Vanuysheva K.V.

Key words: letters, history of Russian archaeology, province.
The article studies the private correspondence which illustrates the history of archaeology in the Urals region. The author analyzes letters written by amateur archaeologists in the Vyatka and Perm provinces during the period from the end of the 19th c. to the 1920-s and identifies several groups of information concerning science in the Urals during the period in question.