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The article objective is studying groups of Old Believers of the Upper Syda river basin (Idrinsky District of Krasnoyarsk Region). It deals with such problems as identifying the place of their exit, the time of appearance in the territory, settlement patterns, the “tolks” and “agreements” of Old Believers, who lived in the rural settlements of the region, description of the worship features, functions of mentors, marriage issues including marriages with “worldly” men, peculiarities of funeral and commemoration culture peculiarities. These aspects are poorly studied, as well as the Old Believers population of Minusinsk region as a whole. The article is based on expedition data of Minusinsk Museum of Local History in 2009 and 2016, most of which are published for the first time. The interview method was used to collect materials, a systematic approach - to analyze the data. Old Believers, natives of Perm-Vyatka Region, settled remote sub-taiga areas in the mid XIX century. They lived in Maly Knyshi, Ekaterinovka, Tobolka, Silkino, Il’inka, Oktyabryovka, Lutag (Cheremshanka), Migna, Kinzel’ village and in taiga borrowings. They were representatives of Belokrinitsky agreement and several tolks of Bespopovtsy. Old Believers led a closed way of life manifested in a number of behavioral and household attitudes; held prayers separately choosing as a place either a house, or natural objects (springs). They buried their dead in a separate cemetery or in a separate half of a regular one. There was a ban on marriages with representatives of other denominations, but the materials of the 2016 expedition showed it was not always observed. The longest preserved traditions were crossing with two fingers and a special attitude to dishes.