture conducted in 1990 in the Republic of Tuva. The study was devoted to the ritual and holiday calendar of the year round and life cycle rituals of the population of Uzhep village of the Kaa-Khemsky kozhun of the Republic of Tuva represented by the Russian Old Believers of the chapel consent. It was established that the calendar had been kept from 1 September, when the time counting throughout the year began. The Christian holidays of the annual cycle were also held according to this cal-endar. The descriptions of the life cycle rituals are given as baptism, wedding and funeral and memorial ones.