Po sledam predkov sakha v Tsentral'noy Azii i v yuge Sibiri

Monografiya posvyashchena probleme etnogeneza naroda sakha, poiskam etnicheskikh predkov sakha sredi plemen Tsentral'noy Azii i v yuge Sibiri v epokhu srednevekov'ya. Poetomu ona nachinaetsya s vvodnoy chasti, gde privoditsya istoriografiya izucheniya problemy, rasselenie sakha i formirovanie rodovogo sostava v XVII-XIX vv. Poisk predkov sakha privodit k eniseyskim kirgizam, kurykanam, boma-alatam, kypchakam i kimakam, naymanam i kereitam. Podvergayutsya nauchnomu izucheniyu skifo-sibirskiy substrat, etnicheskie svyazi sakha s lesnymi narodami Bargudzhin-tukuma XIII v., uchastie mongoloyazychnogo komponenta i fol'klornye svedeniya o legendarnykh plemenakh - predkakh sakha. Privodyatsya istoriograficheskie svedeniya po izucheniyu etnogeneza sakha i srednevekovykh plemen Tsentral'noy Azii i Sibiri, svedeniya kitayskikh i arabo-persidskikh istochnikov, arkheologicheskie dannye i lingvisticheskie materialy, etnograficheskie materialy i etnicheskie paralleli s sosednimi narodami, odnovremenno izuchayutsya voprosy proiskhozhdeniya srednevekovykh i sovremennykh rodstvennykh sakha tyurko-mongol'skikh etnosov.