Student Dialectological Expeditions’ Diaries: Peculiarities of Genre and Typology of Texts

Dialectological student practice and expeditions at the Pedagogical Institute of the Vologda State University have being carried out for decades. The article describes a whole number of such expeditions diaries, especially considering the diary genre and developing a typology of texts. Expedition diaries are a valuable material for the regional dialectology and illustrate how the students apply methods the methods of popularization of knowledge about the dissappearing Russian national dialects.