Soviet folklorists record 20,000-line Buryat version of Geser (Abay Geser khübüün) performed by uliger (epic bard) Pyotr Tushinlov and others, preserving Central Asian shamanic folklore—heavenly marriages, demon battles (manggad), spirit horse messengers—overlaid with Buddhist cosmology. The transcription saves material from Stalinist purges targeting Buryat shamans and cultural elders, encoding pre-collectivization nomadic pastoral knowledge.

The Buryat Geser recordings fueled mid-century Buryat-language poetry (Tsyrendashi Dorzhiev, Dondok Ulzytuev) that adapted uliger's oral formulas—parallelism, triple iteration, spirit-journey frames—into socialist realist verse while encrypting suppressed shamanic folk motifs under ideological cover. The epic's publication in Russian translation (1950s) influenced Soviet poets (Olga Berggolts) seeking 'folk authenticity' against state formalism. Geser demonstrates how epic folklore, recorded by Soviet ethnographers with nationalist agendas, becomes double-coded material for dissident poetic resistance.