Altai ditties: collecting, publications, harmonic performers(last third of XX — first twenty years of XXI centuries)

In this article, for the first time, the issue of conducting research activities on collecting ditties of Altai (during the last third of the XX — first twenty years of the XXI centuries) and their publication is considered. The author comes to the conclusion that the nature of this work should be characterized as focal and unsystematic. The work also reveals the creative activity of the carriers and propagandists of this genre — the leading Altai harmonica players — performers of local ditties.