Universal History Annotation << Back TO THE ISSUE OF SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPOSITION OF THE SIMBIRSK OLD BELIEVERS-VILLAGERS A.A. Vinogradov The article is devoted to the social-professional problems of ethnography, ethnology and history on the example of studying the Old Believers-villagers of Simbirsk province of Russia at the end of the 19th century according to the results of the First National census of 1897. The author highlights such concepts as «Old Believers», «family», «mode of life», «profession», «literacy», showing the connection between them. The author shows how important knowledge about the everyday culture of our ancestors for the patriotic education of the younger generation. Keywords: Russia, Simbirsk province, Old Believers, professions, education, family. DOI: 10.25791/vseist.01.2020.1095 Pp. 37-43.