Abstract
During his approximately fifteen-year-long appealing to the members of Czechoslovak ethnographic community, Otakar Nahodil attempted to open a "research window" at least within the dimensions of the then Socialist camp with the emphasis on the practice of Soviet ethnographers. In accordance with his opinion, which was based on the idea of regional closed nature of research conducted by Czechoslovak ethnographers, he tried to break this closed nature by advancing Soviet ethnographic science.