The Stove in the Material Culture of the Alar Buryats

a sacral center of the dwelling, which correlates with the values of spiritual culture. A great contribution of Russian material culture is also highlighted, which has had a fundamental influence on the improvement of living conditions. As convincing arguments, the author adduces linguistic borrowings from the Russian language and brings similarities with Turkic terms and documents words unknown to dialectologists and linguists specializing in Mongolian until now. On the basis of these materials, it is concluded that the material culture of the Buryats in this area is autochthonous.