On the Scientiﬁc Expedition in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the PRC (chronicle and preliminary results)
The article is a summary of the scientiﬁc expedition on the project «Linguistic and ethno-demographic features of the Oirats (Kalmyks) of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region of the PRC (from July 6 to August 13, 2012). The author describes the aims and objectives of the expedition, the participants, the preliminary results of the systematization and processing of ﬁ eld data.