The article summarizes some of the results of field and archival research by scientists - historians, ethnographers, art historians, folklorists of the Old Believers of the chapel concord inhabiting the vast region of the Yenisei basin. Expeditionary and cameral study was carried out during 2016 - 2020 and gave tangible results in the form of monographs that have already been published, individual issues of journals devoted to that topic, and several dozen articles that reveal the unique degree of preservation of traditions and the active development of innovations in the material and spiritual culture of the Old Believers' phenomenon.