Ethnographic notes of a participant of E. N. Nosov’s expeditions. The year of 1995

This paper is dedicated to ethnographic investigations of 1995 conducted during the author’s par- ticipation in the archaeological investigations at Ryurik Gorodishche and in the course of archaeological surveys along the route of the archaeological party to sites near Lake Syezzheye of the Khvoyninsky district of Novgorod oblast. The evidence collected covers some aspects of the everyday life, occupations, holidays, beliefs, notions about nature and archaeological monuments among the old-timers from a number of villages of the Novgorod region over the period from the beginning of the 20th century until 1995. The public inquiries were conducted in the villages of Gorodishche, Spas- Nereditsy, Knyazheye Selo, Molodilno.