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The article analyzes the expedition organized by Evgeny Andreevich Ashchepkov, well-known specialist in folk architecture, to study the Russian population architecture in Kamenskoe Priobye of the Altai Region. The authors state that it has never been a research object, moreover there is unreliable information in scientific literature. The study’s main sources are the documents of E.A. Ashchepkov’s personal archive in Novosibirsk Regional State Archive. The research relevance is determined by the fact that the field materials collected by E.A. Ashchepkov are little used in his summarizing monograph on Altai, and are still not in demand by other investigators of old-timer culture of the Russian population. Therefore, the research objectives and tasks are focused on revealing the terms and routes of expedition; analyzing the sources kept in Novosibirsk Regional State Archive to determine their potential for studying traditional culture of Russian Siberians. Using reconstruction and biographical methods, the authors managed to identify the terms of expedition - August of 1944, and reconstruct the route of his field research. The article describes the main ways of recording the information (black and white pencil sketching with further drawing in color, photographic recording, charting). E.A. Ashchepkov’s professionalism as an architect contributed to fixing multicultural information, not limited by architecture only. That, on the one hand, makes this information available to different social-humanitarian specialists, especially ethnographers, art historians and cultural studies scholars; on the other hand, due to notes left under the materials, it is possible to suppose that the geographical frames of his «personal» field voyages were much wider and included other regions of Altai Region and the Republic of Altai. The authors conclude that the revealed unpublished expedition materials make it possible to better understand both folk architecture, and other household traditions of old-time residents of forest steppe in Kamenskoe Priobie as well. The expedition materials concerning the territories bordering on the Altai Region allow reaching the comparative level of local variants of Russian Siberians’ culture under different geographical and ethnic-cultural conditions.