FROM THE HISTORY OF OLONKHO RECORDINGS AND THE TASKS OF THE YAKUT FOLKLORISTS
The article is devoted to the history of recording the Yakut epos olonkho. Fixation of olonkho using technical aids represents the live performance of the narrators. Yakut folkloristics, from the first attempts to record olonkho on the phonograph up to the modern audiovisual means, accumulated considerable experience to fix the live voices of the bearers and keepers of the epic texts which opens the possibility to study the olonkhosut art of narration.