The article is devoted to Savva Kokiev’s activities in ethnographic Ossetian studies. His creative collaboration with prominent Russian scientist V.F. Miller in research of the Ossetian language, ethnography and folklore is considered. Kokiev’s participation in preparing Miller’s Ossetian-Russian-German dictionary (compiling Ossetian-Russian glossary, organizing the board of authors and coordinating data collecting for the dictionary) is shown. A two-week scientific expedition of V.F. Miller to Ossetia in summer of 1880 for collecting the folklore for the first part of his book “Ossetian etudes” is described. The assistance S. Kokiev provided in accompanying the expedition, in searching informants who knew oral folklore, in producing records in the Digor dialect new for the academician is being analyzed. Particular emphasis is placed on the inclusion of folklore and ethnographic materials provided by Kokiev into "Ossetian etudes" by V.F. Miller. The information Kokiev supplied to M.M. Kovalevsky during a scientific expedition in 1883 on social and family life of Ossetians is being investigated. Valuable materials on customary law, family community, kinship system, and terms denoting varying degrees of kinship among the Ossetians are highlighted, as well as the use of Kokiev’s field data and published materials in the fundamental work of Kovalevsky “Modern custom and the ancient law”. Kokiev’s article “Notes on the life of Ossetians”, published in 1885 in the first edition of “Collection of materials on the ethnography, published at the Dashkovsky ethnographic museum” is subjected to analysis. Articles, written by Kokiev “Bride price among Ossetians” and “Funeral rites of Ossetians”, published in the newspaper of “Terek statements”, are being considered. Assistance S.V. Kokiev provided to V.F. Miller in collecting materials on the grammar of the Ossetic language, onomastics of Ossetians and other peoples of the North Caucasus is being assessed. The letters Kokiev wrote to Miller are reviewed. All this allows us to conclude that the contribution of S. Kokiev into ethnographic Ossetic studies was very significant.

Keywords: S.V.  Kokiev, ethnography, social and family life, material culture, customary law, religious beliefs, onomastics.

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