On intellectual and creative components of the Buryat national character

The problem of the Buryat national character arouses constant interest, but is insufficiently studied, especially at the theoretical level and in its modern manifestations. This also concerns the intellectual and creative components of the character, which re-quires the deep insight into the everyday life of the ethnic group rather than description of the elements of material culture, customs, rituals, etc. The most detailed and objective descriptions of these traits of the Buryat character belong to N. A. Bestuzhev, this is due to the length of his stay in Buryatia, close acquaintance with the life of aborigines, genuine cognition interest in them, the absence of any bias. Interesting remarks about their thirst for knowledge were made in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. Individual observations allow us to trace the transformation of some intellectual and creative abilities of the Buryats in the post-Soviet period. National novels as a whole, and the works of the writer Ch. Tsydendambaev, who created the image of the professional scientist D. Banzarov in particular, made a great contribution to the artistic understanding of this component of the Buryat character. Thus, the works of a number of authors of the 19th — early 20th centuries, as well as of the Buryat novelists objectified the important features of the intellectual and creative potential of the Buryat character