As part of the research project “The Legacy of Ilyas Zhansugurov in the Development of the Humanities: in the Context of the 21st Century”, implemented with grant funding from the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the leading researcher of the project, Mamilya Dzhakypbekova, went on a business trip to Almaty from October 3 to 13, 2024 and visited the National Library and the Central State Archives. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the theoretical research of domestic and foreign scientists related to ethnography, in order to study the ethnographic nature of the works of I. Zhansugurov, as well as to supplement the theoretical part of the monograph written on this topic.