Within the framework of the grant project No. AP08856108 “The place of family rites in the context of the theory of intangible heritage (on the example of Western Kazakhstan)” (Dr. Beknazarov R.A.), funded by the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan in August of this year, Professor of the Department of History and Law, Ph.D. Zhaskairat Tlekkabylovich Yernazarov together with colleagues from St. Petersburg, Ph.D., senior researcher at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Inga Vladimirovna Stasevich and the Russian Ethnographic Museum in the person of Larisa Fedorovna Popova took part in an ethnographic expedition in the Zhyloy district of Atyrau region. The purpose of the ethnographic expedition was to describe the current state of the Kazakh family ritual of Western Kazakhstan as a result of historical development in a complex synthesis of its traditional basis and modernized components. Conducting ethnographic field research allowed to expand the necessary database, allowed to create an objective picture of the structure and content of modern family rituals of Western Kazakhs, to understand the directions and results of modernization in this sphere of culture, helped in identifying assessments regarding ritual realities, fixing the forms of the traditional component in the complex of family rituals. The collected and analyzed materials on the family ritual of the Kazakhs of Western Kazakhstan will be introduced into a wide scientific circulation, will be used in writing courses of lectures on ethnography, seminar programs, can form the basis of interactive museum programs, and will also be useful in publishing articles and monographs.