The article is devoted to the description of the fund of the Ida Steppe Duma, stored in the Museum of the History of Buryatia named after M. N. Khangalov. The fund was considered completely lost, therefore it was not used by researchers. The Ida Steppe Duma Foundation is represented by 12 cases, the rest of the materials have been irretrievably lost. The fund stores office documents in decrees, reports, statements, orders, personal and formulary lists, correspondence, etc. from 1787 to the end of the 19th century, from the opening of the Steppe Office to the closing of the Duma. In materials of a thought orders of higher are given organizations, reports of the founders, which contain information about the development of the economy, primarily agriculture, crop structure, number of yards, name lists, population for all 29 clans of the Ida department, statements, explanations of the founders on the waste of money from the Duma and other materials related to economic activities of the Ida Steppe Duma. The Foundation has information on the guard duty at the Tunkinsky distance by the Ida Buryats, the correspondence of the ancestors about the abolition of this duty. According to the materials of the fund, one can trace the appointment, then the election of the main secret. Part materials of the Duma published in the collection of documents «Ida Buryats». The article also describes the personal archive of the main Taisha of the Ida Steppe Duma I. I. Pirozhkov published by G. N. Rumyantsev discovered by him in the funds of the specified museum. Subsequently, the fund was transferred for permanent storage to the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia.

Dameshek Lev Mikhailovich, Doctor of Sciences (History), Head, Department of History of Russia, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: levdameshek@gmail.com 

Sanzhieva Tatiana Efremovna, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Buryat State University named after Dorzhi Banzarov, 24a, Smolin st., Ulan-Ude, 670000, Russian Federation, e-mail: sanj_te@mail.ru

Dameshek L.M., Sanzhieva T.E. Materials of the Idinsky Steppe Duma in the Funds of the Museum of the History of Buryatia named after M.N. Khangalov. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2020, vol. 34, pp. 91-99. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2020.34.91 (in Russian)

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