TURKESTAN COLLECTION IS A WRITTEN SOURCE OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF CENTRAL ASIAN TURKS IN THE 19 TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article analyzes about the collection of Turkestan, which is the written source of the cultural heritage of Central Asian Turks in the 19th century. Leafing through the pages of the collection the volume after volume, we can restore the entire life of the region in detail on the state of socio-economic development, the study of the productive forces, the rich resources to the study of the historical past, life, traditions, customs and character of the people who inhabited the region, the theatre of military events, conquests and liberation wars, as well as get acquainted with the research works and scientific expeditions of the outstanding geographers, ethnographers, historians: N.M.Przhewalski, I.V.Mushketov, N.A.Severtsov, N.A.Maeva, V.F.Oshanina, AP Fedchenko and others.