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This article draws upon a basic and experimental way of data analysis on local traditional culture gleaned in the province of Smolensk, the gateway to south-west of the capital Moscow geopolitically,culturally and folkloristically. As is well known, the oblast’ Smolensk has enjoyed a considerable folkloric and cultural repository from which both researchers and students learn and deepen their interest. Since the dismemberment of the former USSR, thousands of archival materials,including folklore materials, have been opened to the public. Due to several grounds-breaking efforts and research on archives by Western and Russian scholars, we now are able to get access to those valuable scholarly materials, and even create Web-based data base (DB) in order to get public awareness, share information and essentially enrich our understanding of Russia, Russian culture,and the Russians. To this end, this experimental study focuses on the province of Smolensk, Rukhan‘and Ershich’ in particular, and both villages are the locality I conducted on folklore expedition in 2009 summer. Though materials and cited passages on this paper are not encompassing all on a heading from encyclopedic references, it presents a recommendable approach on which further research can be based
